In September 2009, an updated version co-starring Scott Evans and with choreography by J. Austin Eyer played a benefit performance at the St. George Theatre in Staten Island.
The play then opened with a new cast that included Reichen Lehmkuhl in May 2010 at the St. Luke's Theatre on West 46th Street, in Manhattan, for an open-ended run that concluded in August 2015.
Anthony Pinnunziato, a gay Italian-American from a large chaotic family, wishes to marry his boyfriend Andrew Polinski in a traditional Italian ceremony.
My Big Gay Italian Wedding premiered at the Actor's Playhouse on November 14, 2003, where it played in repertory with the musical Naked Boys Singing.
[1][2][3] Wedding was directed by Peter Rapanaro,[2][4] and featured a costume design by Chris March of Bravo's reality television series Project Runway.
The production moved to an open-ended run at the St. Luke's Theatre in Manhattan in May 2010, adding as co-star Reichen Lehmkuhl of CBS TV's The Amazing Race.
[8] In July 2010, Daniel Robinson, veteran of Broadway Bares, Hairspray and the film The Big Gay Musical (2009) joined Wilkinson on stage until November 2010.
[12] The show rang in this milestone performance with special guests Ilene Kristen from One Life to Live and Claire Buffie, the reigning 2010 Miss New York, whose platform is marriage equality.
In something new for the role, Sozzi, as Aunt Toniann, performed the original song "Italian Booty Shake" live during the wedding reception in Act II of the play.
[citation needed] Tabatha Coffey returned to My Big Gay Italian Wedding March 3–5, 2011 as a special guest in the show, similar to her run in December.