Driving Miss Daisy

A round-up of reviews of Driving Miss Daisy at the Wyndham's Theatre. Oscar and Tony award-winning actors Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones star in the London transfer of the smash-hit Broadway production of Driving Miss Daisy, by Pulitzer Prize-winner Alfred Uhry. Book tickets to  Driving Miss Daisy at the Wyndham's Theatre in London [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones in Driving Miss Daisy"][/caption]  

London transfer for Broadway's Driving Miss Daisy. As previously tipped, recent Tony Award nominee Vanessa Redgrave will return home to London this October, bringing her successful Broadway performance in Driving Miss Daisy to the West End for a 12 week run. The play will run at the Wyndham's Theatre from 26 September to 17 December 2011. Her New York colleagues, James Earl Jones and Boyd Gaines, will join her in London before a US tour of the show in Autumn 2012. Driving Miss Daisy, which is directed by David Esbjornson, was written by Alfred Uhry and the 1989 movie version starring Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy and Dan Aykroyd won four Oscars. James Earl Jones was last seen in the West End in 2009 in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre. LINKS Book tickets to Driving Miss Daisy at the Wyndham's Theatre in London RUMOUR CHECK-LIST Show: Driving Miss Daisy Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, James Earl Jones, Boyd Gaines Writer: Alfred Uhry Director: David Esbjornson Theatre: Wyndham's Date: 26 September 2011 [caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones in the Broadway production of Driving Miss Daisy"][/caption]

The producers of the current Broadway production of Driving Miss Daisy, based on the hit 1989 film, plan to bring the show to London this Autumn. The West End transfer will include the New York cast of Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones. The show started on Broadway in October last year and became an immediate hit thanks to the star names and love for the Oscar-winning movie. Redgrave was last in the West End in 2008 in one-woman play The Year of Magical Thinking. Earl Jones starred in last year's Debbie Allen revival of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre. The show closes at the Golden Theatre on Broadway on 9 April 2011. LINKS Book tickets to Driving Miss Daisy at the Wyndham's Theatre in London RUMOUR CHECK-LIST Show: Driving Miss Daisy Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, James Earl Jones Writer: Alfred Uhry Director: David Esbjornson Theatre: TBC Date: Autumn 2011 Source: Variety (09/03/11)