The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore: Roundabout announces full cast

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the full company of The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, by Tennessee Williams, directed by Michael Wilson.

Joining the previously announced Olympia Dukakis (Flora Goforth) are Curtis Billings (Giulio), Elisa Bocanegra (Simonetta), Edward Hibbert (Witch of Capri), Maggie Lacey (Frances Black) and Darren Pettie (Christopher Flanders).

The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore will play during the year of Williams' centennial celebration with previews beginning on 7 Jan 2011 and the official opening on 30 Jan 2011 at the Laura Pels Theatre. This is a limited engagement through to 3 Apr 2011.

The design team includes Jeff Cowie (Sets), David C. Woolard (Costumes), Rui Rita (Lights) & John Gromada (Original Music & Sound).

In this haunting Tennessee Williams drama, Olympia Dukakis stars as 'Flora Goforth,' a wealthy American widow. In her picturesque Italian mountaintop home, Flora has detached from the world in order to write her memoirs. When a handsome and mysterious young visitor arrives without warning to keep Flora company in her final hours, this dreamlike play blossoms into a fascinating meditation on life and death.

This production of Williams' play premiered May 2008 at Hartford Stage directed by Artistic Director Michael Wilson and was the culmination of Wilson's ten-year project on the work of Tennessee Williams.

Roundabout Theatre Company has a long association with Tennessee Williams, having staged most recently 'The Glass Menagerie' (2009-2010), 'Suddenly Last Summer' (2006-2007), 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (2004-2005), 'The Night of the Iguana' (1995-1996), 'Summer and Smoke' (1995-1996 and 1975-1976) and 'The Glass Menagerie' (1994-1995).

Roundabout welcomes back Michael Wilson following his Broadway staging of 'Old Acquaintance' at the American Airlines Theatre in 2007. Roundabout is also pleased to have Edward Hibbert appear on their Laura Pels stage following his role in their fall production 'Mrs. Warren's Profession,' which ends its run on Broadway on 28 Nov 2010.

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Curtis Billings (Giulio). Off Broadway: 'The Orphans Home Cycle' (Signature Theatre), 'The Play About the Baby' (Century Center). Regional Theatre: 'The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore,' 'Summer and Smoke,' 'Eight by Tenn,' 'Night of the Iguana,' 'Camino Real,' 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' 'A Christmas Carol' and 'Macbeth '(All directed by Michael Wilson at the Hartford Stage Company).

Elisa Bocanegra (Simonetta) made her film debut in the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize Winner for Best Film, 'Girlfight' (exec prod, John Sayles). Soon after she began a career in independent film working on features which include 'Spun' alongside Mickey Rourke, 'White Oleander' and most recently the indie comedy 'El Superstar: The Unlikely Rise of Juan Frances' (produced by Norman Lear and George Lopez). Bocanegra began her theatre career at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Olympia Dukakis (Flora Goforth). Broadway: 'Rose,' 'Social Security,' 'Who's Who in Hell,' Abraham Cochrane. Off-Broadway: 'The Singing Forest,' 'A Mother, A Daughter, and A Gun,' 'The Hope Zone,' 'The Marriage of Bette and Boo,' 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Nourish the Beast,' 'Baba Goya,' 'Peer Gynt,' 'The Memorandum' and 'Father Uxbridge Wants To Marry.' Film credits include "Moonstruck" (Oscar Nomination), "Steel Magnolias." TV credits include playing the eccentric 'Mrs. Anna Madrigal' in 'Tales of the City,' 'More Tales...' and 'Further Tales.'

Edward Hibbert (Witch of Capri). Broadway: 'Mrs. Warren's Profession,' 'Curtains,' 'The Drowsy Chaperone,' 'Noises Off,' 'The Green Bird,' 'Me and My Girl,' 'Alice in Wonderland.' Off-Broadway includes 'Oscar Wilde' in 'Gross Indecency,' 'Jeffrey,' 'My Night with Reg' and 'Privates on Parade.' London West End: 'THE The Mystery of Irma Vep,' 'Lend Me a Tenor' and 'Hamlet.' TV includes 11 seasons on "Frasier" as "Gil Chesterton," "Law and Order SVU" and "Once Upon a Mattress" with Carol Burnett.

Maggie Lacey (Frances Black) made her Broadway debut as 'Emily Webb' in 'Our Town,' directed by James Naughton and starring Paul Newman. Other Broadway credits include the Broadway revival of 'Inherit The Wind' and 'Dividing The Estate.' Her work Off-Broadway includes Horton Foote's' 'The Orphans Home Cycle,' 'Dividing The Estate,' 'Big Times.' Her work on television includes the movie of "Our Town" for both Showtime and PBS, "Army Wives," "Law and Order," "All My Children" and "Sex and the City."

Darren Pettie (Christopher Flanders) has appeared on Broadway in 'Butley.' Off-Broadway credits include 'The Collection & A Kind of Alaska' (Atlantic Theatre Company), 'This' (Playwrights Horizons), 'Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams' (Primary Stages), 'Hobson's Choice' (Atlantic), 'Unwrap Your Candy' (Vineyard) and 'Measure for Measure' (Delacorte).

Michael Wilson's (Director) Broadway credits 'Dividing the Estate,' 'Old Acquaintance' (Roundabout Theatre Co.), 'Enchanted April,' 'The Carpetbagger's Children' (LCT). Off-Broadway: Christopher Shinn's 'What Didn't Happen' (Playwrights Horizons), Horton Foote's 'Dividing the Estate' and 'The Day Emily Married' (Primary Stages), Eve Ensler's 'Necessary Targets,' Jane Anderson's 'Defying Gravity' and the New York premiere of Tennessee Williams' 'The Red Devil Battery Sign.'

Tennessee Williams (Playwright) first critical acclaim came in 1944 when 'The Glass Menagerie' opened in Chicago and went to Broadway. It won a Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and, as a film, the New York Film Critics' Circle Award. Other plays include 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof,' 'Not About Nightingales,' 'Summer and Smoke,' 'Garden District,' 'The Rose Tattoo,' 'Orpheus Descending,' 'Clothes for a Summer Hotel,' 'Vieux Carré,' 'The Eccentricities of a Nightingale,' 'A Memory of Two Mondays,' ,27 Wagons Full of Cotton,' 'Out Cry,' 'Camino Real,' 'The Seven Descents of Myrtle,' 'The Mutilated,' 'The Gnadiges Fraulein,' 'Period of Adjustment,' 'All in One,' 'You Touched Me,' 'Sweet Bird Of Youth,' 'The Night Of The Iguana' and 'The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More.'