Dancy, Gaines and Mays Enlist for WWI Drama Journey's End at Belasco

A revival staging of R.C. Sherriff's 1929 war play Journey's End is headed to Broadway. Focusing on a group of World War I soldiers over four days in the trenches at Saint-Quentin, France, the drama will open February 22, 2007, at the Belasco Theatre, according to Variety.

Directed by David Grindley, who helmed a successful West End revival of the show in 2004 that played two separate engagements in London, Journey's End will star Tony Award winners Boyd Gaines and Jefferson Mays, along with film star Hugh Dancy in the central role of Captain Stanhope.

Rising British star Dancy, who will be making his Broadway debut in Journey's End, is best known in America for playing Prince Char in the film Ella Enchanted. He has also been seen in the films Black Hawk Down, King Arthur and Basic Instinct 2. Notable TV credits include the series Cold Feet, Dangerfield and Relic Hunter as well as the TV movies Madame Bovary, David Copperfield and Elizabeth I.

Gaines, who plays second-in-command Lieutenant "Uncle" Osborne, is the winner of three Tony Awards, for The Heidi Chronicles, She Loves Me and Contact. He was last seen on Broadway in the successful Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Twelve Angry Men as Juror #8. Other Broadway credits include The Show Off, Company, Cabaret and Anything Goes.

Mays, who is featured as Private Mason, the cook, won a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award and a Theatre World Award in 2004 for his solo performance in Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife, which he also performanced in London's West End. Off-Broadway credits include Moe's Lucky Seven, Quills, Culture of Desire and Lydia Breeze, Parts I & II.

Performances of Journey's End are schedulued to begin on February 8, 2007.