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Driving Miss Daisy

By: Alfred Uhry
Narrated by: Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones, Boyd Gaines
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Two giants of the theater, five-time Tony Award® winner Angela Lansbury and three-time Tony Award winner James Earl Jones, star in 1988’s Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama.

Driving Miss Daisy is Alfred Uhry’s tale that follows the complicated friendship between a feisty Jewish widow and her Black chauffeur in mid-century Atlanta over the course of 20 years.

©2020 Alfred Uhry (P)2020 AO Media LLC
Drama & Plays Fiction Friendship Historical Fiction United States Heartfelt Feel-Good Funny
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About the Creator

Alfred Uhry is distinguished as the first American playwright to have won a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award and two Tony Awards. A 1958 graduate of Brown University, he began his professional career as a lyric writer under contract to the late Frank Loesser. He made his Broadway debut in 1968 with Here's Where I Belong, which ran for one night. He had better luck with The Robber Bridgeroom in 1976, which won him his first Tony nomination and will be revived at the Roundabout Theatre in New York early next year. He followed that with five rec-created musicals at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut. His first play was Driving Miss Daisy, which began life at the 74 seat upstairs theater at Playwrights Horizons in 1987 and went on to run for three years and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. The film version, starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy, won the Academy Award as best film of 1989 and gained Uhry his own Oscar for best screenplay. His next two Broadway outings won him Tony Awards— The Last Night of Ballyhoo, best play of 1997. And PARADE, best book of a musical in 1999. Two more plays, Without Walls and Edgardo Mine have been performed at major regional theaters in the last few years. His book for the musical Lovemusik, directed by Harold Prince, won him a Drama Desk nomination in 2007. Angel Reapers an award winning theater/dance work about the Shakers, which he created with Martha Clarke, was presented at the Signature Theatre in New York in 2016. He is presently at work on two musical theater pieces.

About the Performer

Jones voice is known by people of all ages and walks of life, from Star Wars fans who know him as the voice of Darth Vader to children who know him as Mufasa from Disney’s The Lion King. Born in Mississippi and raised in Michigan, James Earl Jones moved to New York City after graduating from the University of Michigan and serving in the military. Renowned Broadway producer, Joseph Papp gave Jones one of his first major breakthroughs, casting him as Michael Williams in Shakespeare’s Henry V, eventually counting the title roles of Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear among his many distinguished performances for the company. Based on his success in the theater, he began to be cast in small television playing a doctor in both The Guiding Light and As the World Turns, and he made his film debut in 1964 in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. In 1969, Jones won a Tony Award for his breakthrough role as boxer Jack Johnson in the Broadway hit, The Great White Hope (which also garnered him an Oscar nomination for the 1970 film adaptation). He won a second Tony Award in 1987 for August Wilson's Fences.
In addition to the many awards he has received as an actor--two Tonys, three Emmys, a Golden Globe, two Cable ACEs, two OBIEs, five Drama Desks, and a Grammy—Jones has been honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1992 and the John F. Kennedy Center Honor in December 2002. He also was honored by the Screen Actors Guild with the Lifetime Achievement Award in January of 2009. In the spring of 2005, James Earl Jones starred on Broadway a critically acclaimed revival of On Golden Pond for which he was nominated for a Tony Award and in spring of 2008 portrayed Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Broadway followed by a second run of Cat on Hot Tin Roof on stage in London. In 2011, Mr. Jones starred in the Broadway and London productions of Driving Miss Daisy with Vanessa Redgrave and Boyd Gaines and in 2012, starred in the Broadway production of The Best Man, for which he received a Tony nomination. In 2013 Mr. Jones enjoyed a six-month tour of Driving Miss Daisy in Australia starring Angela Lansbury and Boyd Gaines. He also starred in You Can’t Take It With You and The Gin Game—both on Broadway as well. In November 2011, The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Mr. Jones with an Honorary Oscar in recognition of his long and distinguished career.

About the Performer

Angela Lansbury has enjoyed a stage, screen and television career spanning nearly eighty years. She has appeared in nearly 70 films starting with Gaslight at the age seventeen. Other films include The Portrait of Dorian Gray, National Velvet, The Harvey Girls, Frank Capra's State of the Union, Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah, The Court Jester, The Long Hot Summer, The Manchurian Candidate, The World of Henry Orient, and Death on the Nile. She was the voice of Mrs. Potts in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Nanny McPhee, in 2018, both Mary Poppins Returns and The Grinch That Stole Christmas. She made her Broadway debut in 1957 with Bert Lahr in Hotel Paradiso. In 1960, she returned to Broadway in A Taste of Honey.
Her first musical was Anyone Can Whistle in 1964, and in 1966 she triumphed as Mame winning her first Tony. She won Tonys for Dear World (1968), Gypsy (1974) and Sweeney Todd (1979). After a 23-year hiatus, she returned to Broadway in 2007 in Terrence McNally’s Deuce, and in 2009 she won her fifth Tony as Madame Arcati in Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit. She also appeared as Madame Armfeldt in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music (2010) and Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (2012). In 2013, she toured Australia in Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy, with James Earl Jones. In March 2014 she again played Madame Arcati at London’s Gielgud Theatre winning an Olivier Award. Previous London appearances included the RSC production of *All Overb; Gypsy at the Piccadilly Theatre; and Hamlet co-starring Albert Finney at the National Theatre. From 1984-1996, she starred as Jessica Fletcher in the hit series Murder, She Wrote. She is recipient of the National Medal of the Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors. She is the winner of 5 Tony Awards, an Olivier and 6 Golden Globes, and was nominated for 18 Emmys and 3 Oscars. She is recipient of an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures, the Silver Mask for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and in April 2014, she was named a Dame of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.

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Absolutely perfect in every way!

Wonderful performance! I will definitely listen to this one again! 10 out of 10. Highly recommended.

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Beautiful

Wonderful narration by perfect actors. They really bring the story to life so much to the extent I chuckled out loud several times.

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Driving Miss Daisy

Loved it. Love Angela Landsbury and James Earl Jones. A must read for every one

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Beautifully done

I LOVED this book,and the reader is excellent! Such a sweet story..Thanks! Well worth the time!

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Love this

I first watched the movie with my grandpa when I was a child, it was always a favorite. It now reminds me of my relationship with my, now deceased, mother in law. The book and movie are both amazing!!!!

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Superb!

Absolutely lovely. Tear jerker in some spots — which makes it that much better. Legendary performers. I’m so glad to have this recording forever. :)

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Best Audio Narration..Ever!

What a phenomenal cast to portray a beautiful friendship formed between two individuals from such very different worlds. I laughed, I cried, I wished the story would never end!

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perfection. delightful. enjoyed greatly. superb reading. classic. way too short. love full cast productions from Audible

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Made me cry

James Earl Jones enough said honestly as many times as I see it & hear it always gets me.

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