A Round-Heeled-Woman, Starring Sharon Gless, Gets West End Transfer

A Round-Heeled-Woman, starring Emmy and Golden Globe winner Sharon Gless, will transfer to the Aldwych Theatre on London’s West End following its run at Riverside Studios. The production will resume performances on November 24, with opening night set for November 30. A Round-Heeled-Woman, based on Jane Juska's best-selling self-penned book of the same name, has been written for the stage and directed by Jane Prowse.

Best known as sharp-talking cop Christine Cagney in the long-running series Cagney & Lacey, Gless’ many other television roles include Debbie Novotny in Queer as Folk and Madeline Westen in Burn Notice. She has appeared twice before on the London stage, in the stage version of Stephen King’s Misery and in Neil Simon’s Chapter Two.

After 30 years of being “severely deprived” of touch, retired Californian English teacher and divorcee Jane Juska decided to place a personals ad in her favorite periodical, The New York Review of Books: Before I turn 67—next March—I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me.” She received 63 replies, from men aged between 32 and 84, and went on to write of her experiences in A Round-Heeled Woman – My Late-Life Adventures in Sex & Romance.

Along with Gless, the cast includes Jane Bertish, Beth Cordingly, Barry McCarthy, Neil McCaul, and Michael Thomson, all of whom will be part of the show's West End transfer.

The limited engagement of A Round-Heeled Woman will end on January 14, which overlaps by two days with the London run of Gless' Cagney and Lacey partner Tyne Daly in Master Class. Daly is set to begin performances as Maria Callas on January 12.