Academy Award® nominee Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), now making her Broadway debut as Helen Keller in THE MIRACLE WORKER, visited FOX 5's "Good Day New York" live this morning.
The first Broadway revival of William Gibson's Tony Award® winning play opens tonight at Circle in the Square Theatre (235 West 50th Street).Directed by Kate Whoriskey (Ruined) and staged in the round for the first time, THE MIRACLE WORKER also stars Tony Award® nominee Alison Pill (Broadway's The Lieutenant of Inishmore, film Milk), Golden Globe Award® winner and Emmy Award® nominee Matthew Modine (the film Short Cuts, "And the Band Played On"), Jennifer Morrison (Fox series "House," film Star Trek), Tony Award® winner Elizabeth Franz (Death of a Salesman) and features Tobias Segal, Daniel Oreskes, Michael Cummings, Simone Joy Jones, Yvette Ganier and Lance Chantiles-Wertz.Set in Tuscumbia, Alabama in the 1880s, THE MIRACLE WORKER tells the story of the young Helen Keller, who became blind and deaf after a childhood illness, and the extraordinary woman, Annie Sullivan, who taught her to communicate with the world.
