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Julia Does Broadway
Looks like maternity leave is officially over for Julia Roberts.
The Pretty Woman has signed on to make her Broadway debut next spring in a revival of Richard Greenberg's popular family drama, Three Days of Rain, the New York Times reports.
Save a voice role as the titular spider in Paramount's upcoming live-action/CGI feature adaptation of Charlotte's Web, the 37-year-old thesp hasn't been doing her day job since last year's Ocean's Twelve and Closer. Instead, she's been busy playing mom to fraternal twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, born in November.
Before getting back in front of the cameras, Roberts opted for her first post-partum project to be a play, fulfilling a long-standing desire to appear along the Great White Way.
"By the time I get there, I'll be entirely apoplectic," she told the Times in a phone interview from her Los Angeles home. "But the terror is part of the excitement."
Three Days of Rain will premiere in March for a limited 12-week run. The show is being produced by Marc Platt and David Stone, the duo behind the Tony-winning hit musical Wicked, and directed by Joe Mantello, whose Broadway credits include Wicked, Glengarry Glen Ross, Greenberg's critically acclaimed Take Me Out and the upcoming Matthew Broderick-Nathan Lane revival of The Odd Couple, opening in October.
Originally staged off-Broadway in 1997 with a cast that included Patricia Clarkson, John Slattery and Bradley Whitford, Three Days of Rain is a mystery that revolves around siblings who uncover an unspeakable secret regarding their parents' relationship after their father's death.
Roberts, according to the Times, was drawn to the play's intergenerational conflict and its narrative structure, in which the three actors play the children in the first act and then assume dual roles as the parents in the second.
"I love its complications," said Roberts. "I love the opportunity to get to play someone in contemporary times and then play the mother 30 years earlier."
Roberts, who won an Oscar in 2001 for Erin Brockovich, signed on to the production after a reading with Mantello in June, who was in Los Angeles supervising the touring production of Wicked.
"I knew that she could do it, but I wanted her to feel confident that it was the right play for her," Mantello told the Times. "I love this play, and I think she'll be magnificent in it."
Roberts isn't the only movie star to pop up on Broadway. Other big names to grace the boards in recent years include her Pelican Brief costar Denzel Washington (a modern-day telling of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar), Jessica Lange (The Glass Menagerie), Kathleen Turner (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate), Liam Neeson (The Crucible) and Hugh Jackman (The Boy From Oz).
Tickets for Three Days of Rain go on sale in November. Rehearsals are slated to begin in February.
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