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Jane Krakowski heading back to Broadway for one-night-only play reading with Jim Parsons

Scott Ellis is directing the performance, which is to take place Monday at Manhattan's Studio 54.

By Karen Butler
Jane Krakowski is to participate in a one-night-only Broadway benefit reading of "Merton of the Movies" next week. She is pictured here at a celebrity event in March 2014. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI
Jane Krakowski is to participate in a one-night-only Broadway benefit reading of "Merton of the Movies" next week. She is pictured here at a celebrity event in March 2014. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo

NEW YORK, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Former 30 Rock actress Jane Krakowski is to co-star with Jim Parsons in a one-night-only benefit reading of the stage comedy Merton of the Movies, the Roundabout Theatre Company announced.

Krakowski previously appeared in the company's staging of the musical Nine.

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Scott Ellis is directing the performance of Merton, which is to take place Monday at Studio 54.

"It's the golden era of silent motion pictures, and no one loves them more than Merton Gill, a naïve store clerk from a small town in Illinois," a synopsis said. "After taking an acting class -- and determined to become a great dramatic actor -- Merton uses his life's savings to head to Hollywood. There's only one problem: he can't act. When a plucky young starlet and a manipulative movie executive see how inadvertently funny Merton's earnest efforts are, they cast him in a comedy -- that they tell him is a drama -- and hilarity ensues!" The ensemble will also include Brooks Ashmanskas, Tracee Chimo, John Cullum, Daniel Davis, Randy Graff, Matt Harrington, Mark Hartman, Richard Kind, Nick Mills, Rory O'Malley, Debra Jo Rupp, Peter Scolari, David Turner and Douglas Waterbury-Tieman. Each year, Roundabout produces a star-studded benefit reading to support its many programs. Past readings have included Intimate Apparel, Assassins, She Loves Me and A Little Night Music.

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