Driving Miss Daisy has officially opened on Broadway, and Driving Miss Daisy tickets are predictably selling strongly. In a year that has seen African-Americans celebrated, savaged and examined on the Broadway stage, this quirky but powerful production makes a late run for the finish line. Driving Miss Daisy is a pleasant but complex story of a forbidden friendship in a blinkered world. The Driving Miss Daisy schedule is probably already spoken-for, tickets-wise, but you should check the dates and secure those Driving Miss Daisy tickets now if you are serious about catching this epic live in the flesh. The play is a hard-hitting meditation with lashings of tenderness, still ahead of its time today when it comes to mixing emotions and styles. Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones provide the heavyweight oomph as the elderly Jewish woman and her black chauffeur. The initial caustic resonance between the two can literally be seen to transform as the two shed skins, fears and barriers.
The production opened on October 25 and the complete Driving Miss Daisy schedule is set to run until January 29, 2011. The creative team behind the play is a solid assembly of proven players, such as Mark Bennett, responsible for the music, and costume designer Jane Greenwood, originally from Liverpool, England. Driving Miss Daisy tells the story of Daisy Werthan, a widowed Jewish woman living in Atlanta, Georgia in 1948. When Daisy becomes too old to drive (according to her son) a chauffeur is hired to run her around. Daisy’s son finds a black man named Hoke Colburn to drive his mother, but she is adamant she doesn’t want a chauffeur. From teaching Hoke to read, to realizing how others judge him for his skin color, to learning the hidden fears and small hopes that lie inside her fellow human being, Miss Daisy gradually becomes very attached to Hoke and he to her. The two cultivate a friendship that conquers all of society’s ignorance and injustice and which endures for decades. Driving Miss Daisy tickets will show you all this and a lot more besides.
Now the play has officially begun its run at the John Golden Theatre, the tickets rush will increase if anything. Make sure you’re an early bird, and you’ll see this story unfold.