#1
Posted: 7/5/12 at 11:56pm
Anyone see the original or a great production? Who was in it? I love the movie. It needs a revival!
#2
Posted: 7/5/12 at 11:58pm
I've said for a while it needs to be revived with Judi Dench and Marcia Gay Harden.
#3
Posted: 7/6/12 at 12:10am
Saw It at Music Box Theatre with Elizabeth Ashley, Geraldine Page, and Carrie Fisher... Mesmerizing. One of the greatest nights of theatre in my life
#5
Posted: 7/6/12 at 12:39am
She was really great. Entire cast was electric. Amazing set design and lighting, too. One of those plays that you feel like you held your breath through the whole thing.
#6
Posted: 7/6/12 at 6:32am
I saw it as well...TWICE...once with the original leads...Ashley, Page and Plummer and then when Miss Diahann Carroll took over. Great play. I agree with Dallaslive's assessment. It really does need a revival.
#7
Posted: 7/6/12 at 6:58am
I saw it on Broadway with Elizabeth Ashley, Geraldine Page, and Carrie Fisher's understudy ... Maryann Plunkett.
All three were fantastic. I was completely riveted and blown away by the play.
By comparison, the film was such a disappointment. I was hoping for so much better than that.
Yes, it deserves a revival.
EDIT: If I were casting a revival today ...
Mother Superior: Ellen Burstyn or Cherry Jones
Psychiatrist: Melissa Leo or Mary Louise Parker
Agnes: Hailee Steinfeld
All three were fantastic. I was completely riveted and blown away by the play.
By comparison, the film was such a disappointment. I was hoping for so much better than that.
Yes, it deserves a revival.
EDIT: If I were casting a revival today ...
Mother Superior: Ellen Burstyn or Cherry Jones
Psychiatrist: Melissa Leo or Mary Louise Parker
Agnes: Hailee Steinfeld
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#8
Posted: 7/6/12 at 9:27am
Roundabout did a reading about five years ago with Viola Davis as Dr. Livingstone, Anne Hathaway as Agnes, and Lynn Redgrave as Mother Superior, directed by Doug Hughes.
It was apparently incredible, but they never got it off the ground, presumably because of scheduling issues with that particular cast (though I have a hard time thinking Hathaway would have made her Broadway debut in a part that pales in comparison to the other two in the play.)
It was apparently incredible, but they never got it off the ground, presumably because of scheduling issues with that particular cast (though I have a hard time thinking Hathaway would have made her Broadway debut in a part that pales in comparison to the other two in the play.)
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Updated On: 7/6/12 at 09:27 AM
#9
Posted: 7/6/12 at 10:38am
Mother Superior: Joan Allen
Psychiatrist: Laura Linney
Agnes: Alison Pill
Psychiatrist: Laura Linney
Agnes: Alison Pill
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#10
Posted: 7/6/12 at 11:02am
This is one of those productions that I've always said, "if I could go back in time"- the text is very well written and I adore Elizabeth Ashley- I think she is one of those actresses who were born for the stage- such presence!
#11
Posted: 7/6/12 at 3:39pm
Saw the original with Ashley, Page and Plummer. The play itself is kind of heavy handed but it has three great roles for three great actresses. The night I saw it the stage manager came out and announced that Elizabeth Ashley had broken her toe getting out of bed that morning and that she would be performing the show "using a cane and wearing sensible shoes". Ashley, no stranger to ham acting, used that cane to great comic effect.
#12
Posted: 7/6/12 at 4:02pm
Saw this play 3 times in one week - the only time I've ever done that. Cast was Diahann Carroll, Geraldine Page and Maryann Plunkett. All were excellent, Ms. Page was electrifying. After an evening performance, I was getting autographs (again) and three twenty-something Afro-American girls approached Ms. Carroll to autograph their Dreamgirls programs. (It was playing next door at the Imperial.) She looked at the program then looked at the girls and asked: Have you seen my show yet? They said they hadn't. She smiled and replied, as she handed the unsigned program back: After you see Agnes of God I'll sign your programs.
#13
Posted: 8/24/12 at 9:05pm
Elisabeth Shue could be good in it.
