The Trip to Bountiful
Tickets and Information
SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 4, 2005
Closed Mar 11, 2006
Opened Dec 4, 2005
Closed Mar 11, 2006
Directions & Map
Running Time:
1hr. 45min.
1hr. 45min.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Carrie Watts (Lois Smith) longs to return to her childhood home of Bountiful, Texas. Despite her failing health, she grows more determined to escape from the tiny Houston apartment she shares with her son and watchful daughter-in-law. Finally she gets her chance to head homeward, and it is the journey of a lifetime.
Box Office Hours: Tues-Sat 1pm to 7pm and Sunday 1pm to 6pm
Group Sales Number (8+): 212-244-7529
Appropriate for ages 12 and up.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Signature Center
480 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
Designed by Frank Gehry for the Signature Theatre, Signature Center features three intimate theatres connected by a lobby with café, bar and bookstore, a studio theatre, a rehearsal studio and the Company's administrative offices.
480 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
Designed by Frank Gehry for the Signature Theatre, Signature Center features three intimate theatres connected by a lobby with café, bar and bookstore, a studio theatre, a rehearsal studio and the Company's administrative offices.
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Some people consider Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful to be sentimental and/or maudlin. Well, I won't have it, do you hear? Yes, there's a line of dialogue in the work -- which first aired in 1953 on the Goodyear Television Playhouse -- that explains such a reaction. Mrs. Carrie Watts, the aging woman who finally makes a journey to the home where she grew up, says: "Maybe the need to belong to a house and a family and a town has gone from the rest of the world."
She is noticing that sensibilities and mentalities change, sometimes not for the better. This shouldn't come as news in a world where disconnect is common. It's possible that things have changed too much for some theatergoers to[...]