DRIVING MISS DAISY Opens Bunbury Theatre's 2012-13 Season, 10/12

Driving Miss Daisy, one of Modern American Theatre's most touching and irresistible stories, will be presented by Bunbury Theatre Company. Directed by Jon Huffman, this Pulitzer-Prize and Academy Award-winning comedy-drama is sure to warm your heart with its message of friendship, understanding and hope.

Driving Miss Daisy is a moving story of friendship told with humor, warmth and beauty. This family comedy is set in Atlanta, Ga. from 1948 to 1973. Daisy Werthan, an independent, aging Jewish widow - disagreeable, and set in her ways - reluctantly surrenders the driver's seat to Hoke Coleburn, a proud, soft-spoKen Black man. At first, Daisy's stubbornness and cultural prejudices cause much friction, but over the course of 25 years, Hoke becomes not only her chauffeur, but against all odds, her best friend.

Written by Alfred Uhry in 1987 as a tribute to his Atlanta-based family, the play went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Outer Critics Circle Award. A 1989 movie version starring Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, and Dan Aykroyd won four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Actress for Tandy.

It was revived on Broadway last season with Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones Bunbury's production will feature Della Brown, Clyde Tyrone Harper and Tony Prince. The theatre is located on the third floor of The Henry Clay building on the corner of Third and Chestnut.

Tickets are: $21.00 General, $18.00 Seniors and $10.00 Students and Children. Reservations: Phone (502) 585-5306; Email: Bunburytheatrereservations@gmail.com; online at www.bunburytheatre.org. Performances: October 12th - 28th Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Sunday matinee: 2:00 p.m.

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