Cast Announced for Westport Country Playhouse Benefit Reading

Tony Award winner Joanna Gleason, Academy Award nominee Chris Sarandon, and off-Broadway/regional theater actor Brian J. Carter will join TV, film, and theater star Melissa Joan Hart in the cast for a benefit play reading at Westport Country Playhouse this month. 

The stars will read the romantic comedy "Any Wednesday" to support Westport Country Playhouse's Script in Hand series for the one-night-only event on Monday, July 29, at 7 p.m. The reading is directed by Annie Keefe, Playhouse associate artist. 

Casting is Fairfield County-based: Hart and Caret are Westport residents; Gleason and Sarandon (who have been married since 1994) hail from Fairfield. 

Tickets to the benefit play reading and post-performance "Meet the Cast" reception are $100, $50, and $25. 

"Any Wednesday" is about four people: John (Sarandon), a million businessman and philanderer who visits his paramour in the executive suite every Wednesday; Ellen (Hart), his disarmingly innocent mistress; Dorothy (Gleason), his hoodwinked wife, and Cass (Carter), a young man who is an irate victim of his devious practices. 

The romantic comedy by Muriel Resnik was a 1964 Broadway hit, according to a release from the Westport Country Playhouse. Sandy Dennis, Don Porter, Gene Hackman, and Rosemary Murphy starred in the original run. It was later made into a movie starring Jane Fonda and Jason Robards. 

The Script in Hand series is supported, in part, by the White Barn program of the Lucille Lortel Foundation. 

For more information or tickets, call the box office at (203) 227-4177, or toll free 1-888-927-7529, or visit Westport Country Playhouse, 25 Powers Court, off Route 1 in Westport. Tickets are available on the Westport Country Playhouse website.