The Skivvies featuring Will Swenson | Get Low (Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz Cover)

6 Broadway Stars Sing In Their Underwear. Pictured: Wesley Taylor (Rock of Ages, Smash) performing a mash up of Robyn, Blondie and Carly Rae Jepsen.

Aaron Sorkin on His New HBO Show, The Newsroom, and His Style of “Musical Dialogue” | Vanity Fair

The trick with Aaron, which I think makes this the ultimate challenge is that you have to learn a Broadway play every week. We’re not walking around the corner holding a gun, going, ‘Look out!’ We’re coming around the corner and doing Sorkin, and that’s a whole other thing. And it’s Sorkin at 90 miles an hour, because there’s a musicality, there’s a rhythm to him. Dialogue that has to come out of your mouth, snap-snap—and not just actors talking fast. These [characters] are very smart people, they think fast and they talk fast, and those listening have to keep up.

—Jeff Daniels on Aaron Sorkin. (Also check out Sorkin On Set.)

The 24 Hr. Plays on Broadway

On November 14th, actors, writers and directors will conceive, write and rehearse six plays within 24 hours. This year’s celebrity participants include:

The Writers

David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole, Good People, Shrek)
Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife, Grey Gardens)
Lynn Nottage (Ruined, By the Way Meet Vera Stark)
Terrence McNally (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Master Class, Ragtime)
Rachel Axler (“The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” “Parks and Recreation”)
Laura Bell Bundy (Legally Blonde, Hairspray)
Andy Davis (“Let the Woman”)

The Actors

Cheyenne Jackson (Xanadu, Finian’s Rainbow, “30 Rock”)
Gabourey Sidibe (“Precious”)
Jesse Eisenberg (“The Social Network”)
Megan Fox (“Jennifer’s Body”)
Rosie Perez (“Fearless”)
Jack McBrayer (“30 Rock”)
Amber Tamblyn (“Joan of Arcadia”)
Billy Crudup (“Watchmen”)
Carla Gugino (“Watchmen”)
David Cross (“The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret”)
Diane Neal (“Law & Order: SVU”)
Greta Gerwig (“Greenberg”)
Jason Biggs (“American Pie”)
Jason Sudeikis (“SNL”)
John Krasinski (“The Office”)
Julia Stiles (“Dexter”)
Justin Bartha (“The Hangover”)
Kathy Najimy (“Hocus Pocus”)
Lake Bell (“How to Make it in America”)
Nia Vardalos (“My Big Fat Greek Wedding”)
Nick Swardson (“30 Minutes or Less”)
Rachel Dratch (“SNL”)
Sarah Silverman (“The Sarah Silverman Program”)
Tracy Morgan (“30 Rock”)
Woody Harrelson (“The People Vs. Larry Flynt”)

The Directors

Derek Cianfrance (“Blue Valentine”)
Josie Rourke (Donmar Warehouse artistic director)
Peter Ellenstein (Inge Center artistic director)
Thomas Kail (In the Heights)