Sella, James, Etc. Join London's The Lady from Dubuque

Robert Sella and others will join the previously announced Maggie Smith and Catherine McCormack in the upcoming West End production of Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee's The Lady from Dubuque, which will open on Tuesday, March 20 following previews that begin March 3. The production will play a strictly limited engagement.

Featured in the cast will be Smith (Academy Award-winner for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and California Suite, Tony for Lettuce and Lovage) as 'Elizabeth' and McCormack (Olivier Award-nominee for All My Sons, films such as Dangerous Beauty) as 'Jo,' joined by Sella as 'Sam,' Chris Larkin as 'Edgar,' Peter Francis James as 'Oscar,' Vivienne Benesch as 'Lucinda,' Jennifer Regan as 'Carol,' and Glenn Fleshler at 'Fred.'  The production will be directed by Anthony Page (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).

The play, which debuted on Broadway in 1980, concerns three young couples at a cocktail party and the sudden arrival of two unexpected guests, the elegant Elizabeth and Oscar.

The American members of the cast, Benesch, Fleshler, James, Regan and Sella, are appearing with the permission of Actors' Equity Association.

Set design is by Hildegard Bechtler, costume design by Amy Roberts, and lighting by Howard Harrison.

The Lady from Dubuque will be presented in London by Robert Fox and Elizabeth Ireland McCann and The Shubert Organization.

This marks the fourth West End collaboration of star Maggie Smith, playwright Edward Albee, director Anthony Page and producers Robert Fox and Elizabeth I. McCann, following two productions of Three Tall Women and A Delicate Balance.

Sella has appeared in New York in Side Man, Kit Marlowe, and as the Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret on Broadway. Larkin portrayed Henry VIII in the television mini-series "The Six Wives of Henry VIII." James most recently appeared in New York in Stuff Happens, and in the Broadway revival of On Golden Pond, Judgment at Nuremberg, and The American Clock. Regan appeared on Broadway in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Benesch has appeared on Broadway in After the Fall and The Deep Blue Sea. Glenn Fleshler appeared in New York in Stuff Happens.

The Lady from Dubuque will perform at the Theatre Royal Haymarket Mondays - Saturdays at 8 p.m. with matinees at 3 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Tickets are available at theatre box office (0870 145 1171).

Photo - Robert Sella