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Jennifer Garner has nose for Broadway


(E! Online)
Updated: 2007-08-21 11:29



Los Angeles - Do we smell a Tony nomination?





Jennifer Garner continues her emergence from maternity leave, sniffing
out a starring role in the Broadway revival of the proboscis-powered
romantic classic Cyrano de Bergerac.





She'll play as Roxanne to Kevin Kline's schnoz-enhanced hero in the
limited-engagement production, which kicks off Nov. 1 at the Richards
Rodgers Theatre. The show will run through Dec. 23.

Daniel Sunjata will play Roxanne's other suitor, the handsome if inept
Christian.

The new production of Edmond Rostand's 1897 magnum opus features a
translation and adaptation by Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange).

This will be Garner's Broadway debut. The 35-year-old former Alias star
took nearly a year off from acting following the birth of her and
Affleck's daughter, Violet, in December 2005.

She most recently appeared onscreen in the January bomb Catch and
Release, which was actually shot before Violet's birth. Garner has two
other films set to unspool this year.

First up is the terrorism thriller The Kingdom, also starring Jamie Foxx,
Chris Cooper, Jeremy Piven and Jason Bateman and due out Sept. 28.

Garner also appears in the dramedy Juno with Bateman, Michael Cera,
Allison Janney, Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page. The film is set for limited
release in December.

Garner no doubt hopes her premiere performance on the Great White Way is
better received than Julia Roberts'. The Pretty Woman took to the boards
in Three Days of Rain during her own comeback from baby-tending duties
but failed to endear herself to theater critics.

Of course Kline has made a career of endearing himself to critics. The
actor, who has two Tonys to go along with his Oscar, will be Broadway's
first Cyrano in more than 20 years.

Derek Jacobi last played the role in a 1984 Royal Shakespeare Company
production. Jos茅 Ferrer, arguably the most famous modern Cyrano, starred
in a 1946 revival and won an Oscar for the 1950 film version. And Steve
Martin memorably parodied the play in his hit 1987 big-screen comedy
Roxanne with Daryl Hannah.








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