Willows Theatre Concord (Concord, CA)
The Willows Theatre Company presents Dore Schary's Tony award-winning drama Sunrise at Campobello. While in the prime of his life, Franklin Roosevelt is stricken with a debilitating illness that threatens to end his career. Fortunately, his wife, Eleanor, and children faithfully help him regain his strength and become one of America's most influential and beloved Commanders-in-Chief.
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found the play a bit slow moving
Sunrise at Campobello opened on Broadway in 1958 starring Ralph Bellamy as FDR. The production also marked the Broadway debut of a young James Earl Jones. The film version, released by Warner Brothers in 1960, starred Bellamy and Greer Garson, whose portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt earned her an Academy Award nomination.
Campobello Island was the Roosevelt family’s summer home in New Brunswick, Canada. Most of the play’s action is set there, where we see Roosevelt struggle to overcome the sudden and debilitating onset of total paralysis in his legs and the effect of his disability on his close family. The play ends with his famous speech at the 1924 Democratic National Convention at New York’s Madison Square Garden, which catapulted him back into politics after an absence of several years.
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