Rainmaker, The
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 11, 1999
Closed Jan 23, 2000
Opened Nov 11, 1999
Closed Jan 23, 2000
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Film star, Woody Harrelson will make his Broadway debut in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of N. Richard Nash's THE RAINMAKER. Set on the Curry family's drought stricken farm, "plain" Lizzie longs for love, enter Starbuck a handsome stranger who claims he can bring rain. Scott Ellis will direct the production and acclaimed Broadway actress, Jayne Atkinson will play Lizzie.
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The revival of N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker is billed as a comedy. But it might better be called "The Woody Harrelson Show".
As Bill Starbuck, Harrelson plays a consummate braggart conman who starts out promising to bring rain to a drought-ridden Western town in the 1930s. As the play progresses, Starbuck unleashes a wellspring of hope into the love-starved life of Lizzie Curry, the plain Jane (or Jayne, as in Atkinson) of this theatrical fable.
In the process, Harrelson -- who to many television fans will forever be Woody Boyd, the sweet but slow-witted bartender in Cheers -- establishes himself as an absolutely first-rate stage actor and breathes new life into the drama-s[...]