Accent on Youth
Broadway Comedy Previews
April 7 2009
Opened April 29 2009
Limited run to June 28 2009
Run 24 previews & 71 performances Producer
Manhattan Theatre Club
Creative
Samson Raphaelson author
Daniel Sullivan director
Jane Greenwood costume design
Brian MacDevitt lighting design
John Lee Beatty scenic design
Obadiah Eaves sound design
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Opening Night Cast |
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Lisa Banes |
Miss Darling |
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Rosie Benton |
Genevieve Lang |
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Curt Bourli |
Butch |
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David Furr |
Dickie Reynolds |
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Mary Catherine Garrison |
Linda Brown |
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Byron Jennings |
Frank Galloway |
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Charles Kimbrough |
Flogdell |
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David Hyde Pierce |
Steven Gaye |
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John Wernke |
Chuck |
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Synopsis
An American farce. When is old too
old, or young too young, to love
A playwright's latest work about a
middle-aged man and much younger woman spurs a succession of
incidents among Steven, Genevieve and Linda, the two young women in
his life, and Dickie, who maybe he doesn't want in his life. But
he's really not sure
Some years earlier it was Steven and
Genevieve, the relationship now renewed. Then suddenly, it's Steven
and Linda, once his secretary, now the leading lady in his new play.
Now it's Linda and Dickie. Or maybe not. Maybe it's Linda and Steven
again. Or maybe Steven wants it to be Dickie and Linda. And then
it's Steven alone
For a Time
Broadway Show History
Accent on Youth's only other
Broadway staging was back in 1934. Opening on Christmas Day, it
featured Nicholas Hannen as Steven Gaye, Constance Cummings as Linda
Brown, Theodore Newton as Dickie Reynolds and Irene Purcell as
Genevieve Lang
In the Movies
There are three different film
versions of Accent. The first was released in 1935 and
directed by Wesley Ruggles. Herbert Marshall played Steven, Sylvia
Sydney as Linda, Phillip Reed as Dickie and Astrid Allwyn as
Genevieve
Bing Crosby starred in a 1950 musical
version titled Mr Music. The lead character is now a song
writer who goes broke because he spends all of his time playing golf
And now it's Russ and Ellie when
Clark Gable and Carroll Baker star in 1959's But Not for Me.
Very similar to the stage play with some complications from the
musical version thrown in for good measure. With Lilli Palmer as
Kathryn Ward (Genevieve) and Barry Coe as Gordon Reynolds (Dickie)
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