Michael C. Hall to Headline Cast of Roundabout's Mr. Marmalade

Six Feet Under's Michael C. Hall is set to play the title character in the upcoming Roundabout Theatre Company mounting of Noah Haidle's Mr. Marmalade. The cast will also include Michael Chernus, David Costabile, Mamie Gummer, Pablo Schreiber and Virginia Louise Smith.

In Mr. Marmalade, adult behavior is interpreted through the characters Lucy Gummer and Larry Schreiber, two very smart children. Lucy has a precocious vocabulary, killer skills in the kitchen, a husband who spends too much time at the office and she's just four years old! Her imaginary world revolves around a too-busy businessman named Mr. Marmalade Hall who never has time for the child who adores him.

Hall is best known for playing David Fisher in the critically acclaimed HBO drama Six Feet Under, which recently completed its run. He earned a 2002 Emmy Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Drama Series for his work in the series. Hall previously appeared on Broadway in Skylight, Cabaret which was also a Roundabout production and Chicago. His off-Broadway credits include New York Shakespeare Festival productions of Macbeth and Cymbeline, Timons of Athens and Henry V at the Public and the Manhattan Theatre Club mounting of Corpus Christi.

Chrenus' New York stage credits include A Number, Finer Noble Gases, St. Scarlet, Golden Age and Thunderbird. Costabile is currently appearing in the musical version of Two Gentlemen of Verona in Central Park. A recent graduate of Northwestern University, Gummer's credits at the school included Arcadia, Three Sisters, The Laramie Project, House of the Blue Leaves, Ubu Roi, Songs for Dixie Kiminsky, Vag and the Boys and Twelve Volt Heart. Schreiber recently starred off-Broadway in Manuscript. Smith's Broadway credits include The Pillowman, Twentieth Century, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Tartuffe, Noises Off and A View From the Bridge.

Mr. Marmalade, directed by Michael Greif, is set to begin previews at off-Broadway's Laura Pels Theatre on November 1 in preparation for a November 20 opening. It is scheduled to run through January 29.