Chris Rock has performed stand-up in huge theaters around the world. He's cemented his place in film and television. The one thing the man hasn't yet tackled? The glittering theatrical world of Broadway plays. The NY Post has the details…
A very impressive ensemble cast has come together for Stephen Adly Guirgis' new play "The Motherf – - – er With the Hat" — hereafter known, for obvious reasons, as "Hat." [ED Note: Anyone else find it funny how prudish the NY Post is about that word when it has headlines with puns about butt rape whenever Bernie Madoff is mentioned?]
Bobby Cannavale, Elizabeth Rodriguez, the gorgeous Annabella Sciorra and Yul Vazquez will star in this ferocious play about love and addiction, which opens April 11 at the Schoenfeld Theatre…
Also in the cast is one Chris Rock… He'll be making his Broadway debut.
Apparently Chris blew everyone away at secret readings of the play over the summer. When I hear the words 'secret reading,' I imagine that everyone is dressed in Eyes Wide Shut robes and masks while a midget waiter brings out bacon-wrapped shrimp and gold glasses of absinthe. What? Okay!
So what is The Motherfucker With the Hat about? Is it a remake of The Cat in the Hat? Nope! (Also, DAD JOKE ALERT!)
"Hat" is about a couple — Jackie (Cannavale) and Veronica (Rodriguez) — who've been in love with each other since the eighth grade. After years of struggling with drugs and alcohol, Jackie has gotten sober with the help of his AA sponsor, Ralph D. (Rock). Veronica, however, is still in the throes of addiction…A source who attended one of the readings of "Hat" says… "The funny role is really Cannavale's, not Rock's. He'll get laughs, I'm sure, but it's a role for a real actor…"
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