Kathryn Hahn Joins the Crew of Boeing Boeing

Date added: March 10, 2008

Kathryn Hahn joins Christine Baranski, Mark Rylance, Bradley Whitford, Gina Gershon and Mary McCormack in Boeing Boeing.

Kathryn Hahn joins the previously announced Christine Baranski, Mark Rylance, Bradley Whitford, Gina Gershon and Mary McCormack in the Broadway production of the London smash Boeing-Boeing, Marc Camoletti's classic sixties comedy of errors opening at the Longacre Theatre Sunday, May 4th.  Directed by Matthew Warchus, the show begins preview performances Saturday, April 19th.

Kathryn Hahn, who will play the flight attendant Gloria, is best known for her role on the NBC drama "Crossing Jordan." She has also appeared in the films How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton and the upcoming Revolutionary Road.

This production of Boeing-Boeing was hailed as wholly reinventing the play when it opened to ecstatic reviews at London's Comedy Theatre in February 2007.  The Guardian's Michael Billington raved, "Boeing-Boeing achieves a kind of delirium, taking theatre into the stratosphere."  Charles Spencer in The Daily Telegraph wrote, "I was in danger of falling out of my seat with helpless laughter... This is, by many an airmile, the funniest show on the London stage."  "***** Boeing-Boeing will have you mopping up the tears of hysterical laughter.  Mark Rylance dazzles.  This jet propelled production is the most deliriously funny flight of your life," raved Georgina Brown in the Mail on Sunday.  And the Independent on Sunday declares it simply, "Brilliantly funny....Absolutely shameless entertainment."

In Boeing-Boeing, an architect living in Paris (Whitford) has been successfully juggling three flight attendant fiancées (Gershon, Hahn and McCormack) with his housekeeper (Baranski) reluctantly playing romantic air-traffic controller as they fly in and out of his swank bachelor pad.  But when an old school pal (Rylance) visits, things get rather turbulent.  Schedules change, flights are delayed and chaos ensues in this whirl of mayhem and matchmaking.

Boeing-Boeing features a design by Rob Howell, lighting by Hugh Vanstone, original music by Claire Van Kampen, sound by Simon Baker, curtain call by Bruno Tonioli ("Dancing with the Stars), translation by Beverley Cross and Francis Evans and is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions/Bob Boyett, Act Productions/Matthew Byam Shaw, Robert G. Bartner, The Weinstein Company and The Araca Group.

For tickets and information, visit Telecharge.com or BoeingOnBroadway.com.

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