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**** BROADWAY'S BEST **** Leon Addison Brown Wth Cuba Gooding Jr. Academy Award winner CUBA GOODING JR. will give his final performance in the critically acclaimed revival of Horton Foote’s American masterpiece, THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, on Tuesday, August 27, due to a change in schedule for an upcoming film project. Gooding made his Broadway debut in the acclaimed revival and can currently be seen nationwide in the hit film, Lee Daniels’ The Butler.  Meanwhile, thursday night Cuba got his caricature at The World Famed Sardi’s, a Broadway tradition. Cast member LEON ADDISON BROWN will assume the role of “Ludie” and take the stage alongside Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award Winner CICELY TYSON, Emmy Award nominee and recording star VANESSA WILLIAMS, Tony Award nominee TOM WOPAT, and rising star ADEPERO ODUYE. The production, which has been extended twice due to popular demand, will play through October 9. LEON ADDISON B...

**** BROADWAY'S BEST **** Adepero Oduye ADEPERO ODUYE will assume the role of Thelma in the critically acclaimed revival of Horton Foote’s American masterpiece, THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL , on today July 16th. Oduye is best known for her acclaimed breakout role in Dee Ree’s Sundance film, Pariah, and for her performance opposite Queen Latifah, Alfre Woodard and Phylicia Rashad in the Lifetime Television movie, Steel Magnolias. Condola Rashad, who also co-starred with Oduye in Steel Magnolias, played her final performance as Thelma on Sunday, July 14. Making her Broadway debut, ADEPERO ODUYE has appeared onstage in Eclipsed at Yale Repertory Theatre and The Bluest Eye at Hartford Stage and Long Wharf Theatre. Oduye can be seen in the upcoming film, Twelve Years a Slave, directed by Steven McQueen, opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor and Brad Pitt. Oduye is a Cornell University graduate. ADEPERO ODUYE joins the star-studded revival starring CICELY TYSON in a...

**** BROADWAY'S BEST **** Vanessa Williams And Cuba Gooding Jr. Cicely Tyson And Condola Rashad The critically acclaimed revival of Horton Foote’s American masterpiece, THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, has been extended again, adding five weeks to its already extended engagement, and will now play through Wednesday, October 9, giving audiences just a few more chances to see the legendary CICELY TYSON’s in her Tony Award-winning performance of a lifetime. CICELY TYSON, who has been praised with an Academy Award nomination for Sounder and won two Emmy Awards for her iconic portrayal in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, has returned to Broadway for the first time in over 30 years in THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL. Taking the stage by storm, CICELY TYSON has received every major theatre award of the season for her performance as Mother Carrie Watts, a role that rivals any iconic character she has ever performed. MISS TYSON’s Tony Award, Drama Desk Award,...