Other visitors include Weston Hurley, Gwen's guitarist, and Ken's aunt, Sally Talley, who still has her husband Matt's ashes in a candy box a year after his death.
Directed by Marshall W. Mason, the cast starred William Hurt as Kenneth Talley Jr., Jeff Daniels, Amy Wright, Danton Stone, and Jonathan Hogan, who also composed the incidental music for the production.
[2] The play made its Broadway debut at the New Apollo Theatre on November 5, 1980, directed by Mason with Daniels reprising the role of Jed, Christopher Reeve as Ken, and Swoosie Kurtz as Gwen.
The film stars Daniels, Kurtz, Hogan, Stone, Cynthia Nixon, Joyce Reehling, Helen Stenborg, and Richard Thomas as Ken, the role in which he succeeded Reeve on Broadway.
A revival, starring Robert Sean Leonard as Ken and Parker Posey as Gwen, was included in the Signature Theater Company's 2002–2003 tribute season to Wilson.