James Earl Jones: Back on Broadway with 'Driving Miss Daisy'

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The voice of Darth Vader is coming back to Broadway.

But it's not for 'Star Wars: The Musical' -- just yet.

Tony Award winner James Earl Jones is confirmed to star in an upcoming Broadway production of 'Driving Miss Daisy,' this fall.

Fellow Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave is also on tap for the very first Broadway mounting of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

The limited engagement will begin performances on October 7 with an opening night of October 25th at the Golden Theatre.

David Esbjornson
('The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?') will direct, with additional casting to be announced at a later date.'Driving Miss Daisy' follows the relationship between an elderly, widowed Southern Jewish woman and her black chauffer. The play – written by Alfred Uhry -- premiered off-Broadway on April 15, 1987. It was adapted into a 1989 film which earned four Academy Awards including Best Picture.

Jones last appeared on The Great White Way in the 2008 revival of 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' Redgrave last performed on Broadway in the one-woman show 'The Year of Magical Thinking.'

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