The Trip to Bountiful: Tom Wopat and more joins cast

Tom Wopat has joined the cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, directed by Michael Wilson.

Wopat's Broadway credits include 'Catch Me if You Can,' 'Sondheim on Sondheim,' 'A Catered Affair' (Tony nomination), 'Glengarry Glen Ross,' 'Chicago,' '42nd Street,' 'Annie Get Your Gun' (Tony nomination),' Guys and Dolls,' 'City of Angels,' 'I Love My Wife.' He is still known to TV fans as "Luke Duke" from the TV series "The Dukes of Hazzard."

Wopat joins the previously announced Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award-winning actress Cicely Tyson in the lead role of 'Carrie Watts,' as well as Emmy Award nominee and recording star Vanessa Williams, Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad and Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding, Jr ("Jerry Maguire").

The company will also feature Devon Abner, Curtis Billings, Pat Bowie, Leon Addison Brown, Arthur French, Susan Heyward, Bill Kux, Linda Powell and Charles Turner.

The revival opens at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on 23 Apr 2012, following previews from 30 Mar 2012, playing a 14-week limited engagement through to 7 Jul 2013.

The Trip to Bountiful tells the story of Carrie Watts (Tyson), an elderly woman who dreams of returning to her small hometown of Bountiful, TX one last time, against the wishes of her overprotective son (Gooding) and domineering daughter-in-law (Williams).

The show will be produced on Broadway by Nelle Nugent. The creative team includes set sets by Jeff Cowie, costumes by Van Broughton Ramsey, lighting by Rui Rita and sound by John Gromada.

The Trip to Bountiful premiered as a teleplay on NBC in 1953, starring Lillian Gish as 'Carrie Watts.' The play had its Broadway premiere later that year with the same cast, which also included Eva Marie Saint. The play was adapted by Foote into an acclaimed 1985 film starring Geraldine Page, for which she won the Academy Award. In 2005, Signature Theatre produced the play Off-Broadway starring Lois Smith, for which she won Lortel, Obie, Outer Critics and Drama Desk Awards.