Cannavale & Sciorra to Pair Up in Everything's Turning Into Beautiful Off-B'way

The New Group will present Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's Everything's Turning Into Beautiful in Spring 2006. Annabella Sciorra and Bobby Cannavale are set to star, according to a production spokesperson.

In Everything's Turning Into Beautiful, which is being billed as a "musical story," Sciorra and Cannavale will star as two song writers facing their forties, failures and the possibility of new love.

Sciorra and Cannavale, both New Group alums, are an off-stage couple. Sciorra, currently starring on TV's Law & Order: Criminal Intent, has been noted for her work in such films as Jungle Fever, The Addiction, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Romeo is Bleeding and Copland. She appeared in the New Group production of Roar for the theater in Spring 2004. Her stage credits also include appearances at the Nuyorican Poets Café, where she worked extensively with writer/director Reinoldo Povod Cuba and His Teddy Bear, La Puta Vida Trilogy, projects with the Naked Angels and a performance at the Promenade Theatre in David Rabe' Those the River Keeps.

Cannavale appeared in last season's hit New Group mounting of Hurlyburly. His other theater credits include Virgil Is Still the Frog Boy, Noel Coward in Two Keys, Incident at 118th, The Young Man and the World, Chilean Holiday and Latins in La La Land. He has appeared in the films When Trumpets Fade, Gloria, The Postman, Night Falls on Manhattan, I'm Not Rappaport, Insomnia, The Station Agent and Shall We Dance and can currently be seen on the big screen in Happy Endings. Cannavale also had a recurring role on Will & Grace last season.

The New Group will kick off its 2005-2006 season in November with Abigail's Party starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and will then present the play opera The Music Teacher with a book by Wallace Shawn and music by Allen Shawn in February.