#1
Posted: 6/17/05 at 11:02am
Glass Menagerie to close on 7/3
#2
Posted: 6/17/05 at 11:07am
rats
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.....
Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash...
Tallulah Bankhead
#3
Posted: 6/17/05 at 11:09am
damnit. I really wanted to see it too. Damn my broke arse.
"The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys!~All About Eve
#4
Posted: 6/17/05 at 11:10am
It was a limited run all along, and is only closing two weeks early.
#5
Posted: 6/17/05 at 11:14am
I gotta go see it. When I met Sarah Paulson for the first time she told me that when I saw the show I could come backstage afterwards. I can't refuse an offer like that.
#6
Posted: 6/17/05 at 11:22am
Well the only thing I can say Im surprised about is that it lasted this long...the production was not good as hard as I tried to like it.
#7
Posted: 6/17/05 at 11:56am
Speak of the devil, For some reason I had a dream about this and Mary Stuart Masterson took over for Jessica Lange......
#8
Posted: 6/17/05 at 12:44pm
I hope this means that Leveaux won't be coming back to Broadway anytime soon.
#9
Posted: 6/17/05 at 12:47pm
I too am surprised it held out as long as it did with its miserable numbers. I don't get why they couldn't hold out just another two weeks either.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#10
Posted: 6/17/05 at 12:48pm
Leveaux has done first-rate work in the past. His revivals of Jumpers, The Real Thing and Anna Christie were all outstanding. He just needs to pick his properties more carefully from now on.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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#11
Posted: 6/17/05 at 12:48pm
Well I'm sure it conflicted with Slater’s groping schedule.
#12
Posted: 6/17/05 at 12:54pm
As Margo said, Leveaux has done some extraordinary work in the past. His "Jumpers" will probably go down as the definitive production of that particular show, and his "Anna Christie" was beyond words. This, however, was just not the right show for him. However, I am glad I saw it, if for no other reason than Sarah Paulson's heartbreaking Laura.
#13
Posted: 6/17/05 at 1:02pm
He needs to stay away from American classics, especially musicals.
#14
Posted: 6/17/05 at 1:05pm
I'll give you "Fiddler", but I thought his "Nine" was pretty damn brilliant.
#15
Posted: 6/17/05 at 1:05pm
I still think Paulson was robbed of a nomination.
I wonder if Lange will return to Bway again?
I wonder if Lange will return to Bway again?
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.....
Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash...
Tallulah Bankhead
#16
Posted: 6/17/05 at 1:10pm
"I still think Paulson was robbed of a nomination.
I wonder if Lange will return to Bway again?"
1. Yes, Paulson was robbed.
2. If Lange returns, I would venture to say that it won't be in anything written by Tennessee Williams.
I wonder if Lange will return to Bway again?"
1. Yes, Paulson was robbed.
2. If Lange returns, I would venture to say that it won't be in anything written by Tennessee Williams.
#17
Posted: 6/17/05 at 1:17pm
She'll be playing Nellie Forbush in Leveaux's reconcieved South Pacific set in an internment camp.
#18
Posted: 6/17/05 at 1:19pm
Actually, she'll be playing the title role in Leveaux's all-white "Caroline, or Change".
#19
Posted: 6/17/05 at 2:06pm
"..... For some reason I had a dream about this and Mary Stuart Masterson took over for Jessica Lange......"
I wouldn't mind seeing Mary Stuart Masterson in that role one day :)
I wouldn't mind seeing Mary Stuart Masterson in that role one day :)
#20
Posted: 6/17/05 at 2:07pm
Yea, those who say Leveaux shouldn't come back to Broadway really need to think about that statement.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#21
Posted: 6/17/05 at 2:09pm
i really wanted to see this, one of my favorite plays
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#22
Posted: 6/17/05 at 2:14pm
This is a reason why I wished I lived in NY; to go see the plays like this and Virginia Woolf that are closing and probably giving good prices on tickets!!!!!!
#23
Posted: 6/18/05 at 10:28pm
Revisited the show this afternoon. They re-worked some scenes, it's a much faster pace, still not enough to salvage the production, but at least now the audience laughs at the appropriate moments.
Joey Collins was a much better Gentleman Caller than Josh Lucas was. The scene was finally about Laura, as opposed to about him. The dynamic was much better and his portrayal certainly deserves a viewing.
I still am not liking Lange in the role and Christian Slater needs a hook to come out and get him. He hams it up, gestures at the latecomers in the audience, absolutely inappopriate. He rushes his lines that you can barely hear him in all the mumbling.
Lange just tries too hard. But with all the empty seats in the house, you can just stretch out in a row and take a nap during her and Slater's scenes.
Joey Collins was a much better Gentleman Caller than Josh Lucas was. The scene was finally about Laura, as opposed to about him. The dynamic was much better and his portrayal certainly deserves a viewing.
I still am not liking Lange in the role and Christian Slater needs a hook to come out and get him. He hams it up, gestures at the latecomers in the audience, absolutely inappopriate. He rushes his lines that you can barely hear him in all the mumbling.
Lange just tries too hard. But with all the empty seats in the house, you can just stretch out in a row and take a nap during her and Slater's scenes.
If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.....
Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too often they give their blessing to trash...
Tallulah Bankhead
#24
Posted: 6/18/05 at 10:34pm
Wow, both Williams' revivals closing on the same day(7/3/05). I find this a little freaky. Anyone else?
#25
Posted: 6/19/05 at 2:40pm
According to the Times yesterday, the producers said that the last two weeks of the run were "optional", and they decided not to exercise the option.
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