“Glee” stars Matthew Morrison and Jane Lynch, among other big actors, will join George Clooney in a benefit reading of Dustin Lance Black’s play “8,” the producers said Thursday.
The play recounts the trial that overturned California’s Poposition 8, which banned same-sex couples from marrying. Black, who wrote the play, also wrote the Academy Award-winning screenplay for “Milk” and narrated the documentary “8: The Mormon Proposition.”
Morrison, Lynch and Clooney will join a cast that includes Martin Sheen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Matt Bomer, George Takei, Rob Reiner, Campbell Brown, Cleve Jones, Christine Lahti, Rory O’Malley and Yeardley Smith.
Morrison, who also stars in the upcoming film “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” with Long Beach resident Wendi McLendon-Covey, will play Paul Katami, who sues to overturn Proposition 8. Lynch will play Maggie Gallagher, who is an opponent of marriage equality. Clooney will play David Boies, a lawyer who tries to defeat Proposition 8.
The cast will give the benefit reading of the play at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles on March 3. The performance will benefit the American Foundation for Equal Rights.
More information about "8" can be found here.
Morrison will also host the television special “Oscar Hammerstein II – Out of My Dreams,” which will air on PBS stations starting March 3.
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