Broadway's The Heidi Chronicles Offers Free Year-Long Membership to MoMA With Tix Purchase | Playbill

News Broadway's The Heidi Chronicles Offers Free Year-Long Membership to MoMA With Tix Purchase In keeping with the spirit of art historian Heidi Holland, the protagonist of Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles, producers of the Broadway revival announced Feb. 9 that the production will offer a free one-year membership to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) with the purchase of two full-price orchestra or front-mezzanine tickets to any performance through April 16.

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Tickets must be purchased on or before Feb. 22. Those who are already MoMA members will receive a one-year extension on their membership.

Theatregoers can take advantage of this offer by going to Telecharge.com, calling (212) 947-8844 or visiting the box office of the Music Box Theatre at 239 West 45th Street and using code HCMOMA. Customers will receive a voucher with their order confirmation that contains instructions on how to redeem their MoMA membership.

The Broadway revival of Wasserstein's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play will feature "Mad Men" star Elisabeth Moss, Jason Biggs, Tony nominee Bryce Pinkham and Tracee Chimo.

Directed by Pam MacKinnon, who won a 2013 Tony Award for her revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the production will begin performances Feb. 23 at the Music Box Theatre. It marks the first Broadway revival of Wasserstein's play, which closed in 1990, and will officially open March 19.

In The Heidi Chronicles, a feminist art historian and her friends — male and female, gay and straight — mature from the 1960s-80s as they search for political, professional and personal fulfillment. Biggs (The Graduate) will play Scoop Rosenbaum, a writer who has a flirtatious friendship with Heidi, and Pinkham (Ghost the Musical) will play Peter Patrone, Heidi's gay best friend. Chimo will play the roles of Fran, Molly, Betsy and April.

Also in the cast are Ali Ahn as Susan Johnston, Leighton Bryan as Jill/Debbie/Lisa, Elise Kibler as Becky/Clara/Denise and Andy Truschinski as Chris Boxer/Mark/Waiter/Ray.

The original production also took home a 1989 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play (Boyd Gaines). Joan Allen, who starred as Heidi Holland, was Tony-nominated for her performance.

The Heidi Chronicles was first produced by Playwrights Horizons in 1988 before moving to Broadway, winning the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Hull-Warriner Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

The production will feature scenic design by John Lee Beatty, costume design by Jessica Pabst, lighting design by Japhy Weideman, sound design by Jill BC Du Boff, projection design by Peter Nigrini and hair and make-up design by Leah J. Loukas. Casting is by Daniel Swee.

The Heidi Chronicles is produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Susan Gallin, Mary Lu Roffe, Eagle Productions LLC, Stacy Jacobs, LTPS Productions, Gabrielle Palitz, Sally Horchow, Rebecca Gold, Ken Greiner, Grimaldi and WSProductions, Jamie deRoy and friends, Amy Kaissar, Suzanne Friedman, Ed Goldstone, Jessica Genick, and Will Trice.

Tickets are available at Telecharge.com, by calling (212) 239-6200, or by visiting the box office of the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th St).

Visit TheHeidiChroniclesOnBroadway.com for more information.

 
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