CYRANO on Great Performances
CYRANO on Great Performances
#1CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 10/28/08 at 9:36pm
Hey All -
Just wondering if anyone had information as to WHEN PBS plans to broadcast and/or release the DVD of Kevin Kline's masterful performance in CYRANO de BERGERAC from last season? I remember rumblings of "sometime in January '09" - I haven't heard anything since. Anyone know anything?
Best,
- Mike 
#2re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 10/28/08 at 9:40pmI was wondering about this as well. I hope someone knows!
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#2re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 10/28/08 at 9:43pmMy french teacher wants to know when the DVD comes out.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#3re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 10/28/08 at 10:17pmIt's a safe bet that CYRANO will air during the PBS fund drive in December.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
JbaraFan1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/04
#5re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 11/26/08 at 3:57am
Bumping with a bit of an update.
I was scrounging about Amazon, piecing together the last of my Christmas wishlist, when all of the sudden, I stumbled upon CYRANO (w/ Kevin Kline) on DVD.
Here's the scoop!
I don't know how to get the cover image up on here...
Any help appreciated. Anyone wanna just put it up here, that's fine and dandy with me. I think it looks great!
Product Details
Actors: Kevin Kline, Jennifer Garner
Directors: David Leveaux
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Number of discs: 1
Rating: N/A
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Release Date: January 6, 2009
Run Time: 141 minutes
ASIN: B001HB1JZQ
Needless to say, yours truly is VERY, VERY much excited for this. More-so than COMPANY's release. Kline's my all-time hero, and well, I can't wait! Anyone have an inkling as to when it'll be broadcast? Is it possible to be broadcast that same evening (Tuesday, the 6th)? Thoughts?
The floor, my friends, if yours...
Updated On: 11/26/08 at 03:57 AM
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Posted: 11/26/08 at 5:47am
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#8re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 11/26/08 at 9:33amWow - an instant purchase for me!
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#9re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:22amI will definitely be getting this one!
gilvisto
Understudy Joined: 8/2/08
#10re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:31amThank you guys so much for posting! Cyrano has been my favorite play since I was "forced" to read it for English my sophomore year of high school. I was very disappointed I couldn't see it in NY, but this makes it all better!
It's not impossible...
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#11re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:40amJudging from the cover art, this is a filmed version of the stage presentation and not a real "movie". Interesting. On stage Kline made his entrance swinging onto the stage from an audience box. I wonder if that will be retained in this version.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#12re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:46amThis was ALWAYS a filmed version of the stage production.
gilvisto
Understudy Joined: 8/2/08
#13re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 11/26/08 at 11:26amI'm going nuts here looking for a broadcast date... anyone have any leads?
It's not impossible...
#14re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 11/26/08 at 11:39am
no leads :/
i checked the website and they had nothing :/
SHAME!
i never saw this, but just from the cover i cannot WAIT to see it :)
it looks birlliant
#15re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:04pm
...and it WAS!
I cannot say enough about this performance.
The most enthralling piece of theatre of 2007, for me, anyway.
#16re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:17pm
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#19re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 11/27/08 at 9:58pm
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#20re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 11/27/08 at 10:04pm
Just watched that clip.
Jennifer Gardner is so beautiful. I just wish her performance wasn't so overripe-Masterpiece-Theater-esque.
Kevin Kline. Is. He just is. Awesome.
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
erinrebecca
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/29/04
#22re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 11/27/08 at 11:39pm
*Garner*, not Gardner.
I loved this production. Truly loved it. Can't wait to own the dvd and enjoy it yet again.
#23re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 11/28/08 at 2:47am
Yes! I am so excited!
I saw a production of Cyrano a couple years ago and have loved it ever since.
I can't wait to see it :)
gilvisto
Understudy Joined: 8/2/08
#24re: CYRANO on Great Performances
Posted: 1/3/09 at 11:43am
Hey there ya'll. I have had my copy on pre-order on Amazon since it was posted, but I had to change my address (back to school time) and I noticed the item description page
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001HB1JZQ
doesn't list Garner or Kline... anyone know why?
It's not impossible...
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