ABOUT THE SHOW
Opening Night Cast
Dylan Baker (Archer Brown)
Nathan Lane (Charles Smith)
Laurie Metcalf (Clarice Bernstein)
Michael Nichols (Dwight Grackle)
Ethan Phillips (A Representative of the National Assoc. of Turkey Manufacturers)
NATHAN LANE (Charles Smith) made his Broadway debut with George C. Scott in the 1982 revival of Present Laughter (Drama Desk nomination). This was followed by Merlin with Chita Rivera, Toad in The Wind in the Willows, Some Americans Abroad at Lincoln Center, On Borrowed Time with George C. Scott and Teresa Wright, Nathan Detroit in Jerry Zaks’ 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls (Tony nomination, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Max Prince in Neil Simon’s Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Buzz in Terrence McNally’s Love! Valour! Compassion! (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Pseudolus in Jerry Zaks’ 1996 revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner at the Roundabout, Max Bialystock in The Producers (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and in London, the Olivier Award), Dionysos in The Frogs, for which Mr. Lane co-authored the book, with a score by Stephen Sondheim and directed by Susan Stroman, Oscar Madison in Joe Mantello’s 2005 revival of The Odd Couple, and Ben Butley in the 2006 revival of Butley directed by Nicholas Martin. Off-Broadway he was most recently seen in Terrence McNally’s Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams. In 1992 he won the Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. Credits include Trumbo; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Measure for Measure (St. Clair Bayfield Award) directed by Joe Papp; Luv, the Musical; She Stoops to Conquer; Simon Gray’s The Common Pursuit; The Film Society and Mizlansky/Zilinsky by Jon Robin Baitz; In a Pig’s Valise; The Lisbon Traviata (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards); Bad Habits; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Love! Valour! Compassion! (Obie Award) all by Terrence McNally; and Do Re Mi at Encores! In television he has received five Emmy nominations and won two Emmy Awards as well as a People’s Choice Award. Most recently he was seen as Alec Baldwin's shifty brother on 30 Rock. Mr. Lane has appeared in more than 25 films including The Birdcage (Golden Globe nomination, Screen Actors Guild and American Comedy Awards), Ironweed, Frankie and Johnny, Mousehunt, Jeffrey, The Lion King, Stuart Little, Nicholas Nickleby (National Board of Review Ensemble Award) and The Producers, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. He will next be seen in Swing Vote with Kevin Costner and Dennis Hopper, The Nutcracker with John Turturro and Elle Fanning and the documentary, Trumbo.
LAURIE METCALF (Clarice Bernstein) is an original member of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, now in its 31st season. Past Steppenwolf productions include The Beauty Queen of Leanane, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Coyote Ugly, Educating Rita, Libra and Balm in Gilead for which she received New York’s Drama Desk, Obie and Theatre World Awards. For the Geffen Theatre in LA, she received Ovation awards for her performances in Jane Anderson’s Looking for Normal and Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. She appeared on the television series “Roseanne” and “The Norm Show.” Film credits include Desperately Seeking Susan, Internal Affairs, Making Mr. Right, Uncle Buck, JFK, Toy Story, Bulworth, Scream 2 and Leaving Las Vegas.
DYLAN BAKER (Archer Brown) Broadway: Mauritius, La Bete (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), Eastern Standard (Theatre World Award). Off-Broadway: Sea of Tranquility; Homebody/Kabul; What the Butler Saw; That Championship Season; Pride’s Crossing; Wolfman; The Common Pursuit; To Whom It May Concern; Not About Heroes (Obie Award); Tartuffe; Much Ado About Nothing and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (NYSF). Film: Across the Universe; The Hunting Party; Fido; Spider-Man 2 and 3; Hide & Seek; Head of State; Road to Perdition; Changing Lanes; Along Came a Spider; Thirteen Days; Happiness (Indy Spirit Award nomination); Disclosure; Delirious; Planes, Trains & Automobiles and The Long Walk Home. TV: Drive; The Book of Daniel; The Laramie Project; The Pitts; Feds; and Murder One. Many thanks to my girls, Becky and Willa.
