Entire London Cast of 'Misbegotten' Set for Bway Run

By: BWW News Desk Feb. 02, 2007

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The full cast of the acclaimed Old Vic production of A Moon for the Misbegotten will recreate their performances when the show moves to Broadway.

Billy Carter and Eugene O'Hare will reprise their roles (T Stedman Harder and Mike Hogan, respectively) alongside previously announced Eve Best, Kevin Spacey and Colm Meaney.

The show will play Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 W 47th St) for a strictly limited 84 performances only. Directed by Olivier Award-winner Howard Davies and produced by Elliot Martin, Max Cooper, Ben Sprecher, Nica Burns, Max Weitzenhoffer, The Old Vic with Spring Sirkin, Wendy Federman, Louise Forlenza, Ian Osborne, Thomas Steven Perakos and James L. Nederlander, A Moon for the Misbegotten will begin preview performances on Thursday, March 29, open on Broadway Monday, April 9 and conclude its engagement on Sunday, June 10.

O'Neill's only love story, "tells the shattering story of Josie Hogan (Best), a towering woman with a quick tongue and a ruined reputation who lives in a dilapidated Connecticut farmhouse with her conniving father, Phil (Meaney). During one long moonlit night fueled by drink and lust, Josie's softer side is exposed through her feelings for Hogan's landlord Jim Tyrone (Spacey), and two implacable souls reveal to each other the grief, longing and unrequited love they've hidden from the world," press notes state.

Billy Carter appeared in The National Theatre production of Translations, Bruises at the Royal Court and Macbeth at the Almeida. Eugene O'Hare appeared at The National Theatre in Translations, at the Old Vic Studios in The Next Big Thing and internationally in productions at the Abbey Dublin, the Lyric Belfast and the Strindberg Theatre in Stockholm.

Olivier Award winning director Howard Davies originally mounted this production of A Moon for the Misbegotten at The Old Vic last fall. He last teamed with Spacey on Broadway for the 1999 smash, The Iceman Cometh.

This production played an acclaimed limited 112 performance engagement at The Old Vic from September 15 to December 23, 2006 and set a record as the highest grossing show in the theatre's history. The Broadway production marks lead producer Elliot Martin's 3rd production of the play here, including his Tony winning 1973 production starring Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards that established the play's reputation as a masterpiece in the O'Neill canon.

The show will play Tuesday – Saturday evenings at 7pm, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 3pm. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com or at (212) 307-4100 beginning Sunday, February 4th. The Brooks Atkinson box office opens on Monday, February 26th. Tickets range from $102.50 to $82.50 with $26.50 same day student seats available to under 25's only at the box office with valid ID. Premium seats ($201.50-251.50) are available at all performances. All prices include a $1.50 facility fee.

Photo of Kevin Spacey by Retna Ltd.

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