By Ernio Hernandez
29 Oct 2009
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| Bobby Cannavale and Eric Bogosian during webisode filming. |
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| Photo by Monique Carboni |
The stars currently scheduled to take part in the four-team tournament include include Ian Astbury (frontman for The Cult), Bob Balaban ("Waiting for Guffman"), Bobby Cannavale ("The Station Agent"), Tom Colicchio ("Top Chef"), Billy Crudup (The Coast of Utopia), Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Doubt"), John Ortiz ("Miami Vice"), Julia Roberts (Three Days of Rain, "Pretty Woman"), Sam Rockwell ("Frost/Nixon"), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent), Julia Stiles (Oleanna) and Yul Vázquez ("Che"). (All names are subject to continuing availability, with more players to be added.)
To promote this event, the company will again launch a webisode series titled "Celebrity Charades Underbelly Exposed" to be found online at LABtheater.org. (Playbill.com got a peek at the first in the series; view it at the Inside Track blog.) Appearing in the online videos will be Eric Bogosian, Bobby Cannavale, Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Bob Balaban among others.
Eric Bogosian (The Last Days of Judas Iscariot) will again preside over the Charades, while between games John Patrick Shanley (Doubt) will host a live auction.
The evening also honors Time Warner Inc. with The 2009 Dave Hogue Award. The prize — presented for "inspiring commitment to new work and its leadership support of LAByrinth Theater Company" — has previously been bestowed upon Daryl Roth, Ira Pittelman, Madonna, Bennington College, George C. Wolfe and Carole Shorenstein Hays.
"Celebrity Charades: Jackpot" will take place at St Paul's Hall on 60th Street (at Columbus Avenue). For more information visit labtheater.org.




