On Golden Pond
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 2, 2004
Closed Oct 17, 2004
Opened Oct 2, 2004
Closed Oct 17, 2004
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Jeffrey Finn Productions presents two-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award nominee James Earl Jones and Tony Award winner Leslie Uggams in a new production of Ernest Thompson's beloved play On Golden Pond. Leonard Foglia directs.
Retired New England professor Norman Thayer and his spirited wife Ethel decide to spend one final summer at their family's lakeside cottage in Maine. En route to a European honeymoon, the couple's estranged daughter Chelsea arrives to leave behind her fiancé's troubled teenage son. Colliding generations soon forge common ground, but when Chelsea returns to discover Norman playing the father she never had, years of bitter memories and resentment rise to the surface. An intimate family drama laced with humor and heart, On Golden Pond explores growing up, growing old and growing closer.
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Ernest Thompson's On Golden Pond is a very simple play, which is not to say that it's easy to perform well. The story of an aging couple making what may be their final visit to the summer cottage that they've cherished for over four decades, the play has bittersweet depths that can be reached not through its dialogue but through something much more ephemeral: the chemistry between the two leading players. The long, shared history of the characters they play must permeate the walls of the rustic retreat and fill in the cracks in Thompson's hop-scotching script. That chemistry was in short supply on opening night of the Kennedy Center's presentation of the Jeffrey Finn revival starring James [...]