The box office opens on Sunday, September 10th for Roundabout Theatre Company's Off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams'drama Suddenly Last Summer, directed by Mark Brokaw, and starring Blythe Danner and Carla Gugino.
Suddenly Last Summer will begin previews on Friday, October 20th, 2006 and open officially on Wednesday, November 15th, Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46 Street). It will play a limited engagement through January 21st, 2007.
Additional casting and the design team will be announced shortly.
Mark Brokaw (
The Constant Wife) directs the new production of the psychological drama by Tennessee Williams. "Tony- and Emmy Award-winner
Blythe Danner (Follies, TV's "Huff") stars as the formidable Mrs. Venable, an aging widow distraught over the mysterious death of her son. When the young cousin traveling with him, played by
Carla Gugino, begins raising scandalous allegations, Mrs. Venable will stop at nothing to preserve her son's reputation," as the show is described in production notes.
Suddenly Last Summer marks
Blythe Danner's fourth production with Roundabout, where she last starred as Phyllis in
Stephen Sondheim's
Follies (Tony nomination).
Carla Gugino made her New York stage debut in Roundabout Theatre Company's 2004 Broadway production of
Arthur Miller's
After The Fall.Suddenly Last Summer premiered Off-Broadway on January 7, 1958 as part of
Garden District – a double-bill with another Williams play
Something Unspoken. In 1959 the play was adapted into a screenplay by Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams. The movie was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starred
Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift.
Suddenly Last Summer will play Tuesday through Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m. with Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets will be available beginning Sunday, September 10th by calling Roundabout Ticket Services at (212)719-1300, online at
www.roundabouttheatre.org or at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre box office (111 West 46 Street). Ticket prices range from $63.75 - $73.75.
