The Little Dog Laughed: Ari Graynor completes cast

Ari Graynor completes the cast for Douglas Carter Beane�s comedy The Little Dog Laughed which will open on Broadway at the Cort Theatre, on 13 Nov 2006, following previews from 26 Oct 2006,

Ari Graynor will play Ellen, the na�ve girlfriend of Alex, played by Johnny Galecki. Ms. Graynor made her Broadway debut in Brooklyn Boy, for which she received the Clarence Derwent Award for Most Promising Female Performer.

Directed by four-time Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis, The Little Dog Laughed will also star Tom Everett Scott, Julie White, and Johnny Galecki.

The Little Dog Laughed: A screen idol hiding in the closet, an ambitious male prostitute and his naive girlfriend, and a brash, driven Hollywood agent who can spin anyone and anything. Maybe. Now, darling, do not repeat a word of this, but what I heard is that...

The Little Dog Laughed opened to rave reviews on 9 Jan 2006 at Second Stage Theatre. The play enjoyed a four-week, sold-out extension, closing on 26 Feb to make way for Second Stage�s subsequent production.

Ben Brantley of The New York Times said the play was �The tastiest homegrown comedy of manners to hit new YORK in years - a tangy new fable of fame and its discontents, with an expressly theatrical energy that finds the verbal music and rhythm in Hollywood-style hypocrisy.� Mike Kuchwara of the Associated Press calls the comedy �Scathing, Scabrous, and Hilarious! Directed at high-speed velocity by Scott Ellis, it makes you laugh while it goes for the jugular.� Michael Sommers of the Newark Star-Ledger dubs the play �Wickedly Funny!�

The Little Dog Laughed is being produced by Roy Gabay and Susan Dietz in association with Second Stage Theatre.

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