In this darkly comic 1939 Broadway classic, film and television veterans Joanne Whalley, Heidi Dippold, and Molly C. Quinn take center stage—an opportunity actresses didn’t often find in mid-twentieth-century American theater. It’s 1900 in the heart of Dixie, and two brothers are plotting to build a cotton mill with $75,000 “borrowed” from the family. Their sister, played with devious glee by Joanne Whalley, gets wind of their scheme and, against her sister-in-law’s and daughter’s better natures, profits by turning the brothers’ plans against them. All the narrators sport dead-on Southern accents. A piercing examination of the Old South that proves a woman can be just as devilish and greedy as any man. Fine performances all around. B.P. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
Lillian Hellman examines a wealthy Southern family and the greed that tears them apart. Regina's brothers have inherited their father's wealth, while after years of neglect, her dying husband is determined to see she gets nothing. It will take every ounce of her ruthless guile to outwit her relations and assure herself a gilded future.
Directed by Rosalind Ayres.
- Starring, in alphabetical order:
- Will Brittain as Leo Hubbard
- Tim DeKay as Ben Hubbard
- Heidi Dippold as Birdie Hubbard
- Jamie Harris as Oscar Hubbard
- Jared Harris as Horace Giddens
- Larry Powell as Cal
- Molly C. Quinn as Alexandra Giddens
- Albie Selznick as William Marshall
- Joanne Whalley as Regina Giddens
- Karen Malina White as Addie
Sound Effects Artist, Aaron Lyons. Piano solos and duets played by Nicholas Hormann and Katie Hume. Script Supervisor, Daniel Trostler. Music Supervisor, Ronn Lipkin. Production Manager, Katie Friesen. Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Editor, Julian Nicholson. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.
Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA, in October of 2018.
Lillian Hellman examines a wealthy Southern family and the greed that tears them apart. Regina's brothers have inherited their father's wealth, while after years of neglect, her dying husband is determined to see she gets nothing. It will take every ounce of her ruthless guile to outwit her relations and assure herself a gilded future.
Directed by Rosalind Ayres.
- Starring, in alphabetical order:
- Will Brittain as Leo Hubbard
- Tim DeKay as Ben Hubbard
- Heidi Dippold as Birdie Hubbard
- Jamie Harris as Oscar Hubbard
- Jared Harris as Horace Giddens
- Larry Powell as Cal
- Molly C. Quinn as Alexandra Giddens
- Albie Selznick as William Marshall
- Joanne Whalley as Regina Giddens
- Karen Malina White as Addie
Sound Effects Artist, Aaron Lyons. Piano solos and duets played by Nicholas Hormann and Katie Hume. Script Supervisor, Daniel Trostler. Music Supervisor, Ronn Lipkin. Production Manager, Katie Friesen. Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Editor, Julian Nicholson. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.
Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA, in October of 2018.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940170364640 |
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| Publisher: | L.A. Theatre Works |
| Publication date: | 01/15/2019 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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