Cast
BRIAN DENNEHY (Matthew Harrison Brady), won the 1999 Tony Award for best actor in a play for the 50th anniversary production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Mr. Dennehy also received a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Emmy nomination as best actor for Showtime's television adaptation of that production. He earned a second Tony Award in 2003 for his performance in Robert Falls' production of Long Day's Journey Into Night. He also starred on Broadway in Brian Friel's Translations. At Chicago's Goodman Theatre he appeared in the leading roles in Long Day's Journey Into Night (2002), Death of a Salesman (1998), A Touch of the Poet (1996), The Iceman Cometh (1992) and Galileo (1986). He and Falls collaborated again in 1992 for a remounting of The Iceman Cometh at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Additional theatre credits include Peter Brook's 1988 production of The Cherry Orchard at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Majestic Theater; Wisdom Bridge Theatre's production of Rat in the Skull; and Says I, Says He at the Mark Taper Forum and the Phoenix Theatre in New York. Mr. Dennehy has also starred in numerous television movies and miniseries and was nominated for an Emmy on four other occasions - for his work in "Burden of Proof," "To Catch a Killer (The John Wayne Gacy Story)," "Murder in the Heartland" and "A Killing in a Small Town." However, Mr. Dennehy is perhaps best known for his work in feature films, some of which include Semi-Tough, 10, Rambo: First Blood, Gorky Park, Never Cry Wolf, Twice in a Lifetime, Cocoon, Silverado, F/X, Legal Eagles, Best Seller, Presumed Innocent, Tommy Boy, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet and Peter Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect, for which he received the Chicago Film Festival Award as best actor.
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER (Henry Drummond) began professionally in Montréal, on radio and stage in French and English; worked under legendary director Fyodor Komisarjevsky. France: Jason opposite Dame Judith Anderson's Medea. Broadway: The Starcross Story with Eva Le Gallienne; Home Is the Hero; The Dark Is Light Enough opposite Katharine Cornell (Theatre World Award); The Lark opposite Julie Harris; Night of the Auk; Nickles in Elia Kazan's J.B.; Brecht's Arturo Ui; Pizarro in The Royal Hunt of the Sun; title role in the musical Cyrano (Tony Award, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Neil Simon's The Good Doctor (NY Drama League Award); Iago in Othello (Tony nomination); Macbeth; No Man's Land (Tony nomination); Barrymore (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Edwin Booth, National Arts Awards) and King Lear (Tony nomination, Drama Desk). England: many roles at the RSC (Sir Peter Hall) and The National Theatre (Sir Laurence Olivier) including Becket (Evening Standard Award) and Danton's Death directed by Sir Jonathan Miller (Evening Standard nomination). Many Film and TV roles including BBC-groundbreaking and Emmy Award-winning "Hamlet at Elsinore." Canada: Stratford Festival under Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Langham, playing most of the great roles in the canon. He has appeared in approximately 100 movies including Oscar-winning The Sound of Music, The Man Who Would Be King, Waterloo and Dolores Claiborne, Oscar-nominated The Insider (National Society Film Critics' Award), Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind, Nicholas Nickleby, Syriana and The Inside Man. He has received two Emmy Awards and six Emmy nominations. Among honors in the UK, U.S., Austria and Canada sanctioned by Elizabeth II, he has received the Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada's Genie Award and the Governor General's Award. An honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Juilliard School, he received the first Jason Robards Award in memory of his great friend. In 2006, he accepted The Sir John Gielgud Quill Award and in 1986 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.
DENIS O' HARE (E.K. Hornbeck). Broadway: Sweet Charity (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination); Assassins (Tony Award Nomination); Take Me Out (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Clarence Derwent Awards); Major Barbara; Cabaret; Racing Demon. Off-Broadway: A Spanish Play; Pig Farm; Take Me Out (Obie, Lucille Lortel Awards); Vienna: Lusthaus (revisited); Helen; Ten Unknowns; The Devils; Woyzeck; Lonely Planet; Hauptmann. Regional: Hartford Stage, CenterStage, NYS&F, McCarter, Long Wharf, Seattle Repertory, Goodman. London: Never the Sinner; Take Me Out. Film: Half Nelson, Stephanie Daley, Angel Rodriguez, Derailed, Garden State, The Anniversary Party, Hamlet, and the forthcoming Rocket Science, The Babysitters, Train Wreck: My Life as an Idiot, Michael Clayton, Awake, Charlie Wilson's War, A Mighty Heart, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Television: "Law & Order," "Once Upon a Mattress."