ETHAN PHILLIPS(Turkey Guy) My Favorite Year (Lincoln Center), Measure for Measure (New York Shakespeare Festival), Lips Together Teeth Far Apart (Lucille Lortel), Modigliani (Astor Place). Regional: Alaska Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Old Globe, Seattle Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Center Stage, Boston Shakespeare Co., Actors Theatre of Louisville , McCarter Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Westport County Playhouse. Films include The Island, Bad Santa, Man Without a Face, Green Card, Lean on Me, Glory. TV: series regular “STARTREK: VOYAGER” , “BENSON”; recent guest star roles: “BONES”, “CRIMINAL MINDS”, “VEGAS”, “NUMBERS”, and “BOSTON LEGAL”. This is for Frankie.
MICHAEL NICHOLS (Dwight Grackle) Broadway: the Tony Award-winning One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with Gary Sinese. Off-Broadway: Exit the King, Iphigenia at Aulis (Pearl Theatre). Regional: Alley Theatre, Pioneer Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Studio Arena and the Old Globe Theatre, among others. Television: “Another World,” “As the World Turns”, Days of Our Lives” and “General Hospital.” Mr. Nichols, a former Green Beret, is a graduate of the Old Globe Theatre/University of San Diego Professional Actor Training Program.
DAVID MAMET (Playwright) is the author of the plays Romance, Boston Marriage, Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award), American Buffalo, The Old Neighborhood, A Life in the Theatre, Speed-the-Plow, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Reunion and The Cryptogram (1995 Obie Award). His translations and adaptations include Red River by Pierre Laville and The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya by Anton Checkov. His films include The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Verdict, The Untouchables, House of Games (writer/director), Oleanna (writer/director), Homicide (writer/director), The Spanish Prisoner (writer/director), Hoffa, The Edge, Wag the Dog, The Winslow Boy (writer/director), Hannibal, State and Main (writer/director) and Heist (writer/director). Mr. Mamet is also the author of Warm and Cold, a book for children with drawings by Donald Sultan, and two other children’s books, Passover and The Duck and the Goat; Writing in Restaurants; Some Freaks; Make Believe Town; three volumes of essays; The Hero Pony and The Chinaman, books of poems; Three Children’s Plays; On Directing Film; The Cabin; and Wilson. His most recent books include the acting books, True and False and Three Uses of the Knife and Bambi vs. Godzilla, On the Nature Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business. His film Redbelt, is due out this spring.
Set just days before a presidential election, November, a new play by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Mamet, proves, once and for all, there’s no lower place than the highest office in the land, as the incumbent Commander-In-Chief must try to get a grip on such issues as lesbian marriage, Indian casinos, preposterous pardons and questionable campaign contributions, without losing his grip on the Oval Office.
Starring Tony Award® winner Nathan Lane as President Charles Smith, Laurie Metcalf as presidential aide Clarice Bernstein, and Dylan Baker as presidential advisor Archer Brown, November will reunite Mamet with Tony Award-winning director Joe Mantello, with whom Mamet collaborated on the Tony Award-winning revival of Glengarry Glen Ross.
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Category: Play, Comedy, Original, Broadway
Setting: A few days before a major presidential election in the Oval Office of the White House.
1st Preview Performance: December 20, 2007
Opening Night Performance: January 17, 2008
Final Performance: July 13, 2008
Total # of Performances: 205
Awards & Nominations:
2008 Tony Award® Best Featured Actress in a Play – Laurie Metcalf (nominee)
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Opening Night Cast
Dylan Baker (Archer Brown)
Nathan Lane (Charles Smith)
Laurie Metcalf (Clarice Bernstein)
Michael Nichols (Dwight Grackle)
Ethan Phillips (A Representative of the National Assoc. of Turkey Manufacturers)
Standbys: Amy Hohn (Clarice Bernstein), Richard Kline (Charles Smith), Greg Stuhr (A Representative, Archer Brown), Victor Talmadge (Dwight Grackle).
Theatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization (Gerald Schoenfeld: Chairman; Philip J. Smith: President; Robert E. Wankel: Executive Vice President)
Produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jam Theatricals, Bat-Barry Productions, Michael Cohl, Ergo Entertainment, Michael Filerman, Ronald Frankel, Barbara Freitag, Buddy Freitag, James Fuld, Jr., Roy Furman, JK Productions, Harold Thau, Jamie deRoy, Ted Snowdon and Wendy Federman ; Assistant Producer: Noah Himmelstein
Written by David Mamet
Directed by Joe Mantello; Assistant Director: Stephanie Yankwitt
Scenic Design by Scott Pask; Costume Design by Laura Bauer; Lighting Design by Paul Gallo; Assistant Scenic Design: Jeffrey Hinchee and Orit Jacoby Carroll; Assistant Costume Design: Bobby Tilley; Associate Lighting Design: Philip Rosenberg; Ladies' Wigs: Paul Huntley; Men's Wigs: Martial Corneville
General Manager: Richards / Climan, Inc.; Company Manager: Bruce Klinger
Production Stage Manager: Jill Cordle; Technical Supervisor: Hudson Theatrical Associates; Stage Manager: Neil Krasnow
Casting: Telsey + Company; Marketing: TMG - The Marketing Group; Press Representative: Jeffrey Richards Associates; Advertising: Serino Coyne, Inc.; Photographer: Scott Landis
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“EXPLOSIONS OF LAUGHTER!” – Roma Torre, NY1
“IT’S HILARIOUS! NATHAN LANE IS AS GOOD AS I’VE EVER SEEN HIM.” – John Lahr, The New Yorker
“1,000 LAUGHS!” – Pat Collins, WWOR-TV
“MANIACALLY FUNNY! NOVEMBER produces waves of laughter!” – Michael Kuchwara, AP
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NATHAN LANE (Charles Smith) made his Broadway debut with George C. Scott in the 1982 revival of Present Laughter (Drama Desk nomination). This was followed by Merlin with Chita Rivera, Toad in The Wind in the Willows, Some Americans Abroad at Lincoln Center, On Borrowed Time with George C. Scott and Teresa Wright, Nathan Detroit in Jerry Zaks’ 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls (Tony nomination, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Max Prince in Neil Simon’s Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Buzz in Terrence McNally’s Love! Valour! Compassion! (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Pseudolus in Jerry Zaks’ 1996 revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner at the Roundabout, Max Bialystock in The Producers (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and in London, the Olivier Award), Dionysos in The Frogs, for which Mr. Lane co-authored the book, with a score by Stephen Sondheim and directed by Susan Stroman, Oscar Madison in Joe Mantello’s 2005 revival of The Odd Couple, and Ben Butley in the 2006 revival of Butley directed by Nicholas Martin. Off-Broadway he was most recently seen in Terrence McNally’s Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams. In 1992 he won the Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance. Credits include Trumbo; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Measure for Measure (St. Clair Bayfield Award) directed by Joe Papp; Luv, the Musical; She Stoops to Conquer; Simon Gray’s The Common Pursuit; The Film Society and Mizlansky/Zilinsky by Jon Robin Baitz; In a Pig’s Valise; The Lisbon Traviata (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards); Bad Habits; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Love! Valour! Compassion! (Obie Award) all by Terrence McNally; and Do Re Mi at Encores! In television he has received five Emmy nominations and won two Emmy Awards as well as a People’s Choice Award. Most recently he was seen as Alec Baldwin's shifty brother on 30 Rock. Mr. Lane has appeared in more than 25 films including The Birdcage (Golden Globe nomination, Screen Actors Guild and American Comedy Awards), Ironweed, Frankie and Johnny, Mousehunt, Jeffrey, The Lion King, Stuart Little, Nicholas Nickleby (National Board of Review Ensemble Award) and The Producers, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. He will next be seen in Swing Vote with Kevin Costner and Dennis Hopper, The Nutcracker with John Turturro and Elle Fanning and the documentary, Trumbo.
LAURIE METCALF (Clarice Bernstein) is an original member of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, now in its 31st season. Past Steppenwolf productions include The Beauty Queen of Leanane, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Coyote Ugly, Educating Rita, Libra and Balm in Gilead for which she received New York’s Drama Desk, Obie and Theatre World Awards. For the Geffen Theatre in LA, she received Ovation awards for her performances in Jane Anderson’s Looking for Normal and Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. She appeared on the television series “Roseanne” and “The Norm Show.” Film credits include Desperately Seeking Susan, Internal Affairs, Making Mr. Right, Uncle Buck, JFK, Toy Story, Bulworth, Scream 2 and Leaving Las Vegas.
