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Article: TURNER GRADUATES TO THE LONDON STAGE.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 17, 1999
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Welcome back, Mrs. Robinson.
Kathleen Turner will make her London debut next spring in a stage production of ``The Graduate,'' the story of a young man who is seduced by a middle-aged woman and falls in love with her daughter.
The play opens at the Gielgud Theatre on April 5, starring Turner, 45, as Mrs. Robinson, the role made famous by Anne Bancroft in the 1967 movie also starring Dustin Hoffman.
The Hoffman character, Benjamin Braddock, will be played by Matthew Rhys, a relative unknown, it was announced yesterday.
A voice that once brought the hills alive with music and taught children that ``a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine ...