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In the wake of World War II, a poor widow named Serafina lives with her only daughter Rosa in a Sicilian community on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. As Rosa grows to maturity, Serafina is forced to reconcile the values of the New World with the deeply-held pain of her past.
This L.A. Theatre Works recording reunites Mercedes Ruehl and Anthony LaPaglia, who starred in the 1995 Broadway production that earned a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, and Drama Desk Awards for both actors.
Recorded at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in December 1999.
Directed by Richard Masur
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:
Emily Bergl as Rosa
Marieclare Costello as Peppina and Bessie
Tim DeKay as Jack
Brent Hinkley as a Doctor and Salesman
Anthony LaPaglia as Alvaro
Carol Locatell as Guiseppina
Kate Mulligan as Estelle, Miss Yorke
Antonia Ray as Assunta
Peggy Roeder as The Strega
Mercedes Ruehl as Serafina
Vincent Schiavelli as Father DeLeo
Claudette Sutherland as Violetta and Flora
Stage Manager and Live Sound Effects: Jane Slater
Assistant Stage Manager: Cary Thompson
Radio production by Raymond Guarna
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About Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), born Thomas Lanier in Columbus, Mississippi, won Pulitzer Prizes for his dramas A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Other plays include The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, Suddenly Last Summer, Sweet Bird of Youth, and Night of the Iguana. He also wrote a number of one-act plays, short stories, poems, and two novels, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and Moishe and the Age of Reason. He died at the age of seventy-two.
About the Narrators
Stanley Tucci is an actor, writer, director, and producer. He has directed five films and appeared in over seventy films, countless television shows, and a dozen plays on and off Broadway. He has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and a spoken word Grammy; is a winner of two Golden Globes and two Emmys; and has received numerous other critical and professional awards and accolades. He is also author of two cookbooks, The Tucci Table and The Tucci Cookbook.
Kate Mulligan has acted with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for more than ten seasons in productions including Hairspray, Alice in Wonderland, and Sense and Sensibility. Her film and television work includes Being John Malkovich and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Brent Hinkley was born on April 12, 1962 in East Boston, Massachusetts. He is an actor, known for The Silence of the Lambs, Ed Wood, and Falling Down.
Bleak December Inc. is a multimedia company founded by Canadian actor and filmmaker Anthony D.P. Mann.