Inherit the Wind Revival Opens April 12 at the Lyceum
The previously announced Broadway revival of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee's classic Inherit the Wind, starring Tony Award-winners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy, is now slated to begin March 19th at the Lyceum Theatre and to open on April 12th.
The revival will play a 16-week limited run. Doug Hughes, a Tony Award-winner for Doubt, will direct.
Inherit the Wind
"is a fictionalized retelling of the famous 1925 "Monkey Trial," in
which science teacher John Scopes was tried and convicted for teaching
Darwin's theory of evolution, violating a Tennessee law that forbade
teaching any theory that conflicted with the Biblical conception of
Divine Creation. Dennehy will play the role of attorney Matthew
Harrison Brady (based on William Jennings Bryan), and Plummer will play
attorney Henry Drummond (based on Clarence Darrow)," state press
materials.
Inherit the Wind opened at The National Theatre on April 21st, 1955, and ran for 806 performances. The original production starred Paul Muni, Ed Begley, Tony Randall and more. A 1996 revival starred George C. Scott (who quit during the run of the production due to poor health) and Charles Durning. The classic 1960 film version, directed by Stanley Kramer, starred Spencer Tracy, FredEric March and Gene Kelly.
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