Five-time Tony Award nominee Tom Aldredge has joined the cast of the off-Broadway musical Mimi le Duck as Ziggy, a war veteran and owner of a Parisian nightclub. He joins previously announced stars Candy Buckley, Robert DuSold, Allen Fitzpatrick, Annie Golden, Ken Jennings, Marcus Neville and Eartha Kitt. Mimi le Duck will begin previews on October 11 at off-Broadway's New World Stages, directed by Thomas Caruso.
The new musical follows Miriam Golden, a discontented Mormon housewife from Ketchum, Idaho, who, in a moment of desperately crazy inspiration, packs her bags and moves to Paris, leaving behind her husband and her successful career as a painter of duck canvases for the QVC Network. Mimi le Duck has book and lyrics by Diana Hansen-Young, music by Brian Feinstein and musical staging by Matt West Beauty and the Beast.
Aldredge was recently seen in the Roundabout Theatre's productions of Twelve Angry Men and Twentieth Century, for which he received his fifth Tony nomination and the Actors' Equity Foundation Richard Seff Award for character actors over 50. His other Tony Award nominations were for performances in Sticks and Bones, Where's Charley?, The Little Foxes and Passion. Since making his Broadway debut in 1959, he has appeared in 30 productions, including Slapstick Tragedy, Vieux Carre, On Golden Pond, 1776, Inherit the Wind, The Crucible and Into the Woods. Film credits include Rounders, Intolerable Cruelty, Cold Mountain, Brokeback Mountain, What About Bob?, Message in a Bottle and Game 6. On television, he plays Edie Falco's father, Hugh DeAngelis, on HBO's The Sopranos.
Mimi le Duck is set to open off-Broadway on October 31.
