re: Featured Actress (Play): Ehle & Plimpton Jun 8
2007, 01:37:57 AM
Probably, but why?
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Featured Actress (Play): Ehle & Plimpton Jun 8
2007, 01:29:17 AM
Featured Actress seems a very close race- the word on the street seems to favour the Coast of Utopia ladies, with Martha Plimpton with a slight edge over Jennifer Ehle. The recent BWW Fans' Choice Awards confirms this. I was wondering, what's the rationale? I saw Voyage and Shipwreck but missed Salvage, so didn't get to see MP in a prominent role. Also I'm hardly unbiased- see signature link! Are people's picks only based on performance, or is it the "she's got one already" factor?
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Will the Tonys be webcast? May 17
2007, 10:44:09 AM
The site says the red carpet and pre-telecast will be shown on TonyAwards.com, but will the whole ceremony be webcast anywhere?
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Coast of Utopia cast video interview Apr 25
2007, 10:42:58 PM
This is one of ATW's Working in the Theatre seminars, featuring Jennifer Ehle, Ethan Hawke, Amy Irving and Josh Hamilton. Voila: http://www.americantheatrewing.org/seminars/detail/coast_of_utopia_03_07
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Tom Stoppard on Coast of Utopia - Q&A transcript Apr 15
2007, 02:30:40 PM
Voila: http://www.lct.org/calendar/platform_detail.cfm?id_event=68639707
This is from the Feb 14th Platform Series event with Sir Tom. He answers everyone's burning question about the Ginger Cat (amongst other interesting topics):
"Q: Could you speak about the mysterious Ginger Cat from Voyage? (Laughter).
TS: In the play, Herzen invokes a six-foot cat he saw at a fancy dress ball, and he invokes this cat in a speech in which he’s trying to make a point. And the point he’s making is a counter-argument to a world view which everybody in Europe was in love with at that moment. It’s a view made famous by the German philosopher Hegel. Essentially the idea was that we are all bound up in a narrative, which is being determined by forces outside us and much larger than us. That the history of nations is, as it were, the narrative of history, and that history is the author of this narrative. So, in other words, it’s about pre-determinism, large scale pre-determinism. And, Herzen reaches for this Ginger Cat in order to say that as collectives of people we may be subject to some such universal law of history. But actually, that’s not terribly relevant to us as individuals. Because as individuals, while this great rolling wheel of Hegelian narrative is slowly taking us towards an unknown destination, a yellow cab can come around the corner and just knock us over, or some other random event...
AC: And “What happens next is not up to the Cat, it’s up to you.” A line from Voyage. (Laughter).
TS: Herzen feels that there is lying in wait for all of us a nemesis which is completely arbitrary in so far as it has no motive or purpose. It’s just terrifyingly, casually arbitrary. It will just come and get you at any moment. It could be anything. It could lay you low, or move you to another country. And, he’s simply saying ... you just quoted it accurately, haven’t you?
AC: I have indeed. (Laughter).
TS: It’s like being subject to a cat’s paw belonging to an enormous Ginger Cat. (Laughter)."
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re: Coast of Utopia on Live From Lincoln Center? Apr 15
2007, 02:12:19 PM
Well, if anyone has a mind to attempt People Power, the associate producer I emailed at the LCT was csametATlincolncenter.org .
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re: Coast of Utopia on Live From Lincoln Center? Apr 15
2007, 12:56:46 PM
I emailed the Live from Lincoln Centre people last August about broadcasting Utopia and the response was a pretty categorical "no". Alas! However, the trilogy will be recorded for NYPL's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
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Radio interview with Coast of Utopia cast Mar 20
2007, 01:11:47 AM
Here: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2007/03/16#segment75514
It's a 25 minute segment of Leonard Lopate interviewing Billy Crudup, Jennifer Ehle and Brian F. O'Byrne.
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re: SALVAGE reviews Feb 19
2007, 05:11:21 AM
Thanks for the roundup. One more from the Toronto Star, about the entire trilogy.
http://www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/183165
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re: Coast of Utopia: Voyage videos Feb 12
2007, 11:46:56 PM
We finally got organised and categorised our posts. Here are the roundups.
Coast of Utopia in general: http://jenniferehle.blogspot.com/search/label/Coast%20of%20Utopia
Voyage: http://jenniferehle.blogspot.com/search/label/Voyage
Shipwreck: http://jenniferehle.blogspot.com/search/label/Shipwreck
Salvage: http://jenniferehle.blogspot.com/search/label/Salvage
There's much overlapping under the latter 3 labels.
Note that there's the Q&A with Tom Stoppard at the LCT on Wednesday Feb 14. Details here: http://lct.org/coast/event_detail_explore.cfm?section=reviews#1
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Everything Coast of Utopia Nov 29
2006, 09:42:12 AM
Got a round up of Coast of Utopia: Voyage videos, photos and reviews at the Jennifer Ehle blog here: http://jenniferehle.blogspot.com/
Probably the Broadway.com video has the best clips from the show and quotage from the cast: http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=541078
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re: The Coast of Utopia: Voyage Reviews Nov 27
2006, 07:38:59 PM
Thanks Margo! So the opening performance's done already? I thought it started at 6pm today.
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re: Coast of Utopia photos Nov 24
2006, 07:58:18 AM
NYT article on Coast of Utopia pre-reading with a multimedia slideshow - director Jack O'Brien narrates over photos of the production.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/24/theater/24coas.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1
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re: Coast of Utopia Nov 22
2006, 01:27:56 AM
Check out our archives at the Jennifer Ehle fanblog http://jenniferehle.blogspot.com - we've got a gazillion reviews and stuff about Utopia. Some people have said that they were fine going to see the show without any background knowledge. The LCT review http://www.lctreview.org/article.cfm?id_issue=36549392 and the dramaturg's notes http://lct.org/coast/event_detail_explore.cfm?section=notes might be enough.
Btw just read on All That Chat that the Nov 27th performance of Voyage is on TDF.
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Coast of Utopia photos Nov 19
2006, 07:24:38 PM
Just a handful and mostly of Jennifer Ehle, cos that's all we got. Link below.
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re: thoughts on UTOPIA: VOYAGE Oct 30
2006, 04:12:20 AM
Any more reviews? The blog buzz is rather scanty.
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Updates on Coast of Utopia site Oct 24
2006, 01:46:30 PM
The LCT review now has all the articles up. Interesting reading.
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Updates on Coast of Utopia site Oct 21
2006, 03:26:41 AM
Thanks for the reports. One question for people posting reviews - how do you feel about being quoted at the blog below?
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Updates on Coast of Utopia site Oct 20
2006, 11:52:52 AM
You read my mind! :) Was thinking of setting up a free forum thingy for CoU discussion. Other options- email mailing list, Yahoo group, thread here, LJ/Myspace communities (a LJ one already exists)...opinions?
*Edit: just struck me that you might've meant a face-to-face group.
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Updates on Coast of Utopia site Oct 20
2006, 05:13:29 AM
De nada. Looky, LCT blog update from the first preview: http://lct.org/coast/event_detail_explore.cfm?section=blog
Also did a roundup of semi-relevant links (lots of Wikipedia biographies and such) at the blog a while ago: http://jenniferehle.blogspot.com/2006/09/feed-your-inner-nerd.html
Thanks for listing those books NYadgal- just borrowed the Figes one today.
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