Acorn Theater

Opens :  20th September 2006
Closes : 25th November 2006

Tony Award winning actress Cynthia Nixon is going back to school this fall as a tough-minded schoolteacher in 1930s Scotland. The Sex and the City star and 2006 Tony Award winner headlines the New Group's much-anticipated off-Broadway revival of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. The play examines the complex motives and beliefs of the title character, who decides to transform a select group of students into the crème de la crème at the all-girls' Marcia Blaine School in Edinburgh. Her followers dub themselves "the Brodie Set," but when Miss Brodie's Fascist sympathies surface, the teacher-student relationship assumes a more dangerous tone.

Based on the popular 1961 novel by Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was transformed into a play by Jay Presson Allen in 1968. The title role has been a lucky charm for actresses: Zoe Caldwell won a Tony for her performance on Broadway, and Maggie Smith won an Oscar for the 1969 film version. Now a new generation can get to know this charismatic, controversial teacher in a production directed by New Group artistic director Scott Elliott.

Creators
Based on the novel by Muriel Spark
Adapted by Jay Presson Allen
Directed by Scott Elliot

Cast
Cynthia Nixon as Miss Jean Brodie
Lisa Emery, Miss Mackay
John Pankow as Gordon Lowther
Emily Bicks, Girl
Ritchie Coster, Teddy Lloyd
Betsy Hogg, Mary MacGregor
Zoe Kazan, Sandy
Caroline Lagerfelt, Sister Helena
Caity Quinn, Another Girl
Matthew Rauch, Mr. Perry
Sarah Steele, Monica
Halley Wegryn Gross, Jenny

Audience:  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is appropriate for children aged 12 and over.  Children under 4 years of age will not be admitted into the Acorn Theater.

Run time:  TBA

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