Bowen Yang, Ana Gasteyer, Jim Parsons, Rachel Dratch, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Busy Philipps, Mitch Silpa and Michael Urie are set to perform a live, cold reading of Beverly Hills, a soap opera written by TVLine founder and Spoiler Alert author Michael Ausiello when he was 13, in its New York debut.
The NYC performance is scheduled for Sept. 8 at the Newman Mills Theater at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space.
Per the description: “In the 1980s’ Golden Age of television (see: Dallas and Falcon Crest), back when Michael Ausiello was but a closeted gay teen doing his damnedest to get by in small-town New Jersey, he penned 517 episodes of an original soap opera called Beverly Hills. Miraculously, the future founder of TVLine and author of Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies saved every handwritten script, and for the past year has been staging sold-out cold readings of the episodes at Los Angeles’ iconic Dynasty Typewriter. Now, the daytime drama makes its New York debut with a one-night only performance to benefit the Ali Forney Center.” Tickets are available here.
Beverly Hills is produced by Jay Marcus and Ausiello, with casting by Henry Russell Bergstein.
The Newman Mills Theater at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space is located at 511 West 52nd Street. Beverly Hills is not a production of MCC Theater.
The Ali Forney Center nonprofit is dedicated to helping homeless and at-risk LGBTQ+ youth in New York City by providing shelter, healthcare, mental health services, job readiness training, and a 24/7 drop-in center to foster stability and independence.
