Sadoski, who originated the role, is scheduled to return to the cast Dec. 27. Sadoski, according to a show spokesperson, will be filming the new Aaron Sorkin HBO series, which is scheduled to premiere in July 2012.

Risch co-starred opposite Tony winner Stockard Channing, who is temporarily out of Other Desert Cities due to a knee injury, in the Broadway revival of Pal Joey.

The Broadway engagement, which marks Jon Robin Baitz's Broadway playwrighting debut, reunites major players from the Off-Broadway world premiere as well as a handful of new faces.

Original Off-Broadway cast members reprising their performances include Tony winner Stockard Channing (Six Degrees of Separation, The House of Blue Leaves) as family matriarch Polly Wyeth, Golden Globe winner Stacy Keach (Indians, "Hemingway") as her husband Lyman and Tony nominee Sadoski (Reasons to Be Pretty) as their son Trip.

New to the Broadway production are Tony Award nominee Judith Light (Lombardi, "Ugly Betty"), who takes on the role of acidic alcoholic aunt Silda Grauman, with "Brothers & Sisters" star Rachel Griffiths as daughter Brooke Wyeth, who comes home with news of a shattering new book. Linda Lavin and Elizabeth Marvel originated the roles Off-Broadway, respectively. In a recent interview with Playbill, Griffiths discussed the family drama where Mom and Dad run a conservative house and the liberal kids come home for the holidays. "Momentarily you buy into certain clichés: Oh, that's the hippy drunk aunt. This is the mother that can't love, that's frozen in her social self-consciousness. I'm the needy girl that puts art before life. And all the stereotypes exist momentarily, only to be dismantled to find three human and relatable people," she said.

	Judith Light
	photo by Joan Marcus

Channing added, "These very articulate human beings... They can be harsh and they can be rough but they're not unkind. There's none of that creepy, crappy stuff. No manipulation. And they love each other. All these relationships are not echoing that dysfunctional-family cliché. There's something invigorating about these five people that an audience responds to. I think that's why people shift positions. 'Oh, actually he's right.' 'She's got a point there.' 'I didn't think I'd like her but I agree with what she said!'"

Here's how LCT bills the play: "In Other Desert Cities Brooke Wyeth (Griffiths), a once promising novelist, returns home after a six year absence to celebrate Christmas in Palm Springs with her parents, former members of the Reagan inner-circle (Channing and Keach), her brother (Sadoski) and her aunt (Light). When Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir focusing on an explosive chapter in the family’s history, the holiday reunion is thrown into turmoil and the Wyeths are both bound together and torn apart as they struggle to come to terms with their past."

Read the Playbill magazine feature about the new Broadway plays of writers Jon Robin Baitz, David Henry Hwang and David Ives.

The Broadway production features Lincoln Center Theater's original design team: John Lee Beatty (sets), David Zinn (costumes), Kenneth Posner (lighting), Jill BC DuBoff (sound) and Justin Ellington (original music).

Baitz's plays include The Paris Letter, Ten Unknowns, Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks, A Fair Country, The Film Society, The Substance of Fire, The End of the Day and Three Hotels. He has also written the screenplays for "The Substance of Fire" and "People I Know" as well as for TV's "Brothers & Sisters" (which he created), "The West Wing" and "Alias."

For tickets, priced $56.50-$126.50, visit Telecharge. A limited number of tickets priced $31.50 will be available at every performance through LincTix, LCT's new program for 21 to 35 year olds. For information and to enroll, visit LincTix.org.

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