Left, Starla Fortunado; Maura Tierney and Courtney B. Vance will star with Tom Hanks in “Lucky Guy†on Broadway.The actors Maura Tierney and Courtney B. Vance will join the previously announced Tom Hanks in the cast of “Lucky Guy,†the Nora Ephron play coming to Broadway this spring, the show's producers announced on Monday. A bio-drama about the late New York City tabloid columnist Mike McAlary (to be played by Mr. Hanks), “Lucky Guy†is set to begin previews at the Broadhurst Theater on March 1, with open ing night scheduled for April 1. George C. Woolfe, a Tony Award winner for “Angels in America†and “Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk,†will direct.
Ms. Tierney, an Emmy Award nominee for her role on “E.R.,†is making her Broadway debut in the role of McAlary's wife, Alice, though she is no stranger to the stage. In 2010 she appeared in the Wooster Group's revival of “North Atlantic†and she has also starred in plays by Nicky Silver and Jon Robin Baitz.
Mr. Vance, a two-time Tony Award nominee, will play the role of Mr. McAlary's editor, Hap Hairston. Mr. Vance will return to Broadway for the first time since 1990, when he appeared in the original Broadway production of “Six Degrees of Separation.†(He made his Broadway debut in August Wilson's “Fences†in 1987.)
In addition to being Mr. Hanks's first time on Broadway, “Lucky Guy†will reunite him with Peter Scolari, who was previously announced to play the columnist Michael Daly. Mr. Scolari and Mr. Hanks starred in the NBC sitcom “Bosom Buddies,†which ran from 1980-1982. In it the actors played men who disguise themselves as women in order to live more affordably in an all-women's residence in New York.
