Full Cast Announced for Roundabout's Constant Wife

Democracy co-stars Michael Cumpsty and John Dossett will star alongside Kate Burton and Lynn Redgrave in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of W. Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife. The cast will also include Enid Graham, Kathryn Meisle, Denis Homes, John Ellison Conlee and Kathleen McNenney.

Cumpsty and Dossett are currently appearing together in Democracy, which closes on April 17. Cumpsty's other Broadway credits include Enchanted April, 42nd Street, Copenhagen, Electra, 1776, Racing Demon, The Heiress, Translations, La Bete, Timon of Athens, Artist Descending a Staircase. For the New York Shakespeare Festival, where he also teaches, Cumpsty has been featured in seven productions. He will play John Middleton, husband of Burton's Constance Middleton, in The Constant Wife.

Dossett, who will play Bernard Kersal in The Constant Wife, received a Tony nomination for his featured work as Herbie in the most recent Broadway revival of Gypsy. In addition to that musical and Democracy, his other Broadway credits include King of Schnorrers, Fifth of July, Prelude to a Kiss, Ragtime, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and An Almost Holy Picture. While he is appearing in The Constant Wife, his real-life wife, Tony winner Michele Pawk, will be appearing in another Roundabout production--she was recently announced for The Paris Letter at the company's off-Broadway home, the Laura Pels Theatre.

Graham received a Theatre World Award and was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in Honour. Meisle received a Tony nomination for her performance in the Roundabout's revival of Tartuffe. Holmes' Broadway credits include Troilus and Cressida, The Homecoming, An Ideal Husband and Major Barbara. Conlee received a Tony nomination for his performance in The Full Monty and has also appeared on the Great White Way in 1776. McNenney appeared on Broadway earlier this season in the Roundabout's staging of Arthur Miller's After the Fall.

The Constant Wife is a social comedy of marital maneuvers in 1920s upper class London. Constance Middleton Burton discovers that her husband Cumpsty is having an affair with her best friend Meisle. Rather than humiliating herself and others, she denies the affair, defends the two, and sets about turning bad luck, unfaithful friends, local gossip and a broken heart to her own advantage. Dossett's character is a former flame of Constance's with whom she decides to have her own affair. The mounting, directed by Mark Brokaw, is scheduled to begin performances at the American Airlines Theatre on May 27 and run through August 7. An official opening is set for June 16.