Plummer Returns To Broadway
Canadian Actor To Star In Revival Of Inherit The Wind
Christopher Plummer, the Tony Award-winning actor, is set to tread the boards once again in the Broadway revival of Inherit The Wind.
Plummer will play the role of Henry Drummond, and opposite him will be Brian Dennehy playing the role of Matthew Harrison Brady.
Inherit The Wind premiered in 1955, and was written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Based on the Scopes Monkey Trial, which took place in 1925, it deals with two lawyers who are at odds over the right of a teacher to teach his students Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
A film version of the play arrived in 1960, starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March and Gene Kelly. The play was last seen on Broadway in 1996, starring Charles Durning and George C. Scott as the two lawyers.
Doug Hughes, known for his direction of the play Doubt, helms the production, set to begin a limited 12-week engagment in March 2007.
Christopher Plummer is best known for his role as Captain Von Trapp opposite Julie Andrews in The Sound Of Music, and last appeared on Broadway in the Stratford Festival of Canada re-mount of King Lear in 2004.
Brian Dennehy last appeared in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, which he won a Best Actor Tony Award. He also won the Tony Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Willy Loman in Death Of A Salesman.
