Sweet Bird of Youth: Kidman returning Broadway?

Michael Riedel of the New York Post reports that Nicole Kidman will be returning to Broadway in the Fall of 2011 to star in a revival of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, to be directed by David Cromer.

According to Riedel, Kidman will play the "Alexandra Del Lago, an aging, drunken and sexually voracious movie star." There has been no announcement about who will play the role of the gigolo 'Chance Wayne' who hopes that his relationship with Del Lago will allow him to finally make it in the movies.

In Sweet Bird of Youth Chance returns to his home town with Alexandra Del Lago, and once again becomes obsessed with his former girlfriend Heavenly Finney. Finney's father, the local politician, still disapproves of Chance and hopes to once again drive him out of town - but with a film star in tow, things prove more difficult a second time round.

The revival of Sweet Bird of Youth will be produced by Scott Rudin, who also produced David Hare's 'The Blue Room' in which Kidman made her Broadway debut in 1998.

Sweet Bird of Youth premiered on Broadway in 1959 and starred Geraldine Page as 'Alexandra Del Lago' and Paul Newman as 'Chance Wayne.' The play was adapted into a screenplay by Richard Brooks, and a movie was released in 1962 which again starring Geraldine Page and Paul Newman.

The play has been revised once on Broadway in 1976, directed by Edwin Sherin it starred Christopher Walken as 'Chance Wayne' and 'Irene Worth' as 'Alexandra Del Lago'