Casting Complete for Signature's The Trip to Bountiful, Running Nov. 15-Jan. 8

By: Oct. 18, 2005
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Complete casting has been announced for the Signature Theatre Company's upcoming staging of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful. The show will launch the theatre's 15th Anniversary Signature Series season, and will be presented from November 15th through January 8th, 2006 at the Peter Norton Space (555 W. 42nd Street).

In addition to the previously-announced Lois Smith and Hallie Foote, the show will feature Devon Abner, Meghan Andrews, Gene Jones, Sam Kitchin and Frank Girardeau.

Harris Yulin (who acted in Hedda Gabler, The Price and others) will helm the piece, whose protagonist is Carrie Watts (Smith), who "longs to return to her childhood home of Bountiful, TX, where she hasn't been in 30 years. Despite her failing health, she grows more determined to escape from the tiny Houston apartment she shares with her soft-spoken son and watchful daughter-in-law (Foote). Finally she gets her chance to head homeward, and it is the journey of a lifetime," according to production notes.

Foote's New York credits include A Little Family Business, The Day Emily Married, The Carpetbagger's Children (also penned by her father Horton Foote), The Last of the Thortons, Laura Dennis, Night Seasons and The Widow Claire. Smith received Tony Award nominations for her performances in Buried Child and The Grapes of Wrath. Other Broadway credits include Stages, The Iceman Cometh, and the original production of Tennesee Williams' Orpheus Descending.

The Trip to Bountiful will boast sets by E. David Cosier, costumes by Martin Pakledinaz, lighting by John McKernon and sound by Fitz Patton.

The original 1953 Broadway production of The Trip to Bountiful featured Lillian Gish, Eva Marie Saint, and Jo Van Fleet (who won a Tony Award for her performance). A 1985 film adaptation starred John Heard, Rebecca De Mornay and Geraldine Page, who was honored with an Academy Award.

For more information, visit www.signaturetheatre.org.
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