BYRON JENNINGS (Reverend Jeremiah Brown). Broadway: Heartbreak House, A Touch of the Poet, Twelve Angry Men, The Man Who Came to Dinner and A Month in the Country (Roundabout); Sight Unseen (MTC); Henry IV, Dinner at Eight, The Invention of Love, Carousel, all for LCT; Noises Off. Off-Broadway: The Foreigner (Roundabout); Dealer's Choice (MTC); Waste, Don Juan (TFANA); Stuff Happens, The Merchant of Venice, On the Open Road, Pericles (NYSF/Public); The Underpants (CSC); The Waiting Room (Vineyard). Film: Hamlet, Civil Action, The Ice Storm, A Time to Kill, A Simple Twist of Fate, Quiz Show.
TERRY BEAVER (Judge). Broadway: Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Democracy, Twentieth Century (Roundabout), Henry IV (Lincoln Center), The Man Who Came to Dinner (Roundabout), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Tony nomination, Outer Critics Circle award) Regional: Summer and Smoke (Hartford), Proof (Coconut Grove), How I Learned to Drive (Dallas Theater Center), Angels In America, Betrayal, The Dining Room, Shadowbox (Alliance Theater). Features: Imaginary Heroes, Hearts In Atlantis, Company Man. Television: "West Wing", "Shot In The Heart" (HBO film), "Now and Again", "Law and Order(s)", "Third Watch", "The Price of a Broken Heart", "I'll Fly Away" (recurring role).
ANNE BOWLES (Mrs. Loomis, u/s Rachel). Broadway debut. Credits: Centerstage, Cincinnati Playhouse, St. Louis Rep, Pioneer Theatre & Shakespeare Festival of NJ. DC area credits include: Studio Theatre, Ford's Theatre, Olney Theatre, Folger Theatre & Roundhouse Theatre. Various readings & workshops. BA, Catholic University.
STEVE BRADY (Townsperson, u/s Elijah, Sillers, Dunlop), has headlined in Karaoke Bars around the country while moonlighting with the national tour of The Exonerated, at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, Theatre J in DC (Helen Hayes nomination), Papermill Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse and many more. Understanding and support from those who know: Remarkable. Walking home from work: Priceless!
BILL BUELL (Bannister). Broadway includes: The History Boys, Urinetown, 42nd Street, Titanic, Tommy, Big River, Annie. Film /TV includes: Spy Game, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Love Letter, Kinsey, Dark Water, "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Law & Order", "The Bronx is Burning", "John Adams".
BILL CHRIST (Vendor, u/s Meeker, Goodfellow). Six seasons w/ Denver Center Theatre Company: favorites, Oedipus Rex (Oedipus), Lonesome West (Coleman), Beauty Queen... (Pato), Cyrano De Bergerac (Cyrano). Utah Shakespeare: Antony & Cleopatra (Antony), Hamlet (Claudius). Film/TV: Laramie Project, Die Hard 3, "Law & Order". MFA: Rutgers. Happy to return to Broadway & NY.
CARSON CHURCH (Gospel Quartet/Townsperson). B'way: Wonderful Town, Original Encores! Cast, Tenderloin & New Moon cast albums. Off-B'way/NYC: NYGASP's Pirates of Penzance (Pirate King). Regional: They're Playing Our Song (Vernon) w/ Andrea McArdle. Produced accappella jingle spots for MTV, Conan, Howard Stern, FOX TV and The Observer Music Mag.
CONOR DONOVAN (Howard). Broadway debut in Our Town (Wally Webb) w/ Paul Newman. Off-Broadway: Charlie in Privilege at Second Stage (Theater World Award, Lucille Lortel Nom.) Regional: Bert in All My Sons (Doug Hughes, dir.). Film: The Departed, Gary the Tennis Coach, Twelve & Holding, Small Room Dancing.
LANNY FLAHERTY (Elijah), since coming to New York in 1975 understudying the Broadway revival of Of Mice and Men, has participated in most forms of show biz: Broadway, Off-Broadway, Regional Theatre, movies, television, and commercials. Recovering playwright, he wrote Henry Fonda's last play.
