Douglas Carter Beane's The Little Dog Laughed to Hit Broadway During 2006-2007 Season
The Second Stage Theatre production of Douglas Carter Beane's The Little Dog Laughed will have a home on Broadway next season, a production spokesperson announced. A theater and dates will be announced shortly.
In The Little Dog Laughed, an up-and-coming leading man and his over-zealous agent become entangled with a sexy young drifter and his naïve girlfriend. The comedy focuses on how it is still taboo for movie stars to be gay.
The Little Dog Laughed, directed by Scott Ellis, opened to mixed to positive reviews on January 9. In his Broadway.com Review of the show, Rob Kendt wrote: "The strongest and most durable relationship outlined in The Little Dog Laughed, Douglas Carter Beane's brittle new comedy, is between a soft-edged actor, Mitchell Neal Huff, and his diamond-hard Hollywood agent, Diane Julie White. A professional bond that trumps all other entanglements is true to Beane's acerbic point about showbiz commerce and compromise, but I think the playwright also intends us to care about his characters' attempts to form extracurricular attachments. No dice. Instead, as he showed in his similarly undernourished and overpraised As Bees in Honey Drown, Beane has the wit's curse: a congenital mistrust of sincerity which can be as distancing as it is bracing." The show ended its extended run at Second Stage on February 26.
