Angela Lansbury Has a Deuce of a Time on Broadway

If you only know Angela Lansbury as the buttinsky sleuth on Murder, She Wrote, then it might be news to you that she's a four-time Tony winner for her appearances in legendary musicals like Mame and Sweeney Todd.

The lady returns to the Great White Way next spring in the latest show from gay playwright Terrence McNally (Love! Valour! Compassion!), a nonmusical called Deuce.

The play stars Lansbury and fellow Tony winner Marian Seldes as retired women's tennis pros. (Which means a lesbian subplot is a possibility, if not an inevitability.)

These grande dames will sink their teeth into McNally's juicy prose when the show enters previews in April 2007, with an official opening May 6, under the direction of Broadway vet Michael Blakemore (Copenhagen).