Frank Wood, Michael McGrath & More Join Jim Belushi in Born Yesterday

Tony winner Frank Wood, Tony nominees Michael McGrath and Terry Beaver and Broadway vet Patricia Hodges will join previously announced stars Jim Belushi, Nina Arianda and Robert Sean Leonard in the upcoming Broadway revival of Born Yesterday. Directed by Doug Hughes, the production begins performances on March 31 with opening night set for April 24 at the Cort Theatre.

The cast will also include Fred Arsenault, Bill Christ, Jennifer Regan, Liv Rooth, Danny Rutigliano, Andrew Weems and Robert Emmet Lunney.

Wood received a Tony Award for Side Man. His other Broadway credits include August: Osage County and Hollywood Arms. Woods played Roy Cohn in the current off-Broadway revival of Angels in America and has appeared off-Broadway in Clybourne Park, Spring Awakening and The Wax.

Beaver received a Tony nomination for The Last Night of Ballyhoo. His other Broadway credits include Inherit the Wind, Democracy, Twentieth Century, Henry IV, The Caine-Mutiny Court Marshall and The Man Who Came to Dinner.

Hodges has appeared on Broadway in The American Plan, A Man for All Seasons, Design For Living, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Lion Winter, The Best Man and Six Degrees of Separation.

McGrath received a Tony nomination for Spamalot and has appeared on Broadway in Memphis, Is He Dead?, Wonderful Town, Little Me, Anything Goes, Swinging on a Star, The Goodbye Girl and My Favorite Year.

Born Yesterday originally opened on February 4, 1946, with a cast that included Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn, Paul Douglas as Harry Brock and Gary Merrill as Paul Verrall. The play ran for 1,642 performances and was adapted into a 1950 film that won Holliday a Best Actress Oscar opposite Broderick Crawford as Harry and William Holden as Paul. A 1989 Broadway revival starred Madeline Kahn, Ed Asner and Daniel Hugh Kelly.