{"id":29291,"date":"2013-09-19T10:42:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T17:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=29291"},"modified":"2013-09-19T10:42:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T17:42:32","slug":"spiner-and-mcfadden-in-the-last-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/09\/spiner-and-mcfadden-in-the-last-look-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiner And McFadden In The Last Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29294\" alt=\"SpinerMcFaddenTheLastLookBack091913\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SpinerMcFaddenTheLastLookBack091913.gif\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A mini-<em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> reunion will take place when <strong>Gates McFadden <\/strong>and<strong> Brent Spiner<\/strong> appear together in a play next month.<\/p>\n<p>The play is <em>The Last Look Back<\/em>, to be shown at the Ensemble Studio Theater\/LA<em><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->McFadden will be directing the play, which tells the story of the last day of <strong>Frank Sinatra<\/strong>&#8216;s life where a &#8220;pretty young intern embroiled in a presidential sex scandal meets the legendary entertainer \u2013 and so begins a lesson she could learn from no one else. <em>The Last Look Back<\/em> is a surreal pairing of kindred spirits and a hallucinatory comic ride about mortality, redemption, and the end of the twentieth century.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spiner will be taking on the role of Sinatra. <strong>Sadie Alexandru<\/strong> (<em>Mad Men<\/em>) and <strong>Tracey A. Leigh<\/strong> (<em>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy, NCIS<\/em>) will also be in <em>The Last Look Back<\/em>, which was written by <strong>Steve Serpas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The pair compared working in the theater with working on<em> The Next Generation<\/em>. &#8220;Probably the biggest difference is there&#8217;s lots less time spent on hair and makeup, which means most of the time I look like hell,&#8221; said McFadden. &#8220;I used to think our<em> TNG<\/em> craft services was lame, but compared with what EST\/LA provides for actors, the <em>TNG<\/em> craft services was high buffet at the Four Seasons. However, I do miss having a chair with my name on it. I found that helpful whenever I was feeling lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Probably the biggest difference, like Gates said, is there\u2019s a lot less time spent on hair and makeup,&#8221; said Spiner. &#8220;So, as you can imagine, I look much better. I&#8217;ve had to dye my hair gray, which makes me look surprisingly handsome and not a day older.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Last Look Back<\/em> will be performed on Friday, October 4, and Saturday, October 5 at 8 PM at the Ensemble Studio Theatre\/LA in Los Angeles. To purchase tickets, head to the link located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownpapertickets.com\/event\/454219\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mini-Star Trek: The Next Generation reunion will take place when Gates McFadden and Brent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2490,2435,6260],"class_list":["post-29291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-mcfadden","tag-spiner","tag-the-last-look-back"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29297,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29291\/revisions\/29297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}