59E59 Present the US Premiere of Terms of Endearment
Terms of Endearment by Dan Gordon
Based on the Novel by LARRY MCMURTRY and the Screenplay by JAMES L. BROOKS of the Motion Picture produced by Paramount Pictures Corporation
An Oscar-winning story comes to the American stage for the first time in a play by Dan Gordon, based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry, and the screenplay by James L. Brooks. Terms of Endearment traces the relationship between a highly opinionated mother and her feisty daughter as they seek to find humour and courage in the face of life’s challenges. This funny and touching story about love captures the delicate, and sometimes fractured, bonds between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, and lovers, both old and new.
Opening Night Oct 29, 2016
Close Dec 11, 2016
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120 Minutes with One Intermission
Cast
Molly Ringwald – Aurora
Hannah Dunne – Emma
Jeb Brown – Garrett
Denver Milford – Flap
John C Vennema – Doctor Maise
Jessica Digiovanni – Patsy/Doris/Nurse
Terms of Endearment the 1983 Movie
Terms of Endearment is a 1983 American comedy-drama film adapted from the novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry, directed, written, and produced by James L. Brooks and starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, and John Lithgow. The film covers 30 years of the relationship between Aurora Greenway (MacLaine) and her daughter Emma (Winger).
The film received eleven Academy Award nominations and won five. Brooks won the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) while MacLaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Nicholson won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In addition, it won four Golden Globes: Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actress in a Drama (MacLaine), Best Supporting Actor (Nicholson), and Best Screenplay (Brooks).
Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma are both searching for deep romantic love. Beginning with Emma’s early childhood, Aurora reveals how difficult and caring she can be by nearly climbing into Emma’s crib in order to make sure her daughter is breathing—only to be reassured when Emma starts crying (after being woken up). After the death of Aurora’s husband and Emma’s father, Rudyard, Aurora and Emma develop an extremely close love-hate mother/daughter relationship as Emma grows up.
Shirley Maclaine-Debra Winger-Jack Nicholson 1984
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Dan Gordon
Dan Gordon is an Israeli-American film and television screenwriter. He has written screenplays including Passenger 57 (1992), Wyatt Earp (1994), Murder in the First (1995), The Assignment (1997) and The Hurricane (1999).
His play, Irena’s Vow, premiered at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York, in September 2008. Starring Tovah Feldshuh, it is the true story of Irena Gut, who hid twelve Jews in a cellar during World War II. The play opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre with previews from March 10, 2009, and officially opened March 29, 2009, with the same cast from off-Broadway and ran for 105 performances. His stage adaptation of Barry Morrow’s “Rain Man” premiered at the Apollo Theatre in London’s West End in 2009 and was subsequently performed in places like Prague (Czech Republic), Stuttgart (Germany), Brussels (Belgium) and Utrecht (The Netherlands).
