Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes Team Up for Terrence McNally's Deuce on Broadway

Stage legend Angela Lansbury is returning to Broadway. She will star opposite Marian Seldes in Deuce, a new play by Terrence McNally about two retired women tennis players who once made up a championship doubles team, the New York Post reports. Directed by Michael Blakemore, Deuce will start performances in April at the Music Box Theatre.

Lansbury, who recently turned 81, is a four-time Tony Award winner, having taken home trophies for her turns in the musicals Mame, Dear World, Gypsy and Sweeney Todd. Other notable Broadway credits include the musicals Anyone Can Whistle and The King and I and the plays A Taste of Honey and Hotel Paradiso, in which she made her Broadway debut in 1957. Lansbury was last seen in an unsuccessful revival of Mame that played the Gershwin Theatre in 1983. She was scheduled to appear on Broadway in 2001 in the Kander and Ebb musical The Visit, but pulled out of the production in the summer of 2000 to care for her husband, late producer Peter Shaw.

In addition to her stage credits, Lansbury is a three-time Academy Award nominee for the films Gaslight her first film, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Manchurian Candidate. During a 60 year career in Hollywood, she was also seen in National Velvet, The Harvey Girls, The Three Musketeers, The Long, Hot Summer, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Something for Everyone, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Death on the Nile, The Mirror Crack'd, The Pirates of Penzance and Disney's animated Beauty and the Beast voicing the character of Mrs. Potts. Lansbury has also had a healthy career on the small screen, earning a total of 15 Emmy nominations, including 12 for her hit mystery show Murder, She Wrote, which ran from 1984 to 1996 and also earned her four Golden Globe Awards.

Stage regular Seldes' many Broadway credits include Medea, Crime and Punishment, Tiny Alice, A Delicate Balance Tony Award, Father's Day Tony nomination and Drama Desk Award, Equus, Deathtrap, Ivanov, Ring Round the Moon Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations and Dinner at Eight Tony Award nomination. She most recently appeared off-Broadway in McNally's Dedication, or the Stuff of Dreams at Primary Stages.

Deuce is set to open on May 6, just in time to be eligible for the 2007 Tony Awards.