Staged Reading: The Kingfisher

A comedy by William Douglas Home starring Mercedes Ruehl, Brian Murray and Harris Yulin. Directed by Harris Yulin. Cecil, a seventy year-old successful novelist living comfortably with his fussy old butler is contemplating marriage. The object of his affections, Evelyn, has just buried the man she married thirty years ago after being propositioned by Cecil. She is confronted with a candid and charming proposal in this delightful comedy that starred Rex Harrison and Claudette Colbert on Broadway.