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David Hyde Pierce will topline a Broadway revival of 1934 comedy "Accent on Youth," part of Manhattan Theater Club's 2008-09 season.
Also added to the Gotham nonprofit's slate is an Off Broadway staging of Itamar Moses' play "Back Back Back."
Pierce, the Emmy winner ("Frasier") who earned a 2007 Tony for the tuner "Curtains," will portray a playwright whose relationship with his actress muse is at the center of Samson Raphaelson's backstage comedy. Daniel Sullivan will helm.
"Accent," which will play MTC's Broadway venue (soon to be renamed the Samuel J. Friedman Theater) beginning in April, has not been seen on the Rialto since its ...