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Enchanted April (2003 play)

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First performance
  
2000

Adapted from
  
The Enchanted April

Playwright
  
Matthew Barber

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Enchanted April is a 2003 stage play by Matthew Barber, adapted from Elizabeth von Arnim's 1922 novel The Enchanted April. The play opened on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre on April 29, 2003, in a production directed by Michael Wilson.

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Plot

Feeling lost in the shadows of marriage and post-World War I society, two unhappy London housewives rent a villa in Italy for a ladies-only holiday away, reluctantly recruiting a pair of difficult upper-class women to share the cost and the experience. Together under the Mediterranean sun, the four women clash — and then begin to bond and bloom — until men once again upset the balance.

Original Broadway cast

  • Jayne Atkinson as Lotty Wilton
  • Molly Ringwald as Rose Arnott
  • Dagmara Dominczyk as Caroline Bramble
  • Elizabeth Ashley as Mrs. Graves
  • Michael Cumpsty as Mellersh Wilton
  • Daniel Gerroll as Frederick Arnott
  • Michael Hayden as Antony Wilding
  • Patricia Conolly as Costanza
  • Recognition

  • Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New American Play
  • Tony Award for Best Play nomination
  • Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (Jayne Atkinson) nomination
  • Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Play nomination
  • References

    Enchanted April (2003 play) Wikipedia