“GREAT PERFORMANCES: DRIVING MISS DAISY” will be available on DVD September 29, 2015. The run time of this program is approximately 90 minutes and the DVD SRP is $24.99.
Directed for the stage by David Esbjornson, Uhry’s classic play is a timeless, searing, funny, and ultimately hopeful meditation on race relations in America, told through the complex relationship between two of popular culture’s most enduring characters. When Daisy Werthan, a widowed, 72-year-old Jewish woman living in midcentury Atlanta, is deemed too old to drive, her son hires Hoke Colburn, an African American man, to serve as her chauffeur. What begins as a troubled and hostile pairing, soon blossoms into a profound, life-altering friendship that transcends all the societal boundaries placed between them.
Since it premiered off Broadway in 1987, this iconic tale of pride, changing times and the transformative power of friendship has warmed the hearts of millions worldwide, and “DRIVING MISS DAISY” has become one of the most beloved American stories of the late twentieth century.
This production of “DRIVING MISS DAISY” was also released theatrically in select movie theaters throughout the USA, Canada, Australia and the UK over the last year.
Lansbury has won Tony Awards for her roles in “Blithe Spirit,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Gypsy,” “Dear World” and “Mame” and received nominations for “A Little Night Music” and “Deuce.” Other Broadway credits include “Hotel Paradiso,” “The King and I” and “A Taste of Honey,” and she is well known to TV audiences as the star of long-running series “Murder, She Wrote.” Her numerous films include “Gaslight,” “Till the Clouds Roll By,” “Blue Hawaii,” “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Bedknobs and Broomsticks,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Death on the Nile,” and “The Mirror Crack’d.”
Multi-award winning Jones has won Tony Awards for the Broadway productions of “The Great White Hope” and “Fences” and a Tony Award nomination for the revival of “On Golden Pond.” His film credits include “The Great White Hope” (Oscar nomination), “Dr. Strangelove,” “The Hunt for Red October,” “A Clear and Present Danger” and “Field of Dreams.” On television his credits include “Gabriel’s Fire” and “Heat Wave,” receiving Emmy Awards for both. He is well known for his voiceover work including Darth Vader in the “Star Wars” films and the voice of Mufasa in Disney’s “The Lion King.”
Uhry is distinguished as the only American playwright to have won a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award and two Tony Awards. His first play, “Driving Miss Daisy,” opened Off Broadway in 1987 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. Other works include: “The Light Night of Ballyhoo” (Tony Award), “Parade” (Tony Award), “Without Walls” (starring Laurence Fishburne), “Edgardo Mine” (at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis), and the book for the Broadway musical “LoveMusik” (Drama Desk nomination).
The play was produced for the Australian stage by John Frost by special arrangement with Jed Bernstein and Adam Zotovich.
GREAT PERFORMANCES: DRIVING MISS DAISY
Street Date: September 29, 2015
Genre: Drama
Run Time: Approx. 90 Minutes
SRP: $24.99
Format: DVD
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