PAST PERFORMANCES

The 1998-1999 Season

STAGE RIGHT THEATRE

"DON'T DARE MISS IT!" - Dennis Cunningham, WCBS/Channel 2
"A LAUGH ORGY!" - David Patrick Stearns, USA Today

Martin ShortFaith Prince
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book by Neil Simon
music by Cy Coleman
lyrics by Carolyn Leigh
based on the novel by Patrick Dennis
directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall

Comic genius Martin Short stars with Tony Award-winner Faith Prince in this delightfully entertaining musical about a man who takes a lifetime to learn that money can buy anything but love. The action is fast and furious and so are the laughs in this tune-filled classic. Little Me is packed with big-name talent, featuring a book by Neil Simon, music by Cy Coleman and direction and choreography by Rob Marshall (Cabaret).

Buy the Roundabout Cast Recording of Little Me!

Image: Faith Prince and Martin Short

1999 TONY AWARD® NOMINEE! - Stockard Channing - Best Actress in a Play

"Ferociously Good! Stockard Channing is dazzling!" - Donald Lyons, New York Post
"The mighty and majestic Laurence Fisburne is every inch a king!" - Ben Brantley, The New York Times

Laurence FishburneStockard Channing
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by James Goldman
directed by Michael Mayer

Roundabout is proud to offer the first-ever Broadway revival of James Goldman's scintillating THE LION IN WINTER. This eloquent and witty play tells the story of the bickering within a royal family some 800 years ago that parallel's similar rivalries and hostilities within modern families of wealth and position. Tony and Emmy Award-winner Laurence Fishburne (Two Trains Running, Riff Raff, What's Love Got To Do With It) stars as Henry II, and is joined by Tony Award-winner Stockard Channing (Six Degrees of Separation, Little Foxes, Joe Egg at Roundabout) as Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Image: Laurence Fishburne and Stockard Channing

LAURA PELS THEATRE

W O R L D P R E M I E R E
"A Brisk & Perky New Comedy" - Clive Barnes, NY Post
"Whimsical & Poingant" - Fintan O'Toole, Daily News

by Beth Henley
with Holly Hunter
directed by Stephen Wadsworth

"Sugar and spice and every known vice -- that's what Beth Henley's plays are made of." Time's description of Crimes of the Heart could just as well have been written for this funny, fanciful and moving new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Beth Henley. Part drama, part absurdist comedy, it tells the tale of an improbable marriage between a young woman and a man over twice her age, balding, overweight and rumored to be a philanderer. Starring Academy Award-Winner Holly Hunter (The Piano), Impossible Marriage is Henley at her best, writing with wit and compassion about people who are deliciously whacko, yet true-to-life.

Buy the Script to Impossible Marriage!

Image: (l to r) Holly Hunter, Lois Smith and Gretchen Cleevely

N E W Y O R K P R E M I E R E

"A Letter-Perfect Production!" - John Simon, New York Magazine
"Hilarious! Swoosie Kurtz gives a tour-de-force performance!"
- Jacques le Sourd, Gannet Newspapers

Swoosie Kurtz in

by Paula Vogel
directed by Joe Mantello
also starring Mo Gaffney

Multiple Tony Award-winner Swoosie Kurtz (The House of Blue Leaves, Fifth of July) stars as both Myrna and Myra, a pair of the most opposite identical twins you'll ever meet. The Mineola Twins follows their lives from the Eisenhower era all the way up to the Reagan-Bush years. Along the way, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) and director Joe Mantello (Love! Valour! Compassion!) present a witty and entertaining dissection of suburban womanhood.

Buy the Script to The Mineola Twins!

Image: Swoosie Kurtz

The Laura Pels Theatre Season at the GRAMERCY THEATRE

A M E R I C A NP R E M I E R E
"Exquisitely Mounted! Lindsay Duncan's performance is shattering!" - Ben Brantley, New York Times
"David Strathairn gives an impeccable performance!" - Charles Isherwood, Variety

Lindsay Duncan and David Strathairn
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by Harold Pinter
directed by Karel Reisz

Roundabout is proud to present the American Premiere of Harold Pinter's new play. Tony Award-nominee Lindsay Duncan (Les Liaisons Dangereuses) and David Strathairn (The Three Sisters, LA Confidential) star as an all-too-modern couple caught in a web of their own barbarism. Pinter explores the apparent link between sexual and political fascism and the way one echoes, and sometimes contradicts, the other in this powerful and intense drama by one of the 20th-Century's greatest dramatists.

Production support generously provided by
The Laura Pels Foundation.


Buy the Script to Ashes to Ashes!

Image: Lindsay Duncan and David Strathairn

N E WY O R KP R E M I E R E
"BIG laughs!" - Peter Marks, The New York Times
"A top-notch ensemble!" - Michael Sommers, Star-Ledger

by Richard Greenberg
directed by David Warren

Roundabout is proud to present the newest play by Richard Greenberg, author of last season's hit, Three Days of Rain, and a New York Newsday Oppenheimer Award recipient. Directed by David Warren (Misalliance, Summer & Smoke, Holiday), Hurrah At Last stars Peter Frechette ("Profiler," Eastern Standard) as Laurie, a down-on-his-luck novelist obsessed with money. He is surrounded by a coterie of outrageous (and wealthy) characters in this witty and melancholic comedy about envy, blame and ultimate acceptance.

Buy the Script to Hurrah At Last!

Image: Paul Michael Valley and Peter Frechette

Subscribers to the 1998-99 Season also received tickets to the 50th Anniversary Production of
The Death of A Salesman, by Arthur Miller, (starring Brian Dennehy) on Broadway.

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