What does The Producers' Matthew Broderick need to produce a perfect getaway among the rolling green hills of Ireland? A few chip shops, a cozy cottage, and (curiously) the smell of burning peat.
Matthew Broderick is going to take you on an adventure, one that he's been taking for most of his life. It's a journey to a magical place four hours outside of Dublin, Ireland, a seaside town called Killybegs that his parents discovered and passed on to him when Broderick, a native New Yorker, was 10 years old. Making his stage debut at age 17 opposite his father, Broderick went on to become a sensation on Broadway, winning two Tony awards. He became a superstar in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and, as an adult, he's starred in scores of films, including Glory, Biloxi Blues, and Election. He's broken all records on Broadway as Leo Bloom, the mousy accountant suckered by Nathan Lane's bottom-feeder producer in The Producers, and is now starring opposite Lane onstage in The Odd Couple.
Broderick reprises his role in the movie version of The Producers, along with Lane and Uma Thurman. But this summer, he'll be flying into Dublin with his wife, Sarah Jessica Parker, and their three-year-old son, James, following the route that his parents took so many years ago. They'll disappear into the world his folks fell in love with in the middle of nowhere, where they bought a second home and where Broderick and his family now have a home, too.

This is the same adventure on which he's about to take you. You'll fall asleep, if you're lucky, for the four-hour drive from Dublin to Killybegs, which Broderick admits "people may have never heard of." When you awaken, he promises, "your eyes pop out of your head," and this is what you will discover.