'Monty' takes off
Theatrical adaptation bows on Broadway
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Nathan Lane, left, Terrence McNally, Jason Danieley and Marin Mazzie. |
After the bow of the Terrence McNally/David Yazbek tuner, opening nighters boarded Gray Line double-decker tourista buses that were to zip them across town to the post-perf party at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.
Real tourists on the street yelled and waved as elegantly outfitted producers, investors and agents, crammed on the upper deck, blatantly ignored the "Do not stand while vehicle is in motion" signs and were forced to keep ducking traffic lights and tree limbs as they whizzed by in the night air. One bus somehow lost its way en route, provoking a mini-mutiny when several writers demanded to be let off and walk the remaining four blocks to the fete.
Inside the hotel, guests Regis Philbin, Polly Bergen, Richard Thomas, Nathan Lane and Frances Sternhagen mingled with McNally, producers Thomas Hall and Lindsay Law, helmer Jack O'Brien and tuner's stars Patrick Wilson, Jason Danieley, Lisa Datz and Kathleen Freeman, among others.
But it was hard to diminish the star wattage of Hatch. Dressed in a quilted vest over white T-shirt, the conspicuously dateless Hatch was asked what he was doing there. "I'm here looking for a husband," he shrugged.
