Article: `Redwood' Roots // Pianist Finds Lost Chord in Eloquent Drama

REDWOOD CURTAIN (STAR) (STAR) (STAR) WLS-Channel 7, 8 to 10 p.m. Sunday. ABC will raise television's collective IQ by at least 50 points for two hours Sunday with the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation of "Redwood Curtain."

Based on the Broadway play by Lanford Wilson, the high-minded family drama stars Jeff Daniels (atoning for "Dumb and Dumber"), Lea Salonga from "Miss Saigon," John Lithgow and Tony winner Debra Monk. Daniels and Monk performed in the New York stage production.

The interlocking themes of "Redwood Curtain" are "loss and preservation," Wilson says. Writer Ed Namzug adapted the play for television, adding several scenes and one major character.

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