Lane and Broderick Couple Up Again
Move over Sally Struthers and Rita Moreno—the Odd Couple boys are back. The last time this show saw a revival staging, the roles were rewritten for women, but now the mismatched male roommates of the original are making a return trip to Broadway, this time portrayed by Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. As much as these two have been working together, you’d think they were an actual couple, but for Lane and Broderick it’s just about the luck of hitting on an entertaining formula that keeps on working. After they wrap the film of their previous Broadway hit, The Producers, the pair will step into Oscar and Felix’s shoes for an August 2005 opening and almost sure-fire ticket-mover. Who plays Oscar?
Gay in The Flyover States
Here are two names you might not know: Darren Stein and Clint Catalyst. Stein is the gay director of the teen cult favorite Jawbreaker, while Catalyst is a queer, post-Goth author and performer whose book Cottonmouth Kisses was an underground literary must-read. And together they are on board with ABC and producer Jon Marcus (Party Monster) to create The Flyover States. Taking its name from the somewhat derogatory term used to describe the America that exists between coasts, Flyover will deal with a widowed New Yorker who returns to live in her Arkansas hometown, where she discovers big cities and small towns have similar dark sides. Call it ‘red state in denial about its blueness’ syndrome.