Gray makes a 'Night' of Broadway
Day-in-the-life legiter going to Beaumont
Show is headed to Broadway's Vivian Beaumont Theater this fall on a special two nights-a-week performance sked sandwiched between perfs of "Marie Christine," a new Michael John LaChiusa tuner that Lincoln Center Theater is also producing this fall.
"Morning," about a day in the Gray household, marks both an organizational and thematic departure from his previously staged efforts. He says "Morning" is the first time that the book (to be published by Farrar Straus & Giroux in September) and performance piece were written as one effort.
It's not clear if the show, which previews Oct. 31 and runs three months, will be eligible for a Tony. "It depends on whether the producers are even categorizing this as a play," said Keith Sherman, a spokesman for the Tony Awards.
Washington Square Arts, Gray's manager, has booked a national tour spanning Boston, Houston, Cleveland, Toronto and Providence beginning after the Beaumont engagement.
Meanwhile, a screenplay for Gray's 1997 work, "It's a Slippery Slope," is being put together by Gray and helmer Roland Joffe ("The Killing Fields," "The Mission") for a pic with Joffe attached to direct. Washington Square is raising the finance.
Gray is repped by ICM and managed by Mary Shimkin at Washington Square Arts.
