Photo Coverage: Suddenly Last Summer Meet & Greet
By: Walter McBride Sep. 28, 2006
The cast of the Roundabout Theatre Company's upcoming Off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer, as well as its director Mark Brokaw, appeared at a press meet and greet on September 27th.
Starring Blythe Danner (Follies, "Huff") and Carla Gugino (After the Fall, films such as Sin City), Suddenly Last Summer will begin previews on Friday, October 20th, 2006 and open officially on Wednesday, November 15th at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46 Street). It will play 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. Brokaw (The Constant Wife) directs.
"Tony- and Emmy Award-winner Danner 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 Gugino, begins raising scandalous allegations, Mrs. Venable will stop at nothing to preserve her son's reputation," as the show is described in production notes.
Visit www.roundabouttheatre.org for tickets or more information.Photos by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.
Blythe Danner and Carla Gugino
Blythe Danner, Gale Harold and Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino, Wayne Wilcox and Mark Brokaw
Wayne Wilcox and Becky Ann Baker
Wayne Wilcox and Becky Ann Baker
Blythe Danner, Gale Harold, Carla Gugino and Mark Brokaw
(left to right) Karen Walsh, Blythe Danner, Sandra Shipley, Gale Harold, Carla Gugino, Mark Brokaw, Becky Ann Baker and Wayne Wilcox
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