Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
#1Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 8:38pm
WHAT A CAST!!! This is going to be AWESOME!
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/110285.html
#2re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 8:45pmWow! Just wow! Yet another show to see this season.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#2re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 8:48pmToo bad there isn't the possibility of an extension (due to "South Pacific" starting in The Beaumont so soon after.)
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being.jeremiah
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#3re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 8:52pmThis is something refreshing. GOONIES!
#4re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:03pm
Wow, that's one hell of a cast.
Cymbeline is still one of Shakespeare's worst.
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RockabyeHamlet
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#5re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:08pmAHHHH!!! *Jumps up and down with unbridled Excitement!*
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#6re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:25pmAhmelie, you really think so? I love Cymbeline.
#7re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:27pmStill, Shakespeare's worst is still better than some's best.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
Bwayfan4
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#8re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:45pmHow random is Phylicia Rashad? (At least to me...) The others I can understand...but Clair Huxtable? Huh?
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#9re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:48pm
I love Cymbelline.
Iachimo's line, on how Posthumus' mistress' honor could be compromised:
"You may wear her in title yours, but you know that strange fowl light upon neighbors' ponds".
I love it when Shakespeare talks dirty.
Personally, though, I'd rather see Cerveris as Iachimo than Posthumus.
Updated On: 8/13/07 at 09:48 PM
#10re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 10:18pm
How random is Phylicia Rashad? (At least to me...) The others I can understand...but Clair Huxtable? Huh?
You obviously never saw her Tony Award winning performance in RAISIN IN THE SUN.
That said, my problem with Rashad is that she has given the exact same performance that she gave in RAISIN in the two shows she did following (GEM OF THE OCEAN, BERNARDA ALBA).
It was the exact same characterization that made her RAISIN performance so unique. I'm assuming we'll see more of the same again here. That same voice, those inflections.
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Updated On: 8/13/07 at 10:18 PM
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
broadwaybaby086
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#11re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 10:51pmI. Am. There.
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#12re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 10:57pm
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#13re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 11:04pm
Does Martha Plimpton just pay rent there?
Seriouly though, an exciting cast.
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bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#14re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 11:07pmFor some reason, I strongly dislike Shakespeare's language in Cymbeline, but I love him elsewhere. Anyway, the plot is wonderful, if you can figure it out!
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#15re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 11:10pmWhat's to figure out? It's Othello without the tragedy and the Moor.
erinrebecca
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/29/04
#16re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 11:16pmExciting casting, with the exception of Rashad.
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#17re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 11:17pmIt's tough to figure out when reading it due to Shakespeare's strange, uncharacteristically odd language. I'm sure seeing it performed would be fine.
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#18re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 11:29pm
Honest, I don't get that it's harder to follow than other Shakespeare plays, and I just reread it. I always have understood Shakespeare better when reading it than seeing it performed.
Maybe try the Pelican version? It offers footnotes.
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#19re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 11:36pmIn addition to Cymbeine, I have read Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and The Taming of the Shrew. I was able to understand and follow all of those perfecly fine. For some reason, Cymbeline just was considerably more difficult to understand (for me) than the others. It was actually the only book for which I NEEDED to read summaries to understand what was going on.
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#20re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/13/07 at 11:41pm
Okay. I get it. Maybe it's just that I've done an awful lot of Shakespeare. I did have to refer to the footnotes more frequently than I'm accustomned to.
There's no question that Cymbeline one of his lesser plays.
A starter play, maybe.
#21re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/14/07 at 12:34am
I would like to see this Play. I like this story for some odd reason? I would be happy to see this or a few of the lesser performed Plays where I live. That cast sounds very good! I have to go re-read it but as much as I like, As You Like and Midsummer Night,(which is what we get) I really want to see something new and challenging.
I hope it goes well and look forward to reviews!!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#22re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/14/07 at 12:42am
God that's good.
Best verbal birthday present I've ever received.
keen on kean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#23re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/14/07 at 12:50pmIf there was ever a cast to make me want to see Cymbeline, this is it!
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#24re: Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!
Posted: 8/14/07 at 1:01pmi wanna see!!!!!
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