Roundabout sets Broadway farce

The Roundabout Theater Company has skedded a Broadway run of farce "Don't Dress for lunch,Inch scribe Marc Camoletti's follow up to "Boeing-Boeing." The 1987 play is modified by Robin Hawdon and helmed by John Tillinger, who directed the show inside a well-received 2008 run in Chicago. Story follows Bernard and Robert, the 2 buddies whose antics also fuel Camoletti's 1960 outing "Boeing-Boeing," and also the farcical complications that ensue when plans for secret trysts collide. Play initially preemed inside a French-language version in Paris, where it were built with a two-year run, just before a London version that opened up in 1991 and performed for six years. No cast continues to be looking for the Broadway staging of "Don't Dress." In Chi the play starred Jeffrey Donovan ("Burn Notice"), Mark Harelik ("The Standard Heart"), Patricia Kalember and Spencer Kayden ("Urinetown"), amongst others. The 2 primary figures of "Don't Dress" is going to be familiar to comtempo legit auds in the recent manufacture of "Boeing-Boeing" that released within the U.K. just before landing on Broadway in 2008 and scoring Tonys for play revival as well as for lead thesp Mark Rylance. Design team for that Roundabout production includes John Lee Beatty (sets), Jess Goldstein (costumes) and Ken Billington (lights). Show will start previews March 30 in front of an April 26 opening in the Gotham nonprofit's American Air carriers Theater. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com