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News Sweet’s Flyovers Still Hovering in Search of OB Launch Although Jeffrey Sweet's Chicago hit, Flyovers, wasn’t able to find an available Off-Broadway theatre last spring, and plans for a fall 2000 launch haven’t materialized, producer Suzanne Golden has her eye on spring 2001. “It will definitely happen in spring,” she told Playbill On-Line. The project has spent long weeks raising money, though now producer Golden is concentrating on getting “the right cast and the right theatre.”

Although Jeffrey Sweet's Chicago hit, Flyovers, wasn’t able to find an available Off-Broadway theatre last spring, and plans for a fall 2000 launch haven’t materialized, producer Suzanne Golden has her eye on spring 2001. “It will definitely happen in spring,” she told Playbill On-Line. The project has spent long weeks raising money, though now producer Golden is concentrating on getting “the right cast and the right theatre.”

Sweet's drama, which won a Chicago Jeff Award last season as Best New Work, tells of a childhood bully who, a quarter century later, continues to oppress his now-successful former victim. In Chi-town, the play opened May 21, 1998, at Victory Gardens Theatre and had an extended run there to Aug. 2. William Peterson starred in the play, with Gary Cole coming in later in the run. Peterson has expressed interest in reprising his role, subject to his availability (he’s co-producing and writing a CBS-TV pilot).

Dennis Zacek, director of the Chicago run (and artistic director of Victory Gardens), will stage the play in New York. Capitalization for an Off Broadway mounting of Flyovers is estimated at $500,000, with Ralph Roseman serving as General Manager.

Last season, author Sweet enjoyed another Victory Gardens hit, Bluff, starring Jon Cryer and Sarah Trigger. A new play, The Action Against Sol Schulmann, is being workshopped at VG and eyed for a possible 2001 mounting. Mike Nussbaum, Tandy Cronyn and David Pasquesi took part in a June reading of Action, directed by Zacek. Author Sweet also penned The Value of Names and American Enterprise, and he co-edited the "Best Plays" Theatre Yearbook for more than a decade.

-- By David Lefkowitz

 
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