Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Patti LuPone to Star in ‘Moonstruck’ Studying

Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale will star in a one-night solely profit studying of Moonstruck. 

The real-life married couple will play Loretta Castorini and Ronny Cammareri, performed within the movie by Cher and Nicolas Cage, with a solid together with Patti LuPone, Stevie Van Zandt, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, Stephen DeRosa, Dez Duron and Mary Lou Rosato. Peter Sagal, the host of radio present Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me, will host and skim stage instructions. 

The profit will happen Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. on the Music Box Theatre with proceeds going to New York Stage and Film. Tony Award winner Doug Hughes will direct. 

This would be the first time John Patrick Shanley’s Academy Award-winning movie, which additionally received Cher an Oscar for finest actress, can be seen on stage. 

In addition to Byrne (Bridesmaids) and Cannavale, Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire) will play Raymond Cappomaggi, DeRosa (The Queen of Versailles) and Duron (Maybe Happy Ending) would be the crooners, LuPone (who final appeared on Broadway in final season’s The Roommate) will play Rose Castorini, Turturro (Severance) will play Cosmo Castorini, Van Zandt (Silvio Dante in The Sopranos and a founding member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band) will play Johnny Cammareri and Rosato (Once Upon a Mattress) will play the crone. The studying takes place on the theater the place the Broadway play Art, starring Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris, is at the moment working. 

The profit will assist New York Stage and Film’s summer time season at Marist University, year-round New York City programming, growing dance narrative programming, residencies for people and colleague organizations, awards and fellowships, apprenticeships for rising technicians and directors, and viewers engagement.