Who: Sly Fox director Arthur Penn, playwright Larry Gelbart and cast members Rene Auberjonois, Elizabeth Berkley, Bob Dishy, Richard Dreyfuss, Bronson Pinchot, Peter Scolari, Eric Stoltz and Rachel York.

What: Opening night party

Where: Tavern on the Green

When: Thursday, April 1, 2004

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"It's been so long since there's been a big, fat comedy on Broadway that wasn't a musical. It was just a relief to do this." --Eric Stoltz

"My question was, why hadn't it been revived a long time ago, because it should have been! It's just hysterical." --Richard Dreyfuss

"This is a very different character for me. I actually haven't really played any prostitutes in my career. I played a showgirl, but a madam of a brothel--that was something I hadn't accomplished!" --Rachel York

"I wanted to do something that was very different from me, personally. I mean physically and vocally. I am stingy and greedy." --Rene Auberjonois

"Being a part of a comedy and being a part of a group of people who inspire me--I just knew it would be an adventure--and I wanted for this to be my Broadway debut." --Elizabeth Berkley

"I once said to Arthur Penn that I could spend my life writing this play, and it turns out I pretty much have." --Larry Gelbart on revisiting his script

"People say this play is very contemporary and very current, I just say it's eternal. There's no time limit." --Richard Dreyfuss

"It's a lot more consistent with the time that we're living in now. You pick up the paper and there's Tyco on the front page." --Arthur Penn on greed never going out of style

"A lot of the play's got to be played almost as if it's the way you would act if no one was looking, except of course they are looking. The way Larry's written it, it's really about the hideous, embarrassing motivations we'd never let anybody see." --Bronson Pinchot

"This play is an adaptation of a play that was first performed in 1604, and greed was a pretty old thing by then. I mean, as long as there are people and as long as we have pockets and purses we're going to try to steal from each other, unfortunately." --Larry Gelbart

"I expected him to be the least rapscallion and he's the most. I thought he'd be kind of dignified and underplayed, but he's a brat. He's a big brat." --Bronson Pinchot teasing Eric Stolz, who was within earshot

"We spend so much time together that strangely enough, we've actually fallen in love, and I'm here to tell you that Richard Dreyfuss is a tender and wonderful lover." --Eric Stoltz joking about his relationship with Richard Dreyfuss

"When I first started doing the role this time, I had to forget about the past performance because it wasn't working. I couldn't do it. I had to start fresh." --Bob Dishy on returning to the role of Abner Truckle

"The character really has not changed that much from my audition. When I first read her, I kept getting shades of Elizabeth Ashley, Mae West….and my Great Aunt Ollie, who's from Kentucky. She was a spitfire and sort of a Molly Brown in a way." --Rachel York on her inspiration

"In City of Angels, she played my secretary in one section of the play, and at one point she's under my desk--and I'll leave that to your imagination. And now in this play, I get to put my hand down the front of her dress, so I said to her when I saw her, 'My God, what next? How far can we go here?'" --Rene Auberjonois on working with Rachel York for the second time

"Arthur and I have known each other, I guess, for half a century. God, I never thought I'd live to be half a century old. …So that's a lovely aspect of this revival. We didn't have to revive our friendship. We just continued it." --Larry Gelbart on working with Arthur Penn

"I think there's license with my character to do the things that he does. I have to say that or otherwise I'm a complete felon." --Peter Scolari

"It's like playing good tennis with a great tennis player. It makes you better." --Elizabeth Berkley on learning from her co-stars

"It's a good ensemble. Everyone is mad in their own way. Everyone is slightly insane. This is a good play to bring out that insanity." --Bob Dishy