Corporate Meetings on Broadway: Tom Hanks to make his debut!

Tom Hanks isn't just a great actor - he's a Lucky Guy.   At least he's playing one on Broadway!

With previews opening in March, Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks will make his Broadway debut in Lucky Guy, where he will take on the role of tabloid columnist Mike McAlary.  As he investigates the scandal and corruption of graffiti-ridden New York in the 1980s. Hanks will be joined by his former co-star of the hit comedy Bosom Buddies, Peter Scolari.  Scolari will star as columnist Michael Daly, and will be joined by Christopher McDonald as lawyer Eddie Hayes and Peter Gerety as editor John Cotter.

The cast will also include Michael Gaston (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg) as Jim Dwyer, Dustyn Gulledge (As You Like It) as Dino Tortoricci, Deirdre Lovejoy (Six Degrees of Separation) as Louise Imerman/Debbie Krenek, Danny Mastrogiorgio (Golden Boy) as Bob Drury, Richard Masur (The Grapes of Wrath) as Jerry Nachman/Stanley Joyce and Stephen Tyrone Williams (Harper Regan) as Abner Louima.

Resorts World Casino in NYC Opens Major Event Venue

New York City just added 70,000 sqaure feet of event, trade show and corporate meeting space.  While a plan to replace the Jacob Javits Center with a new facility in Queens has been hotly debated among public officials, developers of the Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct ready finishing off Phase II of its mega-complex to attract major industry trade shows, large banquets, corporate and association meetings and concerts. 

Having first opened in 2011, Resorts World is the highest grossing slot facility in the United States and is considered one of the safest gaming venues in the world.  It also recently opened a steak house and a fine dining Chinese venue. 

The New York CityMetropolitan Transportation Authority has been continually expanding transportaion access to Resorts World, and the complex, including Aqueduct Racetrack, is located within 5 minutes of JFK Airport. 


Photo courtesty of AMNY.

Broadway Update: Skyfall writer looks to bring Bette Midler back to Broadway

John Logan, the playwright responsible for the newest James Bond movie Skyfall and other huge hits such as The Aviator, Hugo and Gladiator, has his sights set again on Broadway and his next production is one-woman show based on the life of Hollywood super-agent Sue Mengers.

His preferred choice to play Mengers is super-actress Bette Midler.

 

Logan's first Broadway credit was Red, which received six Tony Awards in 2010, including Best Play. He also wrote off-Broadway's Never the Sinner. In addition to a new Alice and Wonderland play starring Judi Dench and Ben Wishaw, Logan is also writing the next two Bond films.