Fox news is reporting this morning that actress Debra Winger will "all but certainly" be making her Broadway debut this fall in the production Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?
The play is based off of the 1968 movie starring Kathryn Hepburn and Spencer Tracy and tells the story of a mother's fret when her daughter brings a black doctor home as her fiance.
Debra is rumored to be playing the lead of the matriarch (played by Hepburn in the movie) and they are supposedly looking at
Bill Pullman and
Barry Bostwick for to fill the role originated by Tracy.
In a reading of the play last fall
Blythe Danner and
Larry Bryggman played the parts.
In terms of the supporting roles,
Roger Friedman from Fox states,"Other roles are going to LaTauya Richardson Jackson, the talented actress wife of
Samuel L. Jackson, as the family's maid. Producers are said to be looking at TV's
Amanda Bynes as the couple's daughter, played by Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton in the film. Still to be cast is the
Sidney Poitier role,
Dr. John Prentice, although I'm told Mekhi Phifer, of "ER," may be the final choice."
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