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Six Degrees of It's Only a Play on Broadway

We all know that Nathan and Matthew were in ”The Producers” together, but did you ALSO know that…

The cast of It's Only a Play recreates the 'Ellen Oscars Selfie.'
The cast of It's Only a Play re-creates Ellen Degeneres' infamous Oscars selfie.
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The cast of Terrence McNally's It's Only a Play has done a lot of work together. A lot. When we saw them all posing together in the above photo, we started connecting the dots of all the plays and movies and television shows they've appeared in opposite one another. So we decided to play the Kevin Bacon Game, and here's what we came up with:

(graphic design by Gary Burke)
(graphic design by Gary Burke)

Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick
• 1994: The Lion King (voice only)
• 2001: The Producers
• 2005: The Odd Couple

Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally
• 2004: Teacher's Pet (voice only)
• 2014: Guys and Dolls

Nathan Lane and Stockard Channing
• 2000: Isn't She Great?
• 2014: The Good Wife (episode: "A Weird Year")

Nathan Lane and F. Murray Abraham
• 2014: The Good Wife (episode: "Anatomy of a Joke")

Nathan Lane and Terrence McNally
• 1989: The Lisbon Traviata
• 1990: Bad Habits
• 1991: Lips Together, Teeth Apart
• 1994: Love! Valour! Compassion!
• 2005: Dedication, or The Stuff of Dreams

F. Murray Abraham and Terrence McNally
• 1971: Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?
• 1974: Bad Habits
• 1975: The Ritz
• 1987: Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
• 2012: Golden Age

Micah Stock and Terrence McNally
• 2013: And Away We Go

Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally
• 1995: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• 2007: Bee Movie (voice only)

Rupert Grint
• Was in the Harry Potter series of films (which we assume Matthew Broderick's children have seen)

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