Taking place entirely during the opening night of a high school's production of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, OPENING NIGHT chronicles the on stage disasters and off-stage drama of a group of students, their drama teacher and a visiting B-list TV star.—Anonymous
Broadway superstars Anthony Rapp (Rent, If/Then) and Cheyenne Jackson (30 Rock, Behind the Candelabra) star in OPENING NIGHT, a comedy/drama that follows a high school drama club, their harried teacher and a troublemaking movie star during a single, disastrous performance of Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream.
Logan Joyce (Rapp) was once New York's hottest theatre director until a paralyzing fear of failure forced him to become a drama teacher at a Pittsburgh high school. Its hardly surprising then, that the opening night of his production of A Midsummer Nights Dream fills this former wunderkind with more than his usual quota of regret and anxiety.
Opening night, however, proves worse than Logan could have imagined. Not only must he prevent the on-stage disasters and off-stage drama of his high strung cast, but Simonia Dufrense, an eccentric, Shakespeare-obsessed student bitter that she wasnt cast in Midsummer enlists none other than the Bard himself to concoct a revenge plot against Logan so absurd that it could only be considered, well, Shakespearean.
As the show goes on as it must - Logans professional and personal crises come to a head when Eli Faisel (Jackson), an unhinged movie star, offers him one final chance to quit high school and re-start his career, forcing Logan to decide which life will truly make him happy.
