
Although it didn't last especially long on Broadway, the recently-shuttered play
The Nance will live again on film. Taped during special performances of the production that were added following its scheduled closing,
The Nance will air on PBS as a part of its "Live from Lincoln Center" series in 2014.
Written by Douglas Carter Beane (
The Little Dog Laughed,
Xanadu,
Sister Act,
Cinderella),
The Nance starred Tony Award winner Nathan Lane as a burlesque performer who played campy characters onstage, yet had to hide his own homosexuality from the world.
Lane's co-stars in
The Nance included Cady Huffman (
The Producers), Andrea Burns (
In the Heights), Lewis J. Stadlen, Jenni Barber, Jonny Orsini, and Geoffrey Allen Murphy.