Complete casting for the production, which begins March 4 at the Cort Theatre, was announced Jan. 28. Opening night is March 20.
The tale of iconic party girl Holly Golightly will star Clarke ("Game of Thrones") in that role. Smith, of Cock and The Whale Off-Broadway, co-stars as Fred, who is pulled into Holly's social whirl in 1940s New York City. Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard starred in the famous Blake Edwards film in 1961.
Tony Award winner Greenberg's plays include Take Me Out, Three Days of Rain, Eastern Standard and the coming The Assembled Parties, among others.
Sean Mathias (Broadway's Indiscretions, Marlene, Dance of Death, The Elephant Man) will direct.
Joining the previously announced Clarke, Smith and Wendt are Suzanne Bertish, Danny Binstock, Pedro Carmo, Elisabeth Anthony Gray, Murphy Guyer, Eddie Korbich, Paolo Montalban, Kate Cullen Roberts, John Rothman, Tony Torn, Lee Wilkof and James Yaegashi. According to the producers, "Based on Truman Capote's most beloved masterwork, Breakfast at Tiffany's is set in New York City in 1943. Fred, a young writer from Louisiana, meets Holly Golightly, a charming, vivacious and utterly elusive good-time girl. Everyone falls in love with Holly — including Fred. But Fred is poor, and Holly's other suitors include a playboy millionaire and the future president of Brazil. As war rages on in Europe, Holly begins to fall in love with Fred — just as her past catches up with her."
The creative team for Breakfast at Tiffany's includes Tony Award winner Derek McLane (scenic design), three-time Academy Award winner and current nominee Colleen Atwood (costume design), Tony Award winner Peter Kaczorowski (lighting design), Wendall K. Harrington (projection design) and Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen (music and sound design).
Officially billed as Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, the play is being produced on Broadway by Colin Ingram Productions Limited, Donovan Mannato and Dominic Ianno.
Tickets were previously on sale exclusively to AmEx cardholders through Dec. 23, 2012. General-public tickets are now at Telecharge.com.
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In 2009, Mathias directed a separate adaptation of the Capote novella, in a script by Samuel Adamson, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London.
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" was also notoriously adapted into a 1966 Broadway musical that played a handful of previews but never officially opened at the Majestic Theatre. Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Chamberlain starred, Edward Albee wrote the libretto and Bob Merrill penned the score.
Truman Capote's novella was first published, along with three of his short stories, in book form in 1958, and also appeared unabridged in Esquire magazine in November that year.
Truman Capote (1924-1984) wrote short stories, novels, plays and essays. In 1948 his first novel, "Other Voices, Other Rooms," was published to international critical acclaim. His other iconic works include the novelistic non-fiction bestseller "In Cold Blood," "Music for Chameleons" and "Answered Prayers." His story "A Christmas Memory" was recently adapted into a musical by librettist Duane Poole, lyricist Carol Hall and composer Larry Grossman.
