The Clare Boothe Luce comedy is about a gossip extraordinaire, Sylvia Fowler, played by "Third Rock from the Sun" star Johnston, who leaks information to Mary Haines, played by Nixon, that her husband is cheating on her.

The role of Sylvia was played by Ilka Chase in the original 1936 Broadway staging (it ran 657 performances) and Joan Crawford played Crystal Allen, one of the cosmopolitan women, in the 1939 film version. Jennifer Tilly will portray Allen in this version.

Mizrahi, who launched his line of clothing in 1987, also joins Oxygen this fall in a new 30-minute documentary-style series called "The Isaac Mizrahi Show," premiering in September, which features celebrity guests Sarah Jessica Parker, Sandra Bernhard, Bebe Neuwirth, Parker Posey and Mary-Louise Parker.

No stranger to show biz, the 40-year-old Brooklyn native also designed costumes for Liza Minnelli's show "Stepping Out" and Spike Lee's movie "Jungle Fever."

In his 1995 documentary "Unzipped" (1995), Mizrahi said he draws inspiration from such pop icons as Loretta Young in "The Call of the Wild," Elizabeth Montgomery in "Bewitched" and Mary Tyler Moore.

The Parsons School of Design graduate has also starred in several movies including "Fame," "For Love or Money," and "Life With Mikey," and two Woody Allen films, "Celebrity" (1998) and "Small Time Crooks" (2000).