Match, the new Stephen Belber play, directed by Nicholas Martin, opened at the Plymouth Theatre, starring Frank Langella as a once-renowned dancer (loosely based on Alphonse Poulin, there in the audience) who is visited by a couple (Ray Liotta and Jane Adams) requesting an interview. (Are there character similarities? At the after-party at Metronome, Poulin told Playbill: “[Like the drama’s dancer], I knit. I teach. I’m gay.”) Poulin once taught the playwright’s wife at Juilliard.

Those seen at the Broadway event: Chita Rivera, Ann Jeffreys, Jim Dale, Renee Fleming (who arrived arm-in-arm with Langella), Leonard Nimoy, Edie Falco, Michele Lee, Joe Mantello, Kate Burton, producer Jay Harris, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, John McDaniel (conductor for Taboo), Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, Mandy Moore, Andrea Martin, Kyra Sedgwick, Bebe Neuwirth, and Rosie Perez. It’s clearly a Broadway match!