'Best Man' bags Schoenfeld

The incoming Broadway revival of "Gore Vidal's The Most Effective Guy" has reserved the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater for just about any March start, with thesps Jefferson Mays, Dakin Matthews and Donna Hanover all signed onto join the cast. Mays, who acquired a Tony for his perf in 2003 outing "I am My Own, Personal Wife," may have a businessman inside the play in regards to the behind-the-moments machinations inside a national political convention. Matthews ("Henry IV") is aboard just like a senator, while Hanover -- the actress and tv journo proven to Gothamites as Rudolph Giuliani's ex -- may have a reporter. Stars sign up for a starry cast that already includes James Earl Manley, Candice Bergen, John Larroquette, Eric McCormack and Angela Lansbury. Michael Wilson ("The Orphans' Home Cycle") helms. "Best Guy" moves to the Rialto venue potential vacated by short-were living tuner "Bonnie and Clyde." Both "Bonnie," which shuts 12 ,. 30, and "Best Guy" are produced by Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel, while using duo also among the producers backing a completely new version of "Best Guy" following their participation a young Broadway staging in 2000. Latest version in the 1960 Vidal Play begins previews March 6 before an April 1 opening. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com