Tyne Daly, Brian Murray coming to McCarter

That's some cast that Emily Mann has gathered for the world premiere of Edward Albee's "Me, Myself and I" at McCarter (Jan. 11-Feb. 17). See the details below.

Me, myself and the Missus will be at Centenary College tonight for their season-opener, "School of Wives." Centenary is hit-and-miss for me, but I'm looking forward to seeing artistic director Carl Wallnau onstage for the first time. He's done a lot of work on other Jersey stages and I've read some glowing reviews, but I've never seen him act.


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TYNE DALY AND BRIAN MURRAY TO STAR
IN THE WORLD PREMIERE OF EDWARD ALBEE’S MY, MYSELF AND I
AT PRINCETON’S McCARTER THEATRE CENTER

DIRECTED BY McCARTER ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EMILY MANN,
THE PRODUCTION RUNS FROM JANUARY 11 THROUGH FEBRUARY 17, 2008

The nationally acclaimed McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey, is pleased to announce that TYNE DALY and BRIAN MURRAY will play the leads in the upcoming world premiere of Edward Albee’s Me, Myself and I. Directed by Artistic Director Emily Mann, the production plays the Berlind Theatre of McCarter Theatre Center from January 11 through February 17, 2008.

When a pair of identical twin brothers both named Otto, how’s a mother (played by Ms. Daly) supposed to keep them straight? Master playwright Edward Albee is in top form with this dark, funny and moving play that takes sibling rivalry to existential heights.

Widely considered one of the most versatile actresses of her generation -- with a wide range of roles on stage and television – Me, Myself and I marks the first time that Ms. Daly has performed in a play by Edward Albee. She joins a growing list of distinguished actresses in recent years to appear in plays by the three-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright: Kathleen Turner, Dame Maggie Smith, Rosemary Harris, Marian Seldes, Elaine Stritch, Sally Field, Mercedes Ruehl, to name a few.

Winner of the 1990 Tony Award for her portrayal of Rose in Gypsy, TYNE DALY was seen on Broadway in the world premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole and in the 1992 revival of Chekov’s The Seagull opposite Jon Voight, Laura Linney, and Ethan Hawke. For her work in television, Daly has been honored with six Emmy Awards. She received the Emmy Award four times for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her work in Cagney and Lacey, and two Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Emmys: one for Christy and another for Judging Amy.

A leading Albee interpreter, BRIAN MURRAY, has appeared in Albee's The Play About the Baby and Beckett/Albee Off-Broadway. He is a three-time Tony nominee for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Little Foxes and The Crucible, as well as a recipient of multiple Obie (Ashes and Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby) and Drama Desk (Noises Off, Travels with My Aunt and The Little Foxes) Awards. Also a distinguished director, his Broadway directing credits include Hay Fever, Arsenic and Old Lace, Blithe Spirit and The Circle. His film and television work includes Bob Roberts; City Hall; Treasure Planet (voice of John Silver); The Investigation, Liberty, Hamlet, Twelfth Night. Mr. Murray is the recipient of a 1998 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence and the 1998 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work; as well as a Fox Foundation Fellow.






Multi award-winning Director and Playwright EMILY MANN received a 2003 Obie Award for her direction of Edward Albee’s All Over with Rosemary Harris and Michael Learned. Ms. Mann’s McCarter directing credits include Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer-Prize winning Anna in the Tropics with Jimmy Smits (also on Broadway), the world premiere of Christopher Durang’s Miss Witherspoon (also off-Broadway), Uncle Vanya with Amanda Plummer, The Cherry Orchard with Jane Alexander, John Glover and Avery Brooks, Three Sisters with Frances McDormand, Linda Hunt and Mary Stuart Masterson, A Doll House with Cynthia Nixon, and The Glass Menagerie with Shirley Knight. Her plays include Having Our Say (3 Tony nominations), Execution of Justice, Still Life, Greensboro (A Requiem), Annulla, An Autobiography, and her most recent, Mrs. Packard (2007 Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award).

Four major productions of work by playwright EDWARD ALBEE – who celebrates his 80th birthday on March 12, 2008 – will be presented in and around New York during the 2007-08 season. Collectively entitled, “The Albee Season,” the plays – from Peter and Jerry at Second Stage Theatre to Me, Myself and I at McCarter Theatre, to The Sandbox and The American Dream at Cherry Lane Theatre and Occupant at Signature Theatre – span 50 years of Mr. Albee’s singular career, from his first play The Zoo Story written in 1958 (now part of Peter and Jerry) to his newest plays Me, Myself and I and Occupant, premiering in 2008.
EDWARD ALBEE’s plays include the Tony Award-winning Best Plays Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays A Delicate Balance, Seascape and Three Tall Women. Other Albee plays presented in New York in recent seasons include The Play About the Baby, Counting the Ways, Tiny Alice, Marriage Play and All Over. In 2005, Mr. Albee received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, and previously received the Gold Medal in Drama from American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, as well as the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts.
This season-long array of plays – premieres, early works and a double-bill comprised of both the old and new – serves as a reminder of why Mr. Albee is widely-regarded as America’s foremost living playwright, most notably on the occasion of this milestone birthday.

Additional casting for Me, Myself and I will be announced at a later date.

Ticket for Me, Myself and I at McCarter Theatre Center (91 University Place, Princeton, NJ) range from $43 to $49. To order tickets by phone, call the McCarter Box Office at (609) 258-ARTS (2787); toll-free 1-888-278-7932; or on-line at www.mccarter.org.

McCARTER THEATRE CENTER
Under the leadership of artistic director Emily Mann and managing director Jeffrey Woodward, McCarter Theatre Center, home to the Matthews and Berlind Theatres, is recognized as one of the nation's premier theatre companies and performing arts centers. Renowned for major contributions to the theatrical canon, McCarter premieres have included Emily Mann's Mrs. Packard (Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays), Beth Henley’s Ridiculous Fraud, Christopher Durang’s Miss Witherspoon (Pulitzer Prize finalist), Steven Dietz’ Last of the Boys, Regina Taylor's Crowns, Dael Orlandersmith's Yellowman (2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Emily Mann's Having Our Say (3 Tony nominations), Athol Fugard's Valley Song, and Stephen Wadsworth's Marivaux trilogy. McCarter commissioned and will premiere Edward Albee's Me, Myself & I in January 2008. McCarter has also produced major new productions of Brian Friel's Translations (Tony nomination), directed by Garry Hynes; Nilo Cruz’ Anna in the Tropics (2003 Pulitzer Prize winner , 2 Tony nominations), August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson; Edward Albee's All Over (2 Obie Awards), directed by Emily Mann; and Electra (3 Tony nominations), directed David Leveaux. McCarter is supported by Princeton University, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and over 3,000 individuals, corporations and foundations.