Alec Baldwin is Coming to Town
Leave it to Artistic Director Scott Behrend of Road Less Traveled Productions to thrill us with An Evening at Rockwell Hall With Alec Baldwin. Baldwin will read the Tony-nominated play Speed the Plow by David Mamet, directed by Scott Behrend, with Brian Mysliwy and Kelly Jakiel.
Regular seating goes for $40 or $55, but the private reception at the Burchfield-Penney with Baldwin and premier seating for the performance will set you back $175. Not bad for proximity to greatness along with a chance to help RLTP with this fundraising effort.
A lot of you may know Baldwin from his role as Jack Donaghy on the TV hit 30 Rock, but Baldwin is no stranger to Mamet, having played rolls in Glengarry Glen Ross,The Edge, and State & Main. Baldwin also starred in Beetlejuice, The Hunt for Red October, The Departed, The Aviator, and put in an Oscar nominated performance in The Cooler. Dark, funny and darkly funny, Baldwin has also hosted Saturday Night Live 14 times.
A veteran of the stage, Baldwin began his acting career with an award winning performance in the Broadway premiere of Joe Orton's comedy Loot. Returning to the stage, he has starred in Broadway revivals of The Twentieth Century and Entertaining Mr. Sloane.
The fact that he is a supporter of Road Less Traveled Productions confirms his dedication to the national theatre scene; Baldwin previously appeared for Road Less Traveled Productions in a benefit reading of the play Art in July of 2006 at Babeville.
In Speed the Plow, Baldwin stars as Bobby Gould, Mamet's ubiquitous everyman/anti-hero. Hollywood executives Bobby and his friend and colleague, Charlie Fox, have wheeled and dealed all the way up the industry ladder together; but the buddies suddenly find themselves at odds over whether to produce a cerebral art film or a sure-fire box office hit...a conflict that is complicated even further by Bobby's beautiful and idealistic new secretary.
An Evening with Alec Baldwin
Saturday, January 31, 8PM
Rockwell Hall @ Buffalo State College
www.ticketguys.com or 716.878.3005
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www.roadlesstraveledproductions.org
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meanoldman
the only thing i would find more" BORING" than an Alec Baldwin lecture, would be wasting my money on a buffalo bills ticket. what the hell, I'll just go to a professional boxing match, and pray a Sabres game breaks out!!!
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mybuffalo
"losser" 30 rock pwns
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BuffaloBloviator
I would pay at least $55 if Alec Baldwin was going to be giving a lecture on "survival-parenting in the age of political correctness".
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davvid
mind grapes
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EmpireOfLight
Think he'll give us the leads?
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