Tuesdays with Morrie, with Gould and Fumusa, Plays Chicago Feb. 28-March 12

By: Feb. 01, 2006
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Harold Gould will co-star with Dominic Fumusa in the Jeffrey Hatcher/Mitch Albom dramatization of Albom's runaway bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie. Directed by Michael Montel, the play will stop at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.) from February 28th through March 12th, 2006.

Albom's book, Tuesdays With Morrie, "became a major hit when it was first published in 1997 and was on The New York Times Hardcover Best Seller list 205 weeks. Having since been published in 31 languages in 36 countries, the book remains at the top of The New York Times Paperback Best Seller list.

Tuesdays with Morrie "is the heart-warming and profoundly moving recounting of the relationship between award-winning sportswriter Mitch Albom and his former sociology professor Morrie Schwartz who has been stricken with ALS (Lou Gherig's Disease). After years without contact, Albom recalled a forgotten promise to stay in touch and, as he once he did as a student, reclaimed his visits with Morrie every Tuesday until he died," state press notes.
 
In the stage adaptation, the role of the gentle, aging college professor who once loved to dance with the same passion he had for teaching his students, is played by Gould, while Fumusa will be seen in the role of author/journalist Mitch Albom.

Gould, who won an Obie Award for his performance in Difficulty of Concentration, also appeared on Broadway in Mixed Emotions, Artist Descending a Staircase, Grown Ups and Fools. He is a familiar face to TV viewers for his turns on "Rhoda" and "The Golden Girls," among  many others, and he has also been seen in dozens of films. They include Freaky Friday, Stuart Little, Silent Movie, Love and Death and The Sting.

Fumusa has been seen on Broadway in the thriller Wait After Dark, and he originated the role of Teddy Koovitz in the Public Theatre production of Take Me Out. His film and TV credits include The Guru, "NYPD Blue," "Charmed," "Sex and the City" and "The Sopranos."
 
 Author and journalist Albom is a nationally-syndicated columnist for the Detroit Free Press and a nationally-syndicated radio host of his own radio show. Named the top sports columnist in the nation 13 times by the Associated Sports Editors of America, the highest honor in his field, Albom is the founder of The Dream Fund, a charity which helps underprivileged youth study art, and also a volunteer program, A Time to Help. In addition to Tuesdays With Morrie, Albom has also authored the #1 international bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven.

Co-author Jeffrey Hatcher has penned plays such as A Picasso, Three Viewings, Scotland Road and Korczak's Children, which have been performed on and Off-Broadway and regionally across the U.S. and abroad. Other stage adaptations include Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, Anouilh's Leocadia: To Fool the Eye and Pierre, based on George Bernard Shaw's novel An Unsocial Socialist. He also penned the screenplay of the recent hit film Casanova and adapted his play Compleat Stage Beauty into a film.

The play will feature sets by Michael Anania and costumes by Ellis Tillman.  

Tickets for Tuesdays with Morrie range in price from $32 - $65 and are available at the Cadillac Palace Theatre Box Office, (151 W. Randolph St.), Broadway In Chicago Box Offices (24 W. Randolph St. and 151 W. Randolph St.), through the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Line at (312) 902-1400, at all Ticketmaster ticket centers (including all Carson Pirie Scott stores, Tower Records, Hot Tix, select Coconuts and fye stores) or online at ticketmaster.com. Groups of 20 or more can receive a discount by calling (312) 977-1710.

For more information, go to www.BroadwayInChicago.com.
 

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