Veterans Jane Fonda and Cloris Leachman return to Broadway (well, Leachman's a maybe)

Los Angeles Times - CA,USA - Jane Fonda, 70, will return to Broadway for the first time in 46 years in Tectonic Theatre Project's production of Moises Kaufman's "33 Variations."  The production, to be directed by Kaufman, also represents his Broadway debut as a playwright.

Fonda first appeared on the Broadway stage in the 1960 play "There Was a Little Girl," for which she earned a Tony nomination.  She also played Broadway in a 1963 revival of "Strange Interlude."

Kaufman's play, which tells the story of musicologist Katherine Brandt (Fonda) and her quest to discover why Ludwig von Beethoven became obsessed with a trivial waltz, was presented -- without Fonda -- at La Jolla Playhouse in April (read Charles McNulty's review).