The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.
Simon Callow
Casts & Crew
Vanessa Redgrave
Keith Carradine
Cork Hubbert
Rod Steiger
Austin Pendleton
Beth Dixon
Lanny Flaherty
Mert Hatfield
Earl Hindman
Anne Pitoniak
Frederick Johnson
Lauri Raymond
Joe Stevens
Keith Wommack
Kevin Wommack
Laura Burns
Megan Bowman
Fred Brumfield
Mary Brumfield
Pam Christian
Jack Colby
Ted J. Crum
Candi Duke
Gayle Epperson
Mandy Fabian
Anne Greenwood-Milzman
Margaret Hoard
Trula Hoosier
Robert Jones
Kyle Kennedy
Harry Jay Knowles
Bill Kreger
Dorothy Layne
J.W. McCrary
C.K. McFarland
Misty McNeely
Bucky Meadows
Terry Mross
Nan Norvell
Eric Paul
Scott Payne
Bill Polk
Douglas Pope
Virginia Pratt
Zane Rockenbaugh
Elisabeth Ryall
Don Stroud
Kalab Tye
Mac Williams
Taylor Williams
Christopher Woods
Paul Wright
Gwen Wunneburger
Ingo Neuhaus
Gayland Williams
Also Directed by Simon Callow
This star-studded gala celebrates the centenary of the birth of legendary Broadway composer Richard Rodgers. Rodgers' contribution to musical theatre was extraordinary, including 900 published songs, 40 Broadway musicals and several film scores. Rodgers, together with lyricists Lorenz Hart and later Oscar Hammerstein II, wrote many of the best known musicals of the 20th Century, including Babes In Arms, Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music. This performance at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, directed for the stage by Simon Callow, includes songs, dance, staged numbers and anecdotes featuring leading stars from both Broadway and London's West End. The cast comprises luminaries drawn from Oklahoma!, Kiss Me Kate, Chicago, The King and I and other recent productions as well as from television. This musical extravaganza features many of Rodgers' best-loved classics.