Michael Urie took his bows tonight after the opening night of his one-man “Buyer & Cellar” comedy at the Westport Country Playhouse and then invited the team behind him to join in the standing ovation. Pictured (l-r) Jonathan Tolins, playwright; Stephen Brackett, director, Urie, and Hannah Woodward, production stage manager. Urie went out into the audience to bring Tolins and Brackett on stage and beckoned Woodward from the wings. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

“Buyer & Cellar,” the critically acclaimed off-Broadway hit, opened tonight at the Westport Country Playhouse featuring Michael Urie, who originated the role and is the sole performer in the one-act play. Urie is known to many for his role as Marc St. James on the award-winning television series “Ugly Betty.” Pictured (l-r)  Mark Lamos, Westport Country Playhouse artistic director, Jonathan Tolins, “Buyer & Cellar” author, and Ted Snowden, co-producer. In the show, Urie plays Alex, an actor who works in Barbra Streisand’s basement, and Barry, his boyfriend who’s worked up about the star’s relationship to her hometown, Brooklyn. “Buyer & Cellar” runs through July 3. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Michael Urie, star of “Buyer & Cellar,” the hit comedy that opened tonight at the Westport Country Playhouse, chats afterward with Joyce Hergenhan of Fairfield, production sponsor and member of the Playhouse board of directors. Hergenham, a retired General Electric executive and former journalist, supports numerous civic and academic institutions, including her alma mater, Syracuse University, where she is a life trustee of its board and a member of the advisory board to Syracuse’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

The Westport Country Playhouse announced today that its 2016 Fundraising Gala on Monday, Sept. 19 will celebrate the Broadway musical composing team of lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe.

Honorees: Jill and Alexl Dimitrief, David Paul Morris/Bloomberg photo

Titled “The Night They Invented Champagne: Celebrating Lerner & Loewe,” it will serve as a springboard for the Playhouse’s October production of Lerner & Lowe’s “Camelot.”

The production, described by the Playhouse as “a freshly inventive take on the classic musical,” will be directed by Mark Lamos, Playhouse artistic director.

In addition to “Camelot,” Lerner and Loewe composed the acclaimed Broadway musicals “My Fair Lady,” “Brigadoon,” “Paint Your Wagon,” and “Gigi,” from which the gala’s title song, “The Night They Invented Champagne,” originated.

The Westport Library with community partner the Barnard Club of Connecticut tonight presented author and former Westporter Cathleen Schine. She talked about her latest book, “They May Not Mean To, But They Do,” which she described as a story about aging. Schine, whose books include best-seller “The Three Weissmanns of Westport,” published in February 2010, said of her high school education in Westport: “I got a very good education at Staples even though I skipped some classes or tests.” (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

Jesus Carrasquillo and Nicholas Mailloux, both of Manchester (Mailloux is co-chairman of Bank of America Employees LGBT Pride) were among guests tonight at the Westport Country Playhouse’s LGBT Night Out before a performance of “Buyer & Cellar,” the original, award-winning, Off-Broadway comedy production starring Michael Urie. In the one-man show, he plays Alex, an actor who works in Barbra Streisand’s basement, and Barry, his boyfriend who’s worked up about the star’s relationship to her hometown, Brooklyn. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Helen Klisser During for WestportNow.com

Barbra Joan Streetsand performed her impersonation of Barbra Streisand at the Westport Country Playhouse’s LGBT Night Out tonight before a performance of “Buyer & Cellar,” the original, award-winning, Off-Broadway comedy production starring Michael Urie (TV’s “Ugly Betty”). Streetsand has been doing the impression since 1992, winning regional awards. “Buyer & Cellar” runs through July 3. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Helen Klisser During for WestportNow.com

Some of the guests tonight at the Westport Country Playhouse’s LGBT Night Out before a performance of “Buyer & Cellar,” the original, award-winning, Off-Broadway comedy production starring Michael Urie. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Helen Klisser During for WestportNow.com

By Susan Granger

After the endearingly forgetful blue tang won our hearts in “Finding Nemo” (2003), Dory deserved “Finding Dory,” a feature film of her own,

“Hi, I’m Dory. I suffer from short-term memory loss” is the way she sweetly introduces herself.

Years ago, Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres) became separated from her parents (voiced by Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy), but she suddenly remembers something about Monterey, Calif.

“I can’t find them on my own. I’ll forget,” Dory says, sorrowfully.