Overview
- The Sept. 9 New York premiere gathered Ted Lange, Fred Grandy, Jill Whelan and fellow series veteran Bernie Kopell.
- Written and directed by Lange, the play explores espionage inside Jefferson Davis’s household through Mary Bowser, Varina Davis and Elizabeth Van Lew.
- Grandy and Whelan lead the production, with Whelan portraying Elizabeth Van Lew and Grandy playing a war reporter.
- The limited engagement is running at Theatre Row through Sept. 20, with tickets currently available.
- Whelan said she wears earrings gifted by Gavin MacLeod as an onstage homage, while Lange, Grandy and Whelan are recording a Love Boat podcast ahead of a Princess Cruises reunion in November.