Article: Wild card Nathan Lane. (actor)(Interview)

During the past decade, even the most casual Broadway theatergoer has encountered the comic whirlwind that is Nathan Lane. As Nathan Detroit In 1992's revival of Guys and Dolls; as a high-powered TV star In Nell Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor; and, most characteristically, In Terrence McNally's Lisbon Traviata and Love! Valour! Compassioni, Lane has been the hilarious heart of the Great White Way. Like that cowardly lion Bert Lahr, or like Zero Mostel - whose role of Pseudolus Lane assumes this month in the new Broadway version of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Lane has seemed so perfectly configured for live performance that the movies could only ...

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