LaBute’s ‘Reasons to Be Pretty’ Will Move to Broadway
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Neil LaBute’s “Reasons to be Pretty” will move to Broadway in 2009.
The play, about a man whose girlfriend leaves him after she finds out he called her ugly, has been running at the Lucille Lortel Theatre since May in an MCC Theater production directed by Terry Kinney. The world-premiere production will continue there through July 5.
Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, and Steve Traxler will produce “Reasons to be Pretty” in association with MCC Theater. The play is scheduled to reopen on Broadway February 13 with the original cast.
