Victoria Clark, John Glover & More to Star in Roundabout's The Marriage of Bette and Boo
Tony Award winners Victoria Clark and John Glover are among the complete cast of Roundabout Theatre Company's forthcoming off-Broadway revival of Christopher Durang's The Marriage of Bette and Boo. The production will begin previews at the Laura Pels Theatre on June 13 and will open on July 10. The limited engagement is scheduled to run through September 7, directed by Walter Bobbie.
Clark will appear as the mother of the bride, Margaret Brennan, with Glover and Julie Hagerty as the father and mother of the groom, Karl and Soot Hudlocke. Also in the cast are Kate Jennings Grant Proof, An American Daughter as Bette Brennan, Christopher Evan Welch Festen, The Pain and the Itch, The Scene as Boo Hudlocke, Terry Beaver The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, The Last Night of Ballyhoo as Father Donnally, Heather Burns Writer's Block, All Things Considered as Emily Brennan, Adam Lefevre Mamma Mia!, Footloose as Paul Brennen and Charles Socarides Indian Blood, Old Money as Matt.
Clark won a Tony Award for The Light in the Piazza and appeared on Broadway credits include Titanic, How to Suceed…, Urinetown, Cabaret, Guys and Dolls, A Grand Night for Singing and Sunday in the Park with George. She also appeared in Encores! productions of Juno, Follies and Bye Bye Birdie.
Glover won a Tony Award for Love! Valour! Compassion! and has appeared on Broadway in The Drowsy Chaperone, Design for Living, Whodunnit, and Frankenstein, among many others. Glover was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his performance in the Roundabout production of The Paris Letter. On TV, he currently plays Lionel Luthor in Smallville.
Hagerty has performed in Morning's at Seven and The Front Page at Lincoln Center, as well as A Cheever Evening at Playwrights Horizons and The Odd Couple at South Coast Repertory Theatre in California. Film work includes Airplane!, She's the Man, Just Friends and Lost in America.
Durang's plays include A History of the American Film, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Beyond Therapy, Laughing Wild, Sex and Longing and Betty's Summer Vacation. He wrote the book and lyrics for the recent off-Broadway musical Adrift in Macao. As an actor, Durang shared an ensemble Obie Award for the Public Theater's 1985 premiere production of The Marriage of Bette and Boo in which he played the narrator, Matt and co-starred with Julie Andrews in the off-Broadway Sondheim revue Putting It Together.
The design team for The Marriage of Bette and Boo will include David Korins sets, Susan Hilferty costumes, Donald Holder lights and Nevin Steinberg sound.
