Lifetime Greenlits A Trip to Bountiful telefilmPosted by Wilson Morales
November 5, 2013
Source: Variety
Lifetime has greenlit a telepic adaptation of the Broadway production of “A Trip to Bountiful,” starring Cicely Tyson and Vanessa Williams.
Blair Underwood and Keke Palmer will play the roles that Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Condola Rashad, who was nominated for a Tony Award, originated in the revival. Michael Wilson will make his TV directing debut with the Ostar Prods. take on Horton Foote’s enduring story of a woman’s journey through the South as the Jim Crow era fades. Ms. Tyson won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance.
The Trip to Bountiful premiered as a teleplay on NBC in 1953, starring Lillian Gish as Carrie Watts. The play had its Broadway premiere later that year with the same cast, which also included Eva Marie Saint. The play was adapted by Foote into an acclaimed 1985 film starring Geraldine Page, for which she won the Academy Award. In 2005, Signature Theatre produced the play Off-Broadway starring Lois Smith, for which she won Lortel, Obie, Outer Critics and Drama Desk Awards.
Underwood recently starred in the now-cancelled NBC series, ‘Ironside.’ In 2012, he starred in the Broadway revival of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire.’
