Old Globe Presents 'Pink Lady' with Rosemarry Harris

The Tony Award-winning Old Globe is pleased to present Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's Oscar and the Pink Lady, directed by Frank Dunlop, starring Tony and Emmy Award-winner RoseMary Harris, to run in the Cassius Carter Centre Stage September 22 through November 4, 2007.

From acclaimed writer Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt comes a beautiful and surprisingly funny one-woman play that tells the story of a young hospital patient and his uplifting relationship with a kindly volunteer "Pink Lady," whose daily visits provide him with inspiration and hope. Starring venerated actress RoseMary Harris, Oscar and the Pink Lady is "sensitive, heartbreaking, amusing, and ultimately life-affirming."

The production team includes Frank Dunlop, director; Michael Vaughn Sims, scenic design; Jane Greenwood, costume design; Trevor Norton, lighting design; Lindsay Jones, sound design; and Monica Cuoco, stage manager.

Internationally-renowned actress RoseMary Harris starred in the original Broadway productions of Old Times, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Royal Family, Heartbreak House, Pack of Lies, Hay Fever, A Delicate Balance, Waiting in the Wings, An Inspector Calls and The Lion in the Winter, for which she won a Tony Award.

Within a decade, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt has become one of the most read and acted French-language authors in the world. Schmitt first made a name for himself in the theatre with The Visitor, a play that posits a meeting between Freud and – possibly – God.  Further successes quickly followed, including Enigma Variations, The Libertine, Between Worlds, Partners in Crime, My Gospels and Sentimental Tectonics. His plays have won several Molières and the French Academy's 'Grand Prix du Théâtre'.

Frank Dunlop is best known for his direction of the Broadway productions Camelot and Scapino. He was the founder and director of England's Young Vic Theatre, and has served as resident director at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre, associate director at England's National Theatre, as well as a director at the Piccolo Theatre in Manchester, England, the Nottingham Playhouse and the Edinburgh International Festival. He also founded the Brooklyn Academy Of Music's Theatre Company in 1978.

Tickets for Oscar and the Pink Lady are currently available by calling (619) 23-GLOBE, on the Globe website at www.TheOldGlobe.org, or by visiting the box office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park.

Photo of RoseMary Harris by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd. 

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