Danny Burstein and Victoria Clark Join Broadway\'s ‘Snow Geese\'

Left, Sara Krulwich/The New York Times; right, Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Victoria Clark and Danny Burstein

The Broadway stalwarts Danny Burstein and Victoria Clark will join Mary-Louise Parker in the coming premiere of “The Snow Geese,” setting the stage for a theater-world trade-off that involves both a fictional couple and a real-life one.

Ms. Clark, a Tony Award winner for “The Light in the Piazza,” and Mr. Burstein, a Tony nominee for “Golden Boy” and “Follies,” among other productions, will play a husband and wife in Manhattan Theater Club and MCC Theater's production of “The Snow Geese,” press representatives for the play said on Monday. “The Snow Geese,” a new play by Sharr White (“The Other Place”) and directed by Daniel Sullivan, stars Ms. Parker (“Weeds”) as a widow raising her sons in upstate New York during World War I.

Ms. Clark, who is now playing the Fairy Godmother in the Broadway production “Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella,” will take a leave from that musical to appear in “The Snow Geese.” Who will be filling in for her at “Cinderella” during that leave? Why, that would be Rebecca Luker, the “Mary Poppins” and “Music Man” star, who is Mr. Burstein's wife.

Evan Jonigkeit, Brian Cross, Christopher Innvar and Jessica Love were also announced on Monday for the cast of “The Snow Geese,” which will begin previews at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater on Oct. 1 and is scheduled for a limited run of 11 weeks.