On Golden Pond

On Golden Pond is a play by Ernest Thompson which originally ran on Broadway from 1979-1980, focusing on an older couple whose summer at their lakeside home is complicated by the arrival of their daughter with a fiancé and his son in tow. The playwright adapted his own material for the 1981 film version, which won three Academy Awards. The play itself was revived on Broadway in 2005.
==References==
*In Sesame Street Episode 2568, Gladys the Cow is directing her friend Lucky the duck's new play In Golden Pond (about a duck who lives in the pond). When auditions fail to satisfy Gladys, she decides to play the duck herself, although the feathered playwright isn't pleased with her line readings.
==Connections==
*Julie Andrews played Ethel Thayer in a 2001 TV movie
*Dabney Coleman played Bill Ray in the film
*Henry Fonda played Norman Thayer, Jr. in the film
*Jane Fonda played Chelsea Thayer Wayne in the film
*James Earl Jones played Norman Thayer, Jr. in the 2005 Broadway revival
*Frances Sternhagen originated Ethel Thayer on Broadway
*Leslie Uggams played Ethel Thayer in the 2005 Broadway revival
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