Broadcast of a live performance of the Roundabout Theater Company's 2000 New York revival of the classic Kaufman-Hart comedy, about a famous (and famously acid-tongued) theater critic who is forced to stay in a Midwestern couple's home and the havoc that ensues.
Nathan Lane
as Sheridan Whiteside
Jean Smart
as Lorraine Sheldon
Harriet Sansom Harris
as Maggie Cutler
Terry Beaver
as Mr. Stanley
Stephen DeRosa
as Professor Metz
William Duell
as Dr. Bradley
Byron Jennings
as Beverly Carlton
Lewis J. Stadlen
as Banjo
Linda Stephens
as Mrs. Ernest W. Stanley
Hank Stratton
as Bert Jefferson
Mary Catherine Garrison
as June Stanley
Mary Catherine Wright
as Miss Preen