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News Long Day's Journey Tix Go on Sale March 9 Tickets to the 2003 Broadway revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night, which will play the Plymouth Theatre, go on sale via Telecharge March 9.

As previously announced, previews begin April 26, for an opening May 6. Call (212) 239-6200. Tickets are available at the box office from April 7 on.

Brian Dennehy plays miserly patriarch James Tyrone, Vanessa Redgrave is addicted wife and mother Mary Tyrone, Robert Sean Leonard is sickly son Edmund and Philip Seymour Hoffman is wastrel son James (Jamie) Jr.

The top ticket price will be $100, owing, Richenthal told The Daily News, to a long, six-week rehearsal period, overtime expenses incurred by the three-and-one-half hour running time and a seven show week (one less than usual).

Robert Falls directs the Broadway staging. Falls helmed a 2002 staging of the play at The Goodman Theatre in Chicago, with Dennehy, who is the only holdover from that mounting. Producer David Richenthal, Max Cooper, Anthony and Charlene Marshall, Eric Falkenstein, Kara Medoff and Darren Bagert are behind the new Broadway production, inspired by the Goodman staging. Designers are Santo Loquasto (set and costume), Brian MacDevitt (lighting) and Richard Woodbury (sound).

The rich family drama by O'Neill, inspired by events and tensions in his own family, is set in 1912, in the New England home of a miserly actor whose poet son is tubercular and whose wife is drug-addicted. Both ailments are due to ineffective treatments from the local quack doctor (used by the family because he's so affordable, son James accuses). On a long summer day, the family members scratch and probe their pasts and their choices, tugging at the mask of denial in their shared experience. O'Neill demanded the play not be performed until 25 years after his death (he died in 1953), but its American premiere came in 1956, directed by Jose Quintero. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The first New York staging starred Jason Robards Jr. as Jamie; he would later play the aged Jamie in the related O'Neill Play, A Moon for the Misbegotten.

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Falls, Dennehy and Richenthal are the team that gave Broadway the Tony winning revival of Death of a Salesman.

Redgrave is, along with Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, one of the leading actresses of London theatre. She last acted on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending in a grand performance that divided critics. Since then, she has appeared Off Broadway in Vita and Virginia, with Eileen Atkins, and Antony and Cleopatra at the Public Theater.

Leonard won the Tony Award for The Invention of Love, Hoffman appeared in True West on Broadway and in The Public Theater's summer staging of The Seagull, with Meryl Streep.

 
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