Tomei, Plimpton, Marvel, Garrison Set for MTC's Top Girls on Broadway
Mary Catherine Garrison, Elizabeth Marvel, Martha Plimpton and Marisa Tomei will star in Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming Broadway production of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls. Directed by James Macdonald the play will begin previews at the Biltmore Theatre on April 15, 2008, and will open on May 7.
At the Top Girls Employment Agency in London in the early 1980s, Marlene has just been appointed head of the firm. But as this ambitious career woman celebrates her achievements, can we applaud her values? This celebrated work, which had its off-Broadway premiere at the Public Theater in 1982, offers one of the theater's most honest portraits of what it means to be a woman in the modern world.
Marvel has appeared on Broadway in Seascape, An American Daughter, Taking Sides and Saint Joan. Her off-Broadway credits include Terrorism, A Second Hand Memory, Hedda Gabler, Play Yourself, Alice in Bed, Lydie Breeze, A Streetcar Named Desire, Therese Raquin, Misalliance, Henry V, Arts & Leisure, King Lear, Troilus and Cressida and Silence, Cunning, Exile.
Plimpton is currently starring in Lincoln Center Theater's production of Cymbeline and appeared earlier this year in A Midsummer Night's Dream in Central Park and in The Coast of Utopia, for which she received a Tony nomination. Other Broadway credits include Shining City and Sixteen Wounded. Off-Broadway credits include The False Servant, Flesh and Blood, Boston Marriage, Hobson's Choice, subUrbia, Pericles and The Haggadah.
Tomei, an Oscar winner for My Cousin Vinny, has appeared on Broadway in Salome and Wait Until Dark. She received a Theatre World Award for Daughters and has appeared off-Broadway in The Vagina Monologues, Demonology, Dark Rapture, Slavs!, The Comedy of Errors and What the Butler Saw. On the big screen, she is currently co-starring in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.
