(Love’s Labour’s Lost, “Saturday Night Live�), Glenn Fitzgerald (Hamlet, "The Sixth Sense") and Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee (, “Two and a Half Men�) will join Drama Desk Award winner in the production, which will be directed by Tony winner .
Taylor replaces the previously announced , who withdrew from the production due to the extension of her book tour for her new memoir, "My First Hundred Years in Show Business."
Lindsay-Abaire, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of , Fuddy Meers and , returns to MTC with Ripcord, a high-stakes comedy described as such: "A sunny room on an upper floor is prime real estate in the Bristol Place Assisted Living Facility so when the cantankerous Abby (Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Holland Taylor) is forced to share her quarters with new-arrival Marilyn (frequent Lindsay-Abaire collaborator and Drama Desk Award winner Marylouise Burke), she has no choice but to get rid of the infuriatingly chipper woman by any means necessary. A seemingly harmless bet between the old women quickly escalates into a dangerous game of one-upmanship that reveals not just the tenacity of these worthy opponents, but also deeper truths that each would rather remain hidden."
The creative team includes (scenic design), (lighting design), Jennifer von Mayrhauser (costume design), (original music and sound design) and (fight director).
Additional casting will be announced shortly.
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