Broadway's 'Good, Night, Oscar' starring Sean Hayes Announces Cast

Sean Hayes
In
GOOD NIGHT, OSCAR

Marchánt Davis, Alex Wyse, Sam Bell-Gurwitz, Postell Pringle and Max Roll
join the company

A New Play by Doug Wright
Directed by Lisa Peterson
At the Belasco Theatre on Broadway
Performances begin on April 7
Official Opening Set for April 24
Limited Engagement Through August 27

Tickets now on sale

The producers of Good Night, Oscar starring Sean Hayes, one of this spring’s most acclaimed and eagerly anticipated new plays announced that Marchánt Davis (Ain’t No Mo’), Alex Wyse (Waitress), Sam Bell-Gurwitz (Good Night, Oscar in Chicago), Postell Pringle (A Free Man of Color), and Max Roll (Mrs. Warren’s Profession) will be joining the company when the show opens at Broadway’s Belasco Theatre (111 West 44th Street) this April. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Wright and directed by Lisa Peterson, Good Night, Oscar begins performances on April 7, 2023, and opens on April 24, 2023. The 20-week limited engagement will end on August 27, 2023.

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In Good Night, Oscar, Sean Hayes plays Oscar Levant: Hollywood actor, concert pianist, and the most subversive wit ever to appear on television during its Golden Age.

Previously announced cast members are Emily Bergl (Broadway’s The Ferryman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, TV’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Desperate Housewives”) as June Levant; Peter Grosz (TV’s “Veep” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm”) as the network executive Bob Sarnoff; Ben Rappaport (recent Broadway revivals, Fiddler on the Roof and Picnic, TV’s “Outsourced” and “For the People”) as TV host Jack Paar; and John Zdrojeski (Off-Broadway’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning) as George Gershwin.

It’s 1958 and Jack Paar is hosting “The Tonight Show.” He’s booked his favorite guest, a pundit as hilarious as he is unpredictable: Oscar Levant, who once famously proclaimed, “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity, and I have erased that line.” In 90 short minutes, Oscar will have audiences howling, censors scrambling, and - when it’s all over - America will be just a little less innocent than she was before.

Good Night, Oscar is produced on Broadway by Grove Entertainment (Beth Williams, Mindy Rich), Barbara Whitman, Hazy Mills Productions, Yonge Street Theatricals and Frank Marshall.

Good Night, Oscar premiered at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre earlier this year to sold-out houses and critical acclaim, winning five Joseph Jefferson Awards for Best Production of a Play (Large), Best New Work for Doug Wright, Best Principal Actor Sean Hayes, Best Set Designer Rachel Hauck and Best Sound Designer Andre Pluess.

The Chicago Tribune said Good Night, Oscar is “blistering and hilariously funny. A master class on the nature and value of satire. Sean Hayes delivers a stunner of a lead performance: moving, empathetic, deeply emotional and slightly terrifying.”

WTTW TV said Good Night, Oscar is “riveting” and went on to say that “Sean Hayes soars and is so compelling, and so real, that you might begin to wonder if Levant has been fully reincarnated.”

WGN TV calls Good Night, Oscar “brilliantly written and a must-see.”

The creative team for Good Night, Oscar includes Rachel Hauck (Set Design), Emilio Sosa (Costume Design), Ben Stanton and Carolina Ortiz Herrera (Lighting Design), Andre Pluess (Sound Design), Chris Fenwick (Music Supervision), J. Jared Janas (Wig, Hair and Make-Up Design), Stephen Kopel (Casting), and Jacqueline E. Lawton (Dramaturgy).