DYLAN BAKER (Archer Brown) Broadway: Mauritius, La Bete (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), Eastern Standard (Theatre World Award). Off-Broadway: Sea of Tranquility; Homebody/Kabul; What the Butler Saw; That Championship Season; Pride’s Crossing; Wolfman; The Common Pursuit; To Whom It May Concern; Not About Heroes (Obie Award); Tartuffe; Much Ado About Nothing and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (NYSF). Film: Across the Universe; The Hunting Party; Fido; Spider-Man 2 and 3; Hide & Seek; Head of State; Road to Perdition; Changing Lanes; Along Came a Spider; Thirteen Days; Happiness (Indy Spirit Award nomination); Disclosure; Delirious; Planes, Trains & Automobiles and The Long Walk Home. TV: Drive; The Book of Daniel; The Laramie Project; The Pitts; Feds; and Murder One. Many thanks to my girls, Becky and Willa.
ETHAN PHILLIPS(Turkey Guy) My Favorite Year (Lincoln Center), Measure for Measure (New York Shakespeare Festival), Lips Together Teeth Far Apart (Lucille Lortel), Modigliani (Astor Place). Regional: Alaska Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Old Globe, Seattle Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Center Stage, Boston Shakespeare Co., Actors Theatre of Louisville , McCarter Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Westport County Playhouse. Films include The Island, Bad Santa, Man Without a Face, Green Card, Lean on Me, Glory. TV: series regular “STARTREK: VOYAGER” , “BENSON”; recent guest star roles: “BONES”, “CRIMINAL MINDS”, “VEGAS”, “NUMBERS”, and “BOSTON LEGAL”. This is for Frankie.
MICHAEL NICHOLS (Dwight Grackle) Broadway: the Tony Award-winning One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with Gary Sinese. Off-Broadway: Exit the King, Iphigenia at Aulis (Pearl Theatre). Regional: Alley Theatre, Pioneer Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Studio Arena and the Old Globe Theatre, among others. Television: “Another World,” “As the World Turns”, Days of Our Lives” and “General Hospital.” Mr. Nichols, a former Green Beret, is a graduate of the Old Globe Theatre/University of San Diego Professional Actor Training Program.
DAVID MAMET (Playwright) is the author of the plays Romance, Boston Marriage, Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award), American Buffalo, The Old Neighborhood, A Life in the Theatre, Speed-the-Plow, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Reunion and The Cryptogram (1995 Obie Award). His translations and adaptations include Red River by Pierre Laville and The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya by Anton Checkov. His films include The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Verdict, The Untouchables, House of Games (writer/director), Oleanna (writer/director), Homicide (writer/director), The Spanish Prisoner (writer/director), Hoffa, The Edge, Wag the Dog, The Winslow Boy (writer/director), Hannibal, State and Main (writer/director) and Heist (writer/director). Mr. Mamet is also the author of Warm and Cold, a book for children with drawings by Donald Sultan, and two other children’s books, Passover and The Duck and the Goat; Writing in Restaurants; Some Freaks; Make Believe Town; three volumes of essays; The Hero Pony and The Chinaman, books of poems; Three Children’s Plays; On Directing Film; The Cabin; and Wilson. His most recent books include the acting books, True and False and Three Uses of the Knife and Bambi vs. Godzilla, On the Nature Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business. His film Redbelt, is due out this spring.
JOE MANTELLO (Director) Directing credits include The Receptionist, Blackbird, The Ritz, Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony nomination), Laugh Whore, Assassins (Tony Award), Wicked, Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Man of No Importance, Design for Living, Terrence McNally and Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking for the San Francisco Opera, The Vagina Monologues, bash, Another American: Asking and Telling, Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination), Proposals, The Mineola Twins, Corpus Christi, Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks, Blue Window, God’s Heart, The Santaland Diaries, Snakebit, Three Hotels and Imagining Brad. Mr. Mantello also directed the film Love! Valour! Compassion! As an actor he appeared in Angels in America (Tony nomination) and The Baltimore Waltz. Mr. Mantello is the recipient of Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at the Roundabout.
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