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#14
Posted: 8/25/12 at 12:44am
#15
Posted: 8/25/12 at 1:29am
i've always been curious about cherry jones' statements in the extended features of rick mckay's golden age.
she says of plummer, 'of my generation, she is the genius, she is the touched one; and touched with the greatness of the ages. and i just wish she would come back and devote the rest of her life to the theater, because there's no one who can touch her.'
I know she did summer and smoke a few years ago, but for people who have seen her, do you agree with jones' assessment? what about her work in pygmalion, a tase of honey?
she says of plummer, 'of my generation, she is the genius, she is the touched one; and touched with the greatness of the ages. and i just wish she would come back and devote the rest of her life to the theater, because there's no one who can touch her.'
I know she did summer and smoke a few years ago, but for people who have seen her, do you agree with jones' assessment? what about her work in pygmalion, a tase of honey?
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Updated On: 8/25/12 at 01:29 AM
#16
Posted: 8/25/12 at 1:37am
Brilliant but cray cray, I think?
Updated On: 8/25/12 at 01:37 AM
#18
Posted: 8/25/12 at 1:43am
I remember being very moved by her performance in the movie version of "The Hotel New Hampshire"...
#19
Posted: 8/25/12 at 2:23am
re: brilliant but cray cray
well, there may be some truth to that. she had one scene in the television series battlestar galactica. she was playing a type of medium, and her work is so interesting. varied and rhythmic. yet cutting and efficient.
i do wish more of her work was available.
well, there may be some truth to that. she had one scene in the television series battlestar galactica. she was playing a type of medium, and her work is so interesting. varied and rhythmic. yet cutting and efficient.
i do wish more of her work was available.
Namaste
#22
Posted: 8/25/12 at 3:07am
I haven't seen it in a long time, either. I was an early teen, too. Like 13 or 14? Anyway, Amanda was was what's her face in Garp. Ellen something? She was really good is all I was saying.
I also remember one year when I was a kid she was up for a Tony Award. And my dad made some snarky comment about her, because they showed her once, and when they showed her later she was wearing a sweater. And I just remember him being really quippy about it!
I also remember one year when I was a kid she was up for a Tony Award. And my dad made some snarky comment about her, because they showed her once, and when they showed her later she was wearing a sweater. And I just remember him being really quippy about it!
#23
Posted: 8/25/12 at 3:15am
I saw with Ashley, Page, and Plummer. All were excellent, but Plummer gave me chills. When she threw herself against the upstage wall and slid down to the floor, the whole audience gasped. It was scary real. And this was one of my first Broadway shows.
#24
Posted: 8/25/12 at 7:10am
Amanda Plummer had a cameo in THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP film as Ellen James. Her character is the inspiration for The Ellen Jamesons, a radical, extremist, feminist group. I won't spoil what The Ellen Jamesons stand for and promote but it will blow your mind when you find out. If you haven't read the book you should, it is one of the masterpieces of 20th century fiction.
#25
Posted: 8/25/12 at 8:17am
Plummer has only one scene and no dialogue in GARP and she still leaves an impression 30 years later. For perhaps her best screen work, I recommend the imperfect but unjustly forgotten 1983 Sidney Lumet/E.L. Doctorow drama DANIEL (Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse, Tovah Feldshuh, Ellen Barkin). She has the lead in an upcoming indie (ABIGAIL HARM), and is cast in the HUNGER GAMES sequel. She's never stopped working in indies and TV (three Emmy Awards), but dang we need her back on the New York stage! (Love the Cherry Jones quote.) Maybe, like her father, her prime is ahead of her. 
An aside: Why does the "cray cray" moniker only get applied to female performers? An actress who clearly relishes quirky roles and has worked non-stop in film, television, and theatre for 30 straight years isn't presently working on the New York stage, so she must be "cray cray" (subtext: difficult)? Interesting.
Amanda Plummer
An aside: Why does the "cray cray" moniker only get applied to female performers? An actress who clearly relishes quirky roles and has worked non-stop in film, television, and theatre for 30 straight years isn't presently working on the New York stage, so she must be "cray cray" (subtext: difficult)? Interesting.
Amanda Plummer
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