UPDATE: Fish in the Dark will begin previews on February 2nd at the Cort Theater and open on March 5th, according to the New York Times. Rosie Perez and Jerry Adler are among cast members who have been added to the play.
Larry Davidwill follow up his disastrous-turned-triumphant fictional Broadway debut in The Producers as seen in Season Four of Curb Your Enthusiasm with his actual Broadway debut on March 5th, 2015 when the comedians first play, Fish in the Dark, opens, The New York Timesreports.
The Curb star and Seinfeld co-creator/head writer said the play was a comedy about a family members death, inspired not by The Producers arc, but by the passing of a friends father. David said he didnt plan on starringin the show, but producer Scott Rudin convinced him to take on what David said will be hisfirst stage gig since eighth grade.
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I thought it would be pretty cool to write a play someday, he said. I didnt think itd be pretty cool to be in it. Its not like I would go to the theater and look up on stage and say, I could be in that. I didnt think of myself playing the character, but of course I write characters very close to me.
There are about 15 characters in the show, and David described the one hell be playing, perhaps unsurprisingly, as somebody very similar to Larry David it might even be Larry David with a different name. No other decisions have been made regardingthe cast, howeverDavid did officially denyrumors thatJerry Seinfeld was involved.
Fish in the Dark will be directed by Anna D. Shapiro, who won the Tony for Best Director of a Play for her work on 2008s August: Osage County, and scored a hit in 2011 with the Tony-nominated The MotherfuckerWith the Hat, which was also produced by Rudin (the pair willsee their latest project, This Is Our Youth, open on August 18th).Fish in the Dark will run at a Shubert theater, which will be announced at a later date.
As for the return of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which hasnt aired a new episode since 2011, David said its still possible the hit HBO show willcome back for another season, but he wasnt about to make a decision right now. But if I did do another season, this play would push that schedule back, he added.
While the future ofCurbremains uncertain, David recently revisitedhis work onSeinfeldin a recent interview withRolling Stone, during whichhe recalled NBCs initial reaction to one of the shows most famous episodes, The Chinese Restaurant: Well NBC didnt want to run that show, and they changed the order that it was written in, David said. I think it was supposed to go much earlier, but they delayed it. They didnt like it. In fact, when I was called in for a meeting after that season, they said that they didnt want to have any more shows like that one. And of course, the very next season, we gave them The Parking Garage. [Laughs] So, so much for that.