Casting is announced for “Morning’s at Seven,” a Script in Hand play reading of the Tony Award-winning comedy by Paul Osborn, at Westport Country Playhouse, on Monday, February 13, 7 p.m. Tickets to the one-night-only event are $15.
The cast includes Geneva Carr, Frank Converse, Mia Dillon, Keir Dullea, Beth Fowler, Edward Herrmann, Lisbeth Mackay, Maria Tucci and Stephen Wallem.
Geneva Carr (playing Myrtle Brown) was in Westport Country Playhouse’s “Relatively Speaking,” “Time of My Life” and “How the Other Half Loves.” Off-Broadway, she will appear in “Hand to God,” opening in late February. She was in the North American Tour of “The Vagina Monologues.” Her films include “It’s Complicated”; television includes “The Good Wife” and “The Onion News Network.”
Frank Converse (Thor Swanson) appeared at Westport Country Playhouse in “Real Estate,” “Later Life,” “Camping with Henry and Tom,” “Ancestral Voices” and “Our Town.” On Broadway, he was in the Broadway transfer of “Our Town”; Lincoln Center’s revival of “The Philadelphia Story”; and Circle in the Square’s revivals of “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Design for Living.” Off-Broadway, he was in “House of Blue Leaves.”
Mia Dillon (Cora Swanson) was in Westport Country Playhouse’s “Our Town,” “Angel Street,” “Speed-the-Plow,” “Return Engagements” and “Once a Catholic.” On Broadway, she appeared in “Our Town,” “The Miser,” “The Corn Is Green,” “Hay Fever,” “Crimes of the Heart” (Tony Award nomination, Clarence Derwent Award), “Once a Catholic” (Drama Desk Award nomination), “Agnes of God” and “Da.”
Keir Dullea (Carl Bolton) performed at Westport Country Playhouse in “Star-Spangled Girl” and “Butterflies Are Free.” He has starred in 24 films, including Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and won a Golden Globe Award for “David & Lisa.” Broadway credits include the transfer from Westport Country Playhouse of “Butterflies Are Free”; “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Doubles.” In 1983 Dullea co-founded the Theatre Artists Workshop of Westport.
Beth Fowler (Ida Bolton) appeared at Westport Country Playhouse in “Dear Brutus,” “The Immigrant” and “David Copperfield.” On Broadway, she was in “The Boy from Oz” (Tony Award nomination), “Beauty and the Beast” (created Mrs. Potts on Broadway and in L.A. - Ovation Award) and “Sweeney Todd” (1989 revival, Tony Award nomination). She had starring roles in revivals of “Bells Are Ringing,” “Take Me Along” and “Peter Pan,” and was in the original casts of “Baby” and “A Little Night Music.” Films include “Sister Act.”
Edward Herrmann (David Crampton) was at Westport Country Playhouse in “A Holiday Garland.” Broadway credits include “Plenty” (Tony Award nomination) and “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award nomination). Film includes “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” “Nixon” and “The Aviator.” Television appearances include “St. Elsewhere” (Emmy Award nomination), “The Practice” (Emmy Award) and “Eleanor and Franklin” (Emmy Award nomination).
