The Broadway show that reunited multiple Saturday Night Live alumni is getting a follow-up production.
Former SNL writer Simon Rich will reteam with producer Lorne Michaels to bring a new show titled All Out: Comedy About Life to Broadway. The show is a companion piece to Rich’s All In: Comedy About Love, which ended its limited run just hours before SNL50 began on Sunday night. All In director Alex Timbers will also return. (Rich told LateNighter that it was Timbers who had reached out to him about the idea of adapting All In for the stage.)
Like All In, All Out will stage multiple short stories by Rich, whose stories have appeared in The New Yorker and numerous anthology books. The new show promises “an all-star cast announcement” to come soon.
All In featured a a rotating cast that included past and present SNLers like Fred Armisen, Chloe Fineman, John Mulaney, Tim Meadows, Aidy Bryant, and Jimmy Fallon—who made his Broadway debut with a week-long stint in the play, breaking a house record for the Hudson Theatre in the process.
It’s a good bet that Mulaney will return for the new show, as he and Rich are close collaborators. Time will tell if Fallon returns for the companion play—or if Stephen Colbert might take the opportunity to score his own portrait at Sardi’s.
correction on the actors mentioned – spelling mistake it’s Aidy Bryant NOT* Andy Bryant
Emily, thanks for pointing this out. Fixed!