Countryman, Frechette and Rodgers Join McNally's Dedication

Michael Countryman, Peter Frechette and R.E. Rodgers will join previously announced star Marian Seldes in the Primary Stages mounting of Terrence McNally's Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams. The production, directed by Michael Morris, is scheduled to begin previews on July 26 in preparation for an August 18 opening.

Countryman has appeared on Broadway in Face Value, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Holiday and Night Must Fall. His other credits include Terra Nova, The Miss Firecracker Contest, The Common Pursuit, Woman in Mind, The Tempest, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Where the Truth Lies, A Flea in Her Ear, House, Garden, The Stendhal Syndrome and The Bald Soprano and The Lesson.

Frechette received Tony nominations for his work in Eastern Standard and Our Country's Good. He also appeared on the Great White Way in Any Given Day and The Play's the Thing. His off-Broadway credits include Hyde in Hollywood, Absent Friends, Raised in Captivity, Night and Her Stars, What the Butler Saw, Hurrah at Last, The Dazzle, Flesh and Blood and Valhalla.

Rodgers appeared with Seldes in Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams at the Williamstown Theatre Festival last summer. He played James Robson on the series Oz, was featured earlier this season on the TV's Johnny Zero.

Dedication, or the Stuff of Dreams centers on Lou Nuncle Frechette and Jessie Nuncle, who run a children's theater in a mall in upstate New York. When the possibility of taking over an abandoned vaudeville palace arises, the Nuncles are forced to examine how far their love of theater will take them.

Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams is scheduled to run off-Broadway through September 18.