That's a Wrap! Rupert Grint and Megan Mullally Will Not Extend in Broadway's It's Only a Play | Playbill

News That's a Wrap! Rupert Grint and Megan Mullally Will Not Extend in Broadway's It's Only a Play "Harry Potter" actor Rupert Grint and Emmy Award winner Megan Mullally, who play director and producer, respectively, in Broadway's It's Only A Play have not extended their contracts through the hit play's new end date, a production representative confirmed to Playbill.com.

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Rupert Grint Photo by Joan Marcus

As previously announced, the star-studded production of Terrence McNally's backstage comedy will transfer to the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre Jan. 23, 2015. Performances at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre continue through Jan. 18, 2015.

Grint, Mullally and Tony winner Nathan Lane will exit the production Jan. 4, 2015 (the original closing date). Beginning Jan. 7, 2015, Tony winner Matthew Broderick will headline opposite Martin Short. Replacements have not been named for Grint or Mullally.

According to Telecharge.com, original cast members F. Murray Abraham, Broderick, Stockard Channing and Micah Stock will remain with the show after its transfer. Broderick will be out March 14-21, 2015.

Tickets are currently on sale for all performances through March 29, 2015. 

Terrence McNally's It's Only a Play officially opened Oct. 9, following previews that began Aug. 28. Click here to read the critics' reviews. The production is helmed by Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien. The play stars Grint as young director Frank Finger, Abraham as critic Ira Drew, Broderick as playwright Peter Austin, Channing as actress Virginia Noyes, Lane as television star James Wicker, Mullally as producer Julia Budder and Stock as the wide-eyed Gus P. Head.

Click here to read whether or not the starry cast of It's Only a Play read their own reviews

In It's Only a Play, according to producers Tom Kirdahy, Roy Furman and Ken Davenport, "it's opening night of Peter Austin's (Broderick) new play as he anxiously awaits to see if his show is a hit. With his career on the line, he shares his big First Night with his best friend, a television star (Lane), his fledgling producer (Mullally), his erratic leading lady (Channing), his wunderkind director (Grint), an infamous drama critic, and a wide-eyed coat check attendant on his first night in Manhattan. It’s alternately raucous, ridiculous and tender — reminding audiences why there’s no business like show business. Thank God!"

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