Producers of the Broadway revival of A.R. Gurney's SYLVIA just announced that two-time Tony Award-winner Matthew Broderick (Brighton Beach Memoirs, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) completes the cast of the forthcoming production, to be staged by Tony Award-winning director Daniel Sullivan (Proof).
The producers also announce new dates for the show. SYLVIA will now begin performances on Friday, October 2, 2015, and open on Tuesday, October 27, 2015, at the Cort Theatre (138 W. 48th Street).
Broderick joins previously announced Tony Award-winner Julie White (The Little Dog Laughed), Drama Desk Award-winner Robert Sella (Stuff Happens), and Tony Award-winner Annaleigh Ashford (You Can't Take It With You).
The creative team will include scenic design by Tony Award-nominee David Rockwell (You Can't Take It With You, On the Twentieth Century), costume design by Academy Award-winner Ann Roth (The English Patient), and lighting design by Tony Award-nominee Japhy Weideman (The Visit, Airline Highway).
Tickets for SYLVIA are available for purchase online at www.telecharge.com or by calling (212) 239-6200.
Has your pet changed your life? Have you ever wondered what she's thinking when she stares up at you and tilts her head? Could she have the secret to understanding the world at large and your place in it? Or is she just more interested in how your shoe tastes? The world of a middle-aged New York couple is turned topsy-turvy when the husband brings home an exceptionally engaging canine running loose in Central Park in the hilarious and heartwarming comedy, SYLVIA.
From two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee A. R. Gurney (The Dining Room, Love Letters), Sylvia takes a wonderful look into the complexities of love and commitment asks what it truly means to be devoted to your partner...and how do you choose between the love of your life and man's best friend?
SYLVIA is produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, and Daryl Roth.
Matthew Broderick made his stage debut at 17 in Horton Foote's On Valentine's Day opposite his father, James Broderick. Off- Broadway: Torch Song Trilogy (OCC, Villager Award), The Widow Claire and The Starry Messenger by Kenneth Lonergan. Broadway: Brighton Beach Memoirs (Tony, OCC, Theatre World awards), Biloxi Blues, How to Succeed in Business... (Tony DD OCC awards), Night Must Fall, Taller Than a Dwarf, The Producers (Tony, DD, OCC nominations), Roundabout's The Foreigner, The Philanthropist, Nice Work If You Can Get It, and It's Only a Play. TV: "The Music Man" on ABC and "'Master Harold'... And the Boys" on Showtime. Films include Max Dugan Returns, WarGames, 1918, On Valentine's Day, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Project X, Lady-Hawke, Biloxi Blues, Glory, Family Business, The Freshman, The Lion King, Infinity (directed by Mr. Broderick), The Cable Guy, Addicted to Love, Inspector Gadget, Election, You Can Count on Me, The Last Shot, Marie and Bruce, Strangers With Candy, Wonderful World, the film adaptation of The Producers, Bee Movie, Then She Found Me, Finding Amanda, Tower Heist and Margaret. He will soon be seen in Neil LaBute's Dirty Weekend, The American Side and the Untitled Warren Beatty Project.
SYLVIA was first produced in 1995 starring Sarah Jessica Parker, receiving Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Play, Outstanding Actress in a Play (Parker), and Outstanding Costume Design. The production ran for 167 performances. It has since played countless times, leaving its mark all over the world. Here is what critics have had to say about the piece:
"A.R. Gurney, the chronicler of sophisticated upper-middle-class angst, author of plays like "The Dining Room" and "Love Letters," is a man gifted with uncommon insight into human motivations and frailties. So when he turns his gift to the analysis of what a dog might really be thinking and really want, it should not be surprising that the results are so rich. "SYLVIA" is delicious and dizzy, full of theatrical intelligence and writerly skill...for anyone who has ever owned a dog, loved a dog or wished the dog would take a long weekend...." -The New York Times
""SYLVIA" is one of the most involving, beautiful, funny, touching and profound plays I have ever seen. No one who has ever loved a dog will quibble with my first four adjectives..." -New York Daily News
"Who knows what inspired A.R. Gurney to write a play about a talking dog who sees a mild-mannered man through his mid-life crisis? Whatever the inspiration, "SYLVIA" itself is enchanting and compassionate." -Variety
Website:
http://www.sylviabroadway.com/
