Nathan Lane and Matt Bomer are shacking up. According to a report in Variety, the Broadway favorites will co-star with Linda Lavin in a new sitcom titled Mid-Century Modern from Will & Grace creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, with Ryan Murphy executive producing. The multi-cam project would be for Hulu.
According to Variety, Bomer will play an intellectually challenged character who is roommate to a smarter, more sarcastic Lane. Lavin is apparently playing Lane’s mother, who lives with the roommates in Palm Springs. James Burrows (Friends, Frasier, Will & Grace) is directing the pilot.
Sound familiar? Yes, Mid-Century Modern appears to be a riff on the classic ’80s sitcom Golden Girls, which featured a foursome of older women living together in Miami, Florida. That cast was stacked with Broadway favorites, too, including Bea Arthur as Dorothy, Rue McClanahan as Blanche, and Estelle Getty as Sophia plus TV favorite Betty White as Rose.
Mutchnick and Kohan have made their careers solely in Hollywood thus far, while Murphy was part of the producing team behind Broadway’s 2016 revival of Long Day’s Journey Into Night and 2018’s The Boys in the Band (which co-starred Bomer). Murphy also brought Broadway’s The Prom to the screen in a 2020 film adaptation for Netflix.
