DRIVING MISS DAISY Offers 40% Snow Discount on Shows Today

By: Jan. 12, 2011
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The producers of Driving Miss Daisy have announced that tickets for today's performances (2:00pm matinee and 8:00pm evening shows) are available at a 40% discount due to the snow. Discounts are available at http://www.broadwayoffers.com/go.aspx?MD=2001&MC=MDINC13.

Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy, which is playing to sold out houses at the Golden Theatre (252 W45th Street), has recouped its initial investment, making it the first play of the 2010-11 Broadway season to celebrate recoupment. Driving Miss Daisy, which stars Tony Award-winners James Earl Jones, Vanessa Redgrave and Boyd Gaines and is directed by David Esbjornson, opened to critical acclaim on October 25, 2010 and recently extended its Broadway run through April 9, 2011, with all three stars remaining with the production.

Mr. Uhry's classic play is a timeless, searing, funny, and ultimately hopeful meditation on race relations in America, told through the complex relationship between two of popular culture's most enduring characters. When Daisy Werthan (Redgrave), a widowed, 72-year-old Jewish woman living in midcentury Atlanta, is deemed too old to drive, her son, Boolie (Gaines), hires Hoke Coleburn (Jones), an African American man, to serve as her chauffeur. What begins as a troubled and hostile pairing, soon blossoms into a profound, life-altering friendship that transcends all the societal boundaries placed between them.

From its landmark Off-Broadway production in 1987 to the remarkable success of the Oscar-winning film version (4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture), Driving Miss Daisy has become one of the most beloved American stories of the late twentieth century.

The creative team of Driving Miss Daisy includes John Lee Beatty (Scenic Design), Jane Greenwood (Costume Design), Peter Kaczorowski (Lighting Design), Wendall K. Harrington (Projection Design), Mark Bennett (Music) and Christopher Cronin (Sound Design).

Driving Miss Daisy is produced on Broadway by Jed Bernstein, Adam Zotovich, Elizabeth Ireland McCann, Roger Berlind, Beth Kloiber, Albert Nocciolino, Jon B. Platt, StylesFour Productions, Ruth Hendel/Shawn Emamjomeh, Larry Hirschhorn/Spring Sirkin, Carl Moellenberg/Wendy Federman, Daryl Roth/Jane Bergére, in association with Michael Filerman.

Driving Miss Daisy currently plays the following performance schedule: Monday, Wednesday - Saturday at 8:00 p.m., Tuesday at 7:00 p.m., with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday at 2:00 p.m. Beginning the week of January 31, 2011, the show will play Tuesday at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday - Saturday at 8:00 p.m., with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday at 2:00 p.m. Tickets ($66.50 - $131.50) are on sale via Telecharge.com, by calling 212 239-6200, and at the box office of the Golden Theatre. Student tickets (one ticket per ID, subject to availability) are available for day-of purchase at the box office for $26.50.


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