KIT FLANAGAN (Townsperson, u/s Mrs. Brady, Mrs. Krebs, Mrs. Blair). Broadway: The Man Who Came To Dinner, Proposal's, All My Sond, Requiem for a Heavyweight. TV: "Law & Order", "Law & Order: SVU", "Conviction" and recurring roles on "Guiding Light" and "One Life to Live." Among her most recent films is the soon to be released, "The Warrior Class."
BETH FOWLER (Mrs. Brady). Broadway: The Boy from Oz (Tony nom.), Beauty and the Beast (Ovation Award, LA), Sweeney Todd (Tony nom '90), Baby, Teddy and Alice, Take Me Along, Peter Pan, Bells Are Ringing, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Over Here!, and Gantry. Off-Broadway: Atlantic Theatre Co., Riverside Shakespeare, Promenade. Regional: Westport, Williamstown, Arena Stage, Goodspeed. Film: Sister Act (I & II), Mulan, Friends and Family. TV: "Ed", "Law & Order" and "L&O: CI", daytime.
SHERMAN HOWARD (Townsperson, u/s Drummond, Monkey Man), has thrived in theater, film, and television for over 35 years. Google him.
KATIE KLAUS (Gospel Quartet/ Townsperson), recent graduate of CCM. Last seen as Young Sally (oposite Victoria Clark) in Encores! production of Follies as well as Twyla Tharp's Times They Are A Changin'. Thanks to Nicolosi & co., Binder's office, and my Family, I love you!
MAGGIE LACEY (Rachel Brown). Broadway: Our Town. Off-Broadway: Engaged, Andorra (TFANA), The Butterfly Collection (Playwrights Horizons), The Bold Soprano (Atlantic), Big Times (co-writer, W.E.T.). Regional: Long Wharf, Arena, Westport, Seattle Rep. Film/TV: In Bloom (Vadim Perelman, dir.), Our Town; "All My Children", "Law & Order", "Sex and the City". MFA: NYU.
JORDAN LAGE (Tom Davenport, u/s Hornbeck). Broadway: Glengarry Glen Ross (Drama Desk Award), Gore Vidal's The Best Man, The Old Neighborhood, Our Town. Off-Broadway: David Mamet's Home (Atlantic Theater), Soldier's Wife (Mint Theater), Distant Fires (Atlantic- AUDELCO Award nomination). Founding member, Atlantic Theater Co. To view Film/Television credits & clips: www.indieflavor.com
MARY KATE LAW (Gospel Quartet/ Townsperson). Bway: Sound of Music, Starmites & Encores Broadway Bash & Bloomer Girl. Film/TV: Down to Earth; Silent Fall & "Law & Order." Formerly on faculty, Yale School of Drama. Mary now teaches at CAP21 and Pace University. She's really from Kansas.
PHILIP LeSTRANGE (Townsperson, u/s Judge, Mayor, Bannister). Broadway: Death of A Saleman; True West; Never Gonna Dance; Dinner at Eight; The Man Who Had All the Luck; Judgment at Nuremberg; Last Night of Ballyhoo; Rose Tattoo; Philadelphia, Here I Come; Guys and Dolls; A Small Family Business; Six Degrees of Separation; The Front Page.
KEVIN C. LOOMIS (Monkey Man), is happy to be making his Broadway debut. Regional Theatres: Seattle Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, 5th Avenue Musical Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Childrens Theatre. Television: "Law & Order", "The Practice", "Frasier", "X-Files", "She Spies".
DAVID M. LUTKEN (Musical Supervisor/Gospel Quartet/Townsperson). Broadway: Ring of Fire; The Civil War; The Will Rogers Follies. NYC Opera: Paul Bunyan. Off- Broadway: Woody Guthrie's American Song; Stars in Your Eyes; Winterman. Regional: Seattle Rep; Denver Center; Dallas Summer Musicals; Ford's Theater; Alley Theatre Houston; Goodspeed Opera House.
CHARLOTTE MAIER (Mrs. Krebs). Broadway: Losing Louie, Brooklyn Boy, Dinner At Eight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, A Delicate Balance, Life x 3, Picnic. Off Bdwy: Balm In Gilead. Berkshire Theatre Festival: The Father, Night of the Iguana. Movies: Music and Lyrics, Two Weeks Notice, The Pink Panther. Upcoming Movie: Exposed.
