The Royal Family stars Jan Maxwell and Kelli Barrett
Photo by Joan Marcus
Popular demand — before the reviews have appeared — is prompting a one-week extension of the Manhattan Theatre Club Broadway production of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's The Royal Family, now to Nov. 29. The comedy, now in previews, will open Oct. 8 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Tickets for the production, directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes (Doubt, Mauritius), are now on sale. Tony Award winner Rosemary Harris plays the actress-matriarch of a Barrymore-like American acting family in the 1920s classic.
According to MTC, "Follow a famous family of stage stars as they go about the drama of the day: choosing scripts, dashing off to performances, stealing kisses from handsome beaus. But what's this business about the youngest diva wanting to quit the stage for domestic bliss? Never, darling!"
For tickets, visit www.Telecharge.com; call (212) 239-6200 or (800) 432-7250 or go to Friedman Theatre box office (261 W. 47th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue).
Here's the schedule for the extension week (Thanksgiving Week), Nov. 23-29: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 8 PM; Tuesday at 7 PM; matinees on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday at 2 PM; Dark on Thursday.
