Angela Lansbury and Friends to Salute Terrence McNally at Acting Company Benefit

A starry salute to Terrence McNally, Angela Lansbury and Friends, will be held on March 28 at the Longacre Theatre, with proceeds benefitting The Acting Company. The evening will be written and directed by Tony winner John Doyle, with musical direction by Mary Mitchell Campbell.

Joining Lansbury will be Audra McDonald, Alan Cumming, Tyne Daly, Edie Falco, Roger Rees and Raul Esparza, who will sing, share memories and recreate scenes from dozens of McNally hits. John Glover, Marin Mazzie, Joyce DiDonato, Malcolm Gets, Emily Skinner, Alexandra Silber, Bobby Steggert, Jason Danieley and Stephen Bogardus will round out the evening.

“I am thrilled to do this for both Terrence, who brought me back to Broadway in Deuce, and The Acting Company, for which I have worked for almost 40 years.” Lansbury said in a statement. The five-time Tony winner chairs The Acting Company’s Artistic Advisory Board and is a recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award.

McNally, the book writer of the forthcoming Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can, is a four-time Tony winner whose credits include the plays Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class, The Ritz, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Corpus Christi, The Lisbon Traviata, Deuce and Lips Together, Teeth Apart and the books for the musicals The Rink, Ragtime, The Full Monty and Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Founded as an offshoot of Juilliard in 1972 by John Houseman, current Producing Artistic Director Margot Harley, Kevin Kline and Patti LuPone, The Acting Company has been honored with a Tony Award for sustained excellence.