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On Golden Pond
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Nominated For:
Best Revival of a Play
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (James Earl Jones)
Cort Theatre
Opening Date: April 7, 2005
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The Story
A retired New England professor named Norman Thayer (James Earl Jones) and his spirited wife, Ethel (Leslie Uggams), decide to spend one final summer at their family's lakeside cottage in Maine. En route to a European honeymoon, the couple's estranged daughter, Chelsea, arrives to leave behind her fiancé's troubled young son. Colliding generations soon forge common ground, but when Chelsea returns to discover Norman playing the father she never had, years of bitter memories and resentment rise to the surface. Ernest Thompson's intimate family drama explores growing up, growing old, and growing closer.
History
Frances Sternhagen and Tom Aldredge starred in the original production of On Golden Pond, which opened at Broadway's New Apollo Theatre on February 28, 1979. The film adaptation, which was released two years later, starred Katherine Hepburn and Henry Fonda, with Jane Fonda as Chelsea. This production premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., before traveling north to New York.
More On Golden Pond stuff!
Cast and Production Credits from Internet Broadway Database
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