![]() And they receive stellar support from David Nevell as Learned’s concerned son.ĭirector Michael Bloom has established a heartwarming, compelling atmosphere representing a time when public attitudes around Atlanta, where the play is set, were less than cordial. Nichols, heralded in HBO’s “Treme,” certainly have done so with their bravura performances. Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman, who brought these characters to the screen, comprise a tough act to follow, but Michael Learned - who won three Emmys in the 1970s for her work in “The Waltons” - and Lance E. Sounds like the original odd couple, but playwright Alfred Uhry turned this scenario into the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Driving Miss Daisy,” currently on view at the Laguna Playhouse. A rich, Jewish widow and an illiterate black chauffeur, both in their 70s, in the Jim Crow South of the 1940s. ![]()
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