MATTHEW NARDOZZI (Timmy, u/s Howard, Lindy). Broadway: Dracula, The Musical (Child), Thomaston Opera House: Stuart Little, The Musical (Stuart Little). Film: Chapter 27 (Little Kid), Emperor of Ice Cream (Nick). Many thanks to Shirley Faison/Carson Adler and Gary Nastu. Love to Mom, Dad and Nicole.
RANDALL NEWSOME (Photographer/ Townsperson). Broadway: A Touch of the Poet (Roundabout); Regional: McCarter, Alliance/Acting Company, Pittsburgh Public, City Theatre, Rep.Theatre of St. Louis; Film/TV: Big Fat Liar, Tremors, Padre Nuestro (2007 Sundance Grand-Jury), Highlander II, Benji-Off the Leash, Law & Order, Guiding Light, Ed.
JAY PATTERSON (Dunlop). Broadway: K-2 (Outer Critic's Circle nom.) Glengarry Glen Ross u/s. Off B-Way: NYTW, CSC, Roundabout. Regional: Arena Stage, Guthrie, McCarter, Yale Rep., A.T.C. (Seattle), Mark Taper Forum. TV: "Law & Order" (multiple episodes & incarnations) Film: Numerous Studio Features, Independents and Festival Darlings.
PIPPA PEARTHREE (Mrs. Blair). B'way: The History Boys, Frozen, Titanic, Taking Steps, Whose Life Is It, Anyway? Off B'way: The Dining Room, Hamlet, Aunt Dan and Lemon (Public), American Days, The Miss Firecracker Contest (MTC). TV: NBC series "Buffalo Bill." Film: Mrs. Soffel, The Hurricane, Village of the Damned.
SCOTT SOWER (Mr. Meeker). Mallory Catlett's Oh What War, text by Jason Craig. Broadway: A Streetcar Named Desire, Bus Stop. Nat'l Tour: Col. Jessup- A Few Good Men. 17 productions with Romulus Linney of his plays. Film: My Mother Dreams... with Helen Stenborg (Academy Award, Short Feature)
AMANDA SPRECHER (Melinda). Originally from Penn., she recently appeared as Carrie Ingalls in NY Stage & Film's concert reading, Prairie (B. Henley/R. Portman/D. Dinovelli/F. Zambello, Dir.). Amanda also has commercial/VO, TV and film credits and is excited to be making her Broadway debut.
ERIK STEELE (Esterbrook/Reuters Reporter, u/s Bert Cates, Photographer). Broadway: Roundabout Theatre Co. Other credits: Acting Co. (NYC/Tour), Shakespeare Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Rep, St. Louis Rep, Pioneer Theatre, Olney Theatre, Virginia Stage, Cape Playhouse, Hangar Theatre and Two River Theater. MFA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
JEFF STEITZER (The Mayor, u/s Brady). Broadway debut. Regional Theatres: Seattle Rep., Long Wharf, GEVA, Old Globe, Yale Rep. and Arizona Theatre Co. Film: Beans Of Egypt, Maine, Georgia. TV: "The Fugitive", "Law & Order". Commercials and numerous CD-Rom games including the upcoming HALO 3. For Caitlin and Ben.
HENRY STRAM (Mr. Goodfellow). Broadway: Titanic, The Crucible. Recent credits include: Rocket To The Moon (Long Wharf Theater), Stanley in The Birthday Party (McCarter Theater) and See What I Wanna See (Public Theater). Henry received a 1996 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence.
BEN WALKER (Bert Cates). NY Theater: Three-Penny Opera (RTC's Workshop), Spring Awakening (Lincoln Center Workshop) and Arrangements (ATC). Regional: Romeo and Juliet and Lady Windermere's Fan (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Film: Flag of Our Fathers; Kinsey; The Ballad of Bettie Page and Unconscious. BFA: The Julliard School.
ANDREW WEEMS (Sillers). Broadway: The Green Bird, London Assurance. Off Broadway: Bach at Leipzig (NYTW), Cymbeline, Troilus and Cressida, Pericles (TFANA), Midsummer (Acting Co), Mere Mortals, Marathon Dancing, Princess Turandot. Many years performing all over the US and abroad. Fox/TCG Fellow. Author/performer of Namaste Man, a far-flung tale.