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UPDATE: Susan Lucci, Judy Gold, Tonya Pinkins and Jackie Hoffman are among the additional performers who will take part in Joy Behar‘s upcoming Off Broadway comedic play My First Ex-Husband.
As previously announced, the play, directed by Randal Myler (Love, Janis) at the newly renovated MMAC Theater on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, will feature a rotating line-up of performers, with the cast of four changing each month. A Behar-led cast of Susie Essman, Tovah Feldshuh and Adrienne C. Moore will be first up, running from January 29 to February 23.
The second and third casts were announced today. They are:
EXCLUSIVE, Nov. 21: The View cohost Joy Behar will lead a cast of Susie Essman (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Tovah Feldshuh (Broadway’s recent Funny Girl) and Adrienne C. Moore (Juror #2) in an Off Broadway production of her own comedic play My First Ex-Husband, beginning performances in January.
The play, directed by Randal Myler (Love, Janis) at the newly renovated MMAC Theater on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, will feature a rotating line-up of performers, with the cast of four changing each month. The Behar-led cast will be first up, running from January 29 to February 23 with an official opening night on Thursday, February 6.
Future casts will be announced at a later date. Behar said in a statement that the rotating casts of women “will keep telling these stories with laughter, grace, compassion and hilarious honesty.”
The official synopsis: “If half of all marriages end in divorce, then in My First Ex-Husband, women live to laugh about it….In the world of the play, you’ll meet women married to the mob, to their jobs, to their faith, to money and ultimately to the wrong man. Their stories are your stories…only funnier.”
The show is produced by Rose Caiola (Caiola Productions) and Cyrena Esposito (Red Letter Entertainment) with Associate Producers Mark Rubinsky and Tony Castrigno.
Behar, the longtime co-host of ABC’s The View, has appeared on stage in Nicky Silver’s play The Food Chain, and Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. She also wrote and performed in her own solo show, Me, My Mouth and I, at the Cherry Lane Theatre, and as a playwright has written Crisis In Queens, along with the short play Bonkers In The Boroughs, which was featured in the 2023 New York Comedy Festival.
