Adam Driver Talks ANGELS IN AMERICA

[playlover2010]

Posted: 10/5/15 at 6:56pm

Signature is doing a new video series celebrating their 25th Anniversary. First video is Adam Driver talking about doing Tony Kushner's ANGELS IN AMERICA. New video will be posted every Friday.

Signature Voices: Adam Driver Talks About Kushner's ANGELS IN AMERICA

[Jane2]

Posted: 10/5/15 at 7:13pm

thanks for posting that link, playlover. I saw that version of the play and enjoyed it almost as much as the original. Being a big fan of both Driver and Urie, I was in heaven! I hope they have a video with Urie.

[playlover2010]

Posted: 10/6/15 at 9:06am

Driver was very different than Zach Quinto (different energy and physicality). He really surprised me, I thought he was excellent. Urie too.

[The Other One]

Posted: 10/6/15 at 10:18am

I did not see Zach Quinto (thought he was just OK as Tom Wingfield), but I wasn't crazy about Joe Mantello or Ben Shenkman as Louis.  I wondered if it was a no-win role, serving its purpose in the play but leaving the actor with an uphill climb.  Both Adam and his understudy (who I saw in Perestroika) were magnificent.  They changed my perception of Louis.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/6/15 at 10:28am

I finally understand the phrase "I just can't."

I saw Mantello, who was the template.  I saw Quinto, who was the second best Louis I've seen after Mantello.  In the hands of a very talented actor, this role is a gold mine.

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 10/6/15 at 10:50am

Quinto was the strongest in that production. (I only saw the first cast)

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/6/15 at 10:54am

I thought Borle and Porter were his equals. 

[Jane2]

Posted: 10/6/15 at 11:37am

Adam D. played a better Louis than Schenkman, I thought. Also, Jeffrey Wright's Belize is something that will forever stay with me.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/6/15 at 11:58am

Almost everybody I've ever seen play Louis was better than Schenkman except for the unfortunate guy I saw in a community theater production I left at the first intermish. 

[The Other One]

Posted: 10/6/15 at 12:07pm

FindingNamo said: "I finally understand the phrase "I just can't."

I saw Mantello, who was the template.  I saw Quinto, who was the second best Louis I've seen after Mantello.  In the hands of a very talented actor, this role is a gold mine.

 

Finding Namo, you made me laugh and I should explain.  I did not get Louis when I first saw the play in spite of Joe's excellent performance.  This was as much about me as anything else. Shenkman I just thought was miscast and not very good in the role.  I wondered if Louis couldn't be played by a straight actor, but Adam Driver proved that is not so.  I have no idea what his understudy, Eric Bryant's, offstage sexuality is, but he was, if anything, even better than Adam.  (Incredibly, he understudied Prior and Joe as well)

 

Updated On: 10/6/15 at 12:07 PM