Megan Mullally & Patton Oswalt to Headline Broadway Revival of Lips Together, Teeth Apart

Emmy Award winner Megan Mullally and comedian Patton Oswalt will star in Roundabout Theatre Company’s forthcoming revival of Terrence McNally’s 1991 comedy Lips Together, Teeth Apart. Performances begin at the American Airlines Theatre on April 9, 2010, with opening night set for April 29. The limited Broadway engagement will continue through June 20, directed by Joe Mantello.

Lips Together, Teeth Apart takes place on the elegant deck of a beach house on Fire Island. A brother and sister and their respective spouses attempt to celebrate the Fourth of July with a gnawing uncertainty that makes their affluent habits and petty prejudices sizzle in the summer sun. Mullally has been cast as Chloe Haddock and Oswalt will play Sam Truman. Casting has not been confirmed for the play's other two characters, Sally Truman and John Haddock.

Lips Together, Teeth Apart was a long-running hit for Manhattan Theatre Club, where it opened at City Center Stage I on May 28, 1991, with Nathan Lane as Sam, Swoosie Kurtz as Sally, Christine Baranski as Chloe and Anthony Heald as John. The play ran for 250 performances, then reopened on January 9, 1992, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre where it ran for another six months starring Heald, Hillary Bailey Smith, Roxanne Hart and Jonathan Hadary.

Best known for her Emmy-winning performance as Karen Walker on Will & Grace, Mullally has appeared on Broadway in Young Frankenstein and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. She recently starred in the West Coast premiere of Adam Bock's dark comedy The Receptionist. Other film and TV credits include Fame, In the Motherhood, Party Down, Winchell, The Pact and The Megan Mullally Show. A recording artist with Supreme Music Program, Mullally is currently in development on Karen: The Musical, based on her Will & Grace character.

Oswalt played Spence in nine seasons of the hit sitcom King of Queens and has appeared in the movies Big Fan, The Informant, Observe and Report, Ratatouille and Magnolia, among others. A successful stand-up comedian, he starred in the Grammy-nominated Comedy Central special My Weakness Is Strong.

McNally and Wicked director Mantello (a Tony winner for Roundabout’s revival of Assassins) most recently collaborated on the company's Broadway revival of The Ritz at Studio 54.

The design team includes John Lee Beatty (sets), Tom Broecker (costumes), Paul Gallo (lights) and Darron West (sound).