Lucky Guy recoups its capitalization

The world premiere of three-time Academy Award-nominee Nora Ephron's play Lucky Guy, starring two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks, officially recouped its $3.6 million capitalization costs as of the week ending 28 Apr 2013, eight weeks after beginning performances.

Directed by two-time Tony Award-winner George C. Wolfe, Lucky Guy opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on 1 Apr 2013, following previews from 1 Mar 2013.

The play, which was originally scheduled to play a limited engagement through to 16 Jun 2013, recently announced a two week extension thorough to 03 Jul 2013.

The play opened to mixed, but mostly good reviews: An iconic story (newyorktheatreguide.com); Little more than the sum of its anecdotes (NY Times);Long-winded and overly linear (NY Daily News); A Really fun, really entertaining eulogy (NY Post).

The production has recently been nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Play, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (Tom Hanks), Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play (Courtney B. Vance), Best Direction of a Play (George C. Wolfe), Best Scenic Design of a Play (David Rockwell) and Best Lighting Design of a Play (Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer).

Along with Tom Hanks as 'Mike McAlary' the cast also features Christopher McDonald (Eddie Hayes), Peter Gerety (John Cotter), Peter Scolari (Michael Daly), Michael Gaston (Jim Dwyer), Dustyn Gulledge (Dino Tortoricci), Deirdre Lovejoy (Louise Imerman / Debbie Krenek), Danny Mastrogiorgio (Bob Drury), Richard Masur (Jerry Nachman / Stanley Joyce), Maura Tierney (Alice McAlary), Courtney B. Vance (Hap Hairston) and Stephen Tyrone Williams (Abner Louima), as well as Paula Jon De Rose, Joe Forbrich, Tom Hammond and Marc Damon Johnson.

The creative team features scenic design by David Rockwell, costume design by Toni-Leslie James, sound design by Scott Lehrer and, lighting design by Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer.

Lucky Guy was originally written by Ephron as a screen play in which Tom Hanks was set to star.

Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy marks a return to her journalistic roots in a new play about the scandal- and graffiti-ridden New York of the 1980s, as told through the story of the charismatic and controversial tabloid columnist Mike McAlary.

From his sensational reporting of New York's major police corruption to the libel suit that nearly ended his career, the play dramatizes the story of McAlary's meteoric rise, fall and rise again, ending with his coverage of the Abner Louima case for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, shortly before his untimely death on Christmas Day, 1998.

Ephron knew McAlary from the days that they both worked at the New York Post.