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News NJ’s George Street Hears Gurney’s Ancestral Voices, May 3-May 28 Its New York run only recently finished, Ancestral Voices is now back in the tri-State area, with New Jersey’s George Street Playhouse hosting the regional premiere of A.R. Gurney’s play, which began previews April 29 for an official opening May 3 and a run through May 28. Artistic director David Saint will stage the piece, which ended its Off-Broadway premiere at Lincoln Center April 3. As with the New York production, the George Street mounting uses rotating casts each week.
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Its New York run only recently finished, Ancestral Voices is now back in the tri-State area, with New Jersey’s George Street Playhouse hosting the regional premiere of A.R. Gurney’s play, which began previews April 29 for an official opening May 3 and a run through May 28. Artistic director David Saint will stage the piece, which ended its Off-Broadway premiere at Lincoln Center April 3. As with the New York production, the George Street mounting uses rotating casts each week.

The first week (April 29-May 7) is fully cast, with Frances Sternhagen (The Exact Center of the Universe), George Grizzard (A Delicate Balance), Jack Gilpin (The Foreigner), Julie Haggerty (Wifey) and Paul Rudd (Twelfth Night).

The second week (May 9-14) will bring John Cullum (Shenandoah), Penny Fuller (A New Brain), Tim Daly and his real-life wife, Amy Van Nostrand.

Week three (May 16-21) will feature Conrad Bain (TV’s “Maude”), Jane Powell, Roger Bart (You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown), James Rebhorn and Karen Valentine (TV’s “Room 222,” Breaking Legs).

The fourth week (May 23-28) will offer newly-announced Kelly Bishop and Ma and Pa Walton -- Michael Learned and Ralph Waite -- as well as “The Wonder Years’” Fred Savage. In Voices, five actors sit on stage and read the script (making it easy for changing casts) about a family whose lives are turned inside out when young Eddie's grandmother unexpectedly divorces his grandfather to marry the grandfather's best friend.

The play will also be seen at Westport Country Playhouse in CT in July, with Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Scott Wolf and Swoosie Kurtz among the luminaries taking part.

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Tickets to Ancestral Voices are available by calling George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick, at (732) 246-7717.

-- By David Lefkowitz

 
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