January 23, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULIET MILLS, MAXWELL CAULFIELD and JENNIFER CODY to star in benefit reading of Arthur Kopit’s 1962 play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You In the Closet And I’m Feelin’ So Sad
Real-life husband and wife actors Juliet Mills (TV’s “Passions” and “The Nanny and The Professor”, Avanti) and Maxwell Caulfield (Grease 2, The Boys Next Door) will star in a reading of Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You In The Closet and I’m Feelin’ so Sad to be held in Greenwich, CT on April 26, 2013. The reading will benefit The American Heyday Theatre Company, a fledgling regional theatre based in Greenwich. Also starring is Jennifer Cody (The Princess and The Frog, Shrek) Greenwich native Doug Plaut (Tiny Tim in Christopher Durang’s Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, the upcoming film Franny). The reading will be directed by Richard Sabellico (Gypsy, Annie, Sugar Babies).
The 7:30 pm reading will be held at the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, located at 1 Museum Drive in Greenwich, CT. Tickets, priced at $80, can be purchased online at https://www.artful.ly/store/events/826
Emmy winner Juliet Mills is best known as Tabitha on the long-running NBC day-time drama “Passions.” She received an Emmy as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Special for the mini-series “QB VII,” two Golden Globe nominations; one for her infamous portrayal as ‘Phoebe Figalilly’ in the television series “Nanny and the Professor” and one for her leading role opposite Jack Lemmon in Billy Wilder’s Avanti! Mills also received a Tony nomination for her work in Peter Shaffer’s Five Finger Exercise. She has appeared in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and She Stoops to Conquer, and has performed many times opposite her husband in the plays The Elephant Man, Dial M for Murder and George Orwell’s 1984.
Maxwell Caulfield is known to movie musical fans as the star of Grease 2. Best known for his portrayal of Miles Colby on the prime-time soap “Dynasty” and its spin-off “The Colbys”, he appeared on Broadway and in London as Billy Flynn in Chicago. He also appeared on Broadway in An Inspector Calls, and off-Broadway in Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Manhattan Theatre Club’s Our Leading Lady, the Public Theater’s Salonika and won a Theatre World Award for his performance in Class Enemy. He also starred in the critically acclaimed film The Boys Next Door. Additionally, he has co-starred with his wife across America in numerous plays, recorded several audio books and voiced Alistair Smythe in Stan Lee’s Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
Arthur Kopit is the author of Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad; Indians (finalist for Pulitzer Prize); Wings (finalist for Pulitzer Prize); End of the World with Symposium to Follow; a new translation of Ibsen’s Ghosts; the book for the musicals Phantom (score by Maury Yeston), High Society, Nine; Road to Nirvana; BecauseHeCan (originally entitled Y2K); Chad Curtiss, Lost Again; and numerous one-act plays. Current projects include Discovery of America, a new play based on the journals of Cabeza de Vaca; an original musical, Lewis & Clark (score by Donald Alan Siegal); an original musical, Tom Swift and the Secrets of the Universe (score by David Yazbek); and an original film, Miami. Besides teaching playwriting at NYU, Mr. Kopit heads the Lark Theatre’s Playwrights’ Workshop and is on the council of the Dramatists Guild.