Suddenly Last Summer announces full cast

The Roundabout Theatre Company have announced the full castfor their production of Suddenly Last Summer, by Tennessee Williams, opening at the Laura Pels Theatre on 15 Nov 2006, following previews from 20 Oct and running through to 21 Jan 2007.

Joining the previously announced Blythe Danner (Mrs. Venable) and Carla Gugin (Catharine Holly), are Becky Ann Baker (Mrs. Holly), Gale Harold (Doctor Cukrowicz), Sandra Shipley (Sister Felicity), Karen Walsh (Miss Foxhill) and Wayne Wilcox (George Holly). The play will be directed by Mark Brokaw.

Suddenly Last Summer: 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 (After the Fall), begins raising scandalous allegations, Mrs. Venable will stop at nothing to preserve her son�s reputation.

Set and costume design by Santo Loquasto, with lighting by David Weiner and sound by Peter Golub.

Suddenly Last Summer marks Blythe Danner�s fourth production with Roundabout, where she last starred as Phyllis in Stephen Sondheim�s Follies. Carla Gugino made her New York stage debut in Roundabout Theatre Company�s 2004 Broadway production of Arthur Miller�s After The Fall. Becky Ann Baker played �Sara Jane Moore� in Roundabout�s Tony Award winning revival of Sondheim and Weidman�s Assassins.

Mark Brokaw directed Roundabout Theatre Company�s revival of W. Somerset Maugham�s The Constant Wife, starring Kate Burton and Lynn Redgrave, in the summer of 2005.

Suddenly Last Summer premiered Off-Broadway on 7 Jan 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.