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The Marriage of Bette and Boo
Cast

TERRY BEAVERTERRY BEAVER (Father Donnally / Doctor). Broadway: Inherit the Wind, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Democracy, Twentieth Century, Henry IV, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Tony nomination, OCC Award). Regional: Proof (Coconut Grove), How I Learned to Drive (Dallas Theater Center), Angels in America, Betrayal, The Dining Room. Features: Imaginary Heroes, Hearts in Atlantis, Company Man, Pulse. Television: “West Wing,” “Shot in the Heart” (HBO Film), “Now and Again,” “Law & Order,” “Third Watch,” “The Price of a Broken Heart,” “Sins of the City,” “Profiler,” “A Season in Purgatory,” “The Client,” “I'll Fly Away,” “In the Heat of the Night.”

HEATHER BURNSHEATHER BURNS (Emily Brennan). Stage credits include Fran's Bed and Lobby Hero both at Playwrights Horizons, Woody Allen's Writers Block (Atlantic Theater) and the West End production of This Is Our Youth (Garrick Theatre). Her film credits include You've Got Mail, Miss Congeniality, Miss Congeniality 2, Kill the Poor, Two Weeks Notice, Bewitched, The Groomsmen, Choke (2008 Sundance Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble Cast) and the upcoming Ashes, which she executive produced and co-wrote.

VICTORIA CLARKVICTORIA CLARK (Margaret Brennan). Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle award winner for The Light in the Piazza. Roundabout: Cabaret, A Grand Night for Singing. Other Broadway: Titanic, How to Succeed..., Urinetown, Guys and Dolls, Sunday in the Park... Encores!: Juno, Follies, Bye Bye Birdie. Carnegie Hall: Opening Doors Stephen Sondheim tribute. Film: The Happening, Cradle Will Rock, Tickling Leo. Concert: American Songbook series, Allen Room. Television: “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU.” Solo debut album: Fifteen Seconds of Grace (PS Classics). Master Teacher/Guest Lecturer for universities across the country. www.victoriaclarkonline.com

JOHN GLOVERJOHN GLOVER (Karl Hudlocke). Recent - Roundabout: The Paris Letter (Drama Desk, Drama League & Lortel noms.). Many Broadway including The Drowsy Chaperone, Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony & Obie awards), Design for Living, Frankenstein, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Great God Brown (Drama Desk Award). Many Off-Broadway: Sorrows and Rejoicings, Oblivion Postponed, Digby, The House of Blue Leaves, The Winter's Tale (Bayfield Award). TV: “Smallville”; five Emmy nominations. Film includes Payback, Batman and Robin, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Scrooged, Gremlins 2, Julia and Annie Hall.

KATE JENNINGS GRANTKATE JENNINGS GRANT (Bette Brennan). Broadway: Proof, An American Daughter. Off-Broadway: The Beard of Avon, Between Us, Radiant Baby, Summer of '42. Regional: Blithe Spirit, Talley's Folly, The Heidi Chronicles, The Misanthrope, A Little Night Music. National tour: Finian's Rainbow, Applause. TV: “Cold Case,” “3 Lbs,” “Commander in Chief,” “Law & Order,” “Sex and the City.” Film: Diane Sawyer in Ron Howard's upcoming Frost/Nixon, The Rebound (2009), United 93, When a Stranger Calls, Forgiven, Trust the Man, Kinsey. Graduate of Juilliard and the University of Pennsylvania.

JULIE HAGERTYJULIE HAGERTY (Soot Hudlocke). Hagerty's screen credits include Airplane, Lost in America, The Story of Us, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Beyond Therapy, What about Bob?, Noises Off, UTurn, The Wife, Mel, She's the Man and Just Friends. Stage: Hagerty received the Drama Critics Award for her role in Raised in Captivity and the Theatre World Award for The House of Blue Leaves. Additionally, The Odd Couple, Moon Over Miami, Born Yesterday, Front Page and A Cheever Evening. TV includes “Reunited,” “ER,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “The Norm Show” and “Murphy Brown.”

ADAM LeFEVREADAM LeFEVRE (Paul Brennan). Fourth show at Roundabout, having appeared in The Doctor's Dilemma, Summer and Smoke and Frank Langella's Cyrano. Broadway credits include The Devil's Disciple, Our Country's Good, Footloose (directed by Walter Bobbie) and Mamma Mia. His many films include The Return of the Secaucus 7, The Ref, Only You, Hearts in Atlantis, You Can Count on Me, Fool's Gold. For HBO Films he did “Empire Falls” and “Recount,” and he just completed She's Out of My League, a comedy from Dreamworks.

ZOE LISTER-JONESZOE LISTER-JONES (Joan Brennan). Broadway: The Little Dog Laughed. Off-Broadway: The Little Dog Laughed (Second Stage), The Accomplices (The New Group), Codependence is a Four-Letter Word: a one-woman show (P.S.122). TV: “The Class,” “Law & Order,” “Kidnapped,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Law & Order: SVU and “Law & Order: Trial by Jury.” Film: All Good Things, State of Play, Explicit Ills, The Marconi Brothers, Turn the River and Arranged. She is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

CHARLES SOCARIDESCHARLES SOCARIDES (Matt). Theatre: Awake and Sing! (Belasco Theatre), Indian Blood (Primary Stages, dir. Mark Lamos), Old Money (Lincoln Center), Lulu (Yale Rep), Substitution (New York Stage & Film), The Paris Letter (Ars Nova, workshop). Film: The Missing Person, Penance (both upcoming), Jesus Children of America (dir. Spike Lee), Virgin (dir. Deborah Kampmeier), Dinner Rush. TV: “Law & Order,” “Guiding Light,” “Starved.” Training: The Actors Center.

CHRISTOPHER EVAN WELCHCHRISTOPHER EVAN WELCH (Boo Hudlocke). Previously at Roundabout: Scapin, London Assurance, A Skull in Connemara. NY plays: Romeo and Juliet (NYSF), The Scene, The Pain and the Itch, Festen, The Crucible, Romance, Writer's Block, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing (NYSF), Measure for Measure (NYSF), A Streetcar Named Desire (NYTW, Obie Award). Film: Synechdoche, New York; Vicky Christina Barcelona; Woody Allen Summer Project '09; The Hoax; The Interpreter; War of the Worlds; The Stepford Wives. TV: “The Sopranos,” “Law & Order: CI” and “SVU,” “The Practice.”



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CHRISTOPHER DURANG (Playwright). His plays include A History of the American Film (Tony nomination), Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You (Obie Award), Beyond Therapy, Baby with the Bathwater, The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Obie Award), Laughing Wild, Betty's Summer Vacation (Obie Award), Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge (2002), Miss Witherspoon (2005, Pulitzer finalist). His and Peter Melnick's musical Adrift in Macao premiered in NYC in 2007. Durang has just completed a new play commission for The Public Theater. He and Marsha Norman have been co-chairs of the Playwriting Program at The Juilliard School for 14 years. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council. www.christopherdurang.com

WALTER BOBBIE (Director). most recently directed David Ives' New Jerusalem at Classic Stage Company and No, No, Nanette at City Center's Encores! His international hit Chicago won him the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards and has become the longest-running revival in Broadway history. Other Broadway credits include High Fidelity, Sweet Charity and Roundabout's Twentieth Century. Mr. Bobbie has directed productions for the New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theater and Sundance, and his production of Irving Berlin's White Christmas has become a holiday favorite in the US and England. Mr. Bobbie served as Artistic Director of City Center's Encores! and is on the Executive Board of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

 


Last Update:
May 4, 2008