To be enshrined at Sardi's, the famed West 44 Street restaurant in the heart of the theater district with its trademark caricatures of thespians and drama queens is such an honor, one actress I know sups proudly at the table beneath her portrait in the first floor dining room. Last Wednesday, a new face was added, that of Daryl Roth, producer of so many hits, Proof, Wit, The Year of Magical Thinking, and Curtains among them, the theater world congregated for this tribute could not believe it took so long.
But Daryl Roth took another view: This is the right time, she said, in between photo ops with Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin, the current cast of Love, Loss and What I Wore: Michele Lee, Debra Monk, Katie Finneran Tracee Ellis Ross, Casey Wilson while Carol Kane, Bob Balaban, Karen Ziemba, Michael Lynne, Tovah Feldshuh, and many others looked on. I was feeling old, she laughed.
Charles Busch and David Hyde Pierce attested to Roth's vital contribution to theater and her nurturing role in their careers. Jordan Roth, president of Jujamcyn Theaters was pleased for his mom, “the person and the picture,” he quipped, noting, “She works as only a mother can, creating a family of each production.
Meanwhile, a new Roth “family” was auditioning a few blocks away. “The Pride,” a recent hit in London by Alexi Kaye Campbell will have its U. S. premiere at the MCC Theater. Directed by Joe Mantello, the play about sexual identity and politics in parallel periods, 1958 and 2008, features a triangle: British actress Andrea Riseborough, Ben Whishaw of Jane Campion's Bright Star and Hugh Dancy, who performed in the Broadway production of Journey's End, and was so dashing as the Earl of Essex on HBO to Helen Mirren's Elizabeth the First
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