Baker, Harold, Etc. Round Out Cast of Suddenly Last Summer

Full casting has been announced for the Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' drama Suddenly Last Summer, starring the previously-announced Blythe Danner and Carla Gugino.  Suddenly Last Summer will begin previews on Friday, October 20th, 2006 and open officially on Wednesday, November 15th, Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46 Street).  This is a limited engagement through January 21st, 2007.

In addition to Danner and Gugino, the show will star Becky Ann Baker (Assassins, Titanic) as Mrs. Holly, Gale Harold ("Queer as Folk," Uncle Bob at Soho Playhouse) as Doctor Cukrowicz, Sandra Shipley (The Retreat from Moscow, Vincent in Brixton) as Sister Felicity, Karen Walsh (Let's Face It, Sitting Pretty)  as Miss Foxhill and Wayne Wilcox (Great American Trailer Park Musical, A Man of No Importance) as George Holly.  Mark Brokaw (The Constant Wife) directs.   

"Tony- and Emmy Award-winner Blythe Danner (Follies, TV's "Huff") stars as the formidable Mrs. Venable, an aging widow distraught over the mysterious death of her son. When the young cousin traveling with him, played by Carla Gugino (After the Fall, films such as Sin City), begins raising scandalous allegations, Mrs. Venable will stop at nothing to preserve her son's reputation," as the show is described in production notes.

Suddenly Last Summer premiered Off-Broadway on January 7, 1958 as part of Garden District – a double-bill with another Williams play Something Unspoken.  In 1959 the play was adapted into a screenplay by Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams. The movie was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starred Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift.

The Suddenly Last Summer design team includes Santo Loquasto (sets and costumes), David Weiner (lights) and Peter Golub (original music and sound).

Suddenly Last Summer will play Tuesday through Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m. with Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m.

Tickets will be available beginning Sunday, September 10th by calling Roundabout Ticket Services at (212)719-1300, online at www.roundabouttheatre.org or at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre box office (111 West 46 Street).  Ticket prices range from $63.75 - $73.75.