Casting Complete for Signature's The Trip to Bountiful, Running Nov. 15-Jan. 8
By: BWW News Desk Oct. 18, 2005
Harris Yulin (who acted in Hedda Gabler, The Price and others) will helm the piece, whose protagonist is Carrie Watts (Smith), who "longs to return to her childhood home of Bountiful, TX, where she hasn't been in 30 years. Despite her failing health, she grows more determined to escape from the tiny Houston apartment she shares with her soft-spoken son and watchful daughter-in-law (Foote). Finally she gets her chance to head homeward, and it is the journey of a lifetime," according to production notes.
Foote's New York credits include A Little Family Business, The Day Emily Married, The Carpetbagger's Children (also penned by her father Horton Foote), The Last of the Thortons, Laura Dennis, Night Seasons and The Widow Claire. Smith received Tony Award nominations for her performances in Buried Child and The Grapes of Wrath. Other Broadway credits include Stages, The Iceman Cometh, and the original production of Tennesee Williams' Orpheus Descending.
The original 1953 Broadway production of The Trip to Bountiful featured Lillian Gish, Eva Marie Saint, and Jo Van Fleet (who won a Tony Award for her performance). A 1985 film adaptation starred John Heard, Rebecca De Mornay and Geraldine Page, who was honored with an Academy Award.For more information, visit www.signaturetheatre.org.
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