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Tea at Five (Unabridged)

By: Matthew Lombardo
Narrated by: Kate Mulgrew
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Summary

Joins us for a cup of tea, won't you? Katharine Hepburn beckons us into her Connecticut home for a cozy chat and an intimate look at the legend, and the woman behind the legend. Based on the critically acclaimed New York production, the independent, intelligent, feisty Hepburn comes alive once again when Kate Mulgrew, of Star Trek: Voyager fame, slips deftly into the voice and being of the famous actress.

The tale opens in 1938 when the 31-year-old Hepburn is five years beyond her first Oscar-winning successes. In the middle of a career slump after a series of movie flops, she waits by the phone to hear whether she nailed the part of Scarlett in a film called Gone With the Wind. The story moves to 1983, when Parkinson's disease has left her voice shaking, her hand clutching a cane, but her eyes still shining with intelligence, wit and the wisdom that informs a long life lived to the fullest. Tea at Five touches on Hepburn's turbulent childhood, her 15 year-old brother's suicide, and her 27-year affair with Spencer Tracy.

©2002 Matthew Lombardo (P)2003 HighBridge Company

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"Mulgrew is great as Kate!" ( New York Post)

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amazing presence

Kate mullgrew as Katherine is brilliant and so realistic. something so real she almost is Katherine Hepburn

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  • 18-02-22

Beautiful

So sad I missed this on stage, can't believe this exists. Any time in the company of Mulgrew & Hepburn is not wasted.

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  • 25-06-19

Wanted more.

Really enjoyed this but unfortunately it ended really quick and I wanted more.

Only 2 chapters.

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