Roundabout sets Broadway farce

The Roundabout Theater Company has skedded a Broadway run of farce "Don't Dress for supper,In . 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 in the well-received 2008 run in Chicago. Story follows Bernard and Robert, the two pals whose antics also fuel Camoletti's 1960 outing "Boeing-Boeing," as well as the farcical complications that ensue when plans for secret trysts collide. Play initially preemed in the French-language version in Paris, where it stood a two-year run, right before a London version that opened up up in 1991 and carried out for six years. No cast remains searching for the Broadway staging of "Don't Dress." In Chi the play starred Jeffrey Donovan ("Burn Notice"), Mark Harelik ("The Conventional Heart"), Patricia Kalember and Spencer Kayden ("Urinetown"), among others. The Two primary figures of "Don't Dress" will probably be familiar to comtempo legit auds within the recent output of "Boeing-Boeing" that launched inside the U.K. right before landing on Broadway in 2008 and scoring Tonys for play revival too for lead thesp Mark Rylance. Design team for your Roundabout production includes John Lee Beatty (sets), Jess Goldstein (costumes) and Ken Billington (lights). Show will begin previews March 30 before an April 26 opening within the Gotham nonprofit's American Airline carriers Theater. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com