Al Pacino to Play Tennessee Williams in New Play?

Will Pacino actually learn his lines this time instead of cheating by using teleprompters/earpiece?
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Al-Pacino-to-Return-to-Broadway-as-Tennessee-Williams-in-New-Play-WHEN-GOD-LOOKED-AWAY-20160624

Updated On: 6/24/16 at 02:49 PM

Count me in for Judith Light!

This is aggressively terrible casting. I can't wait to see it.

Bless his passion for theater! He could make far more money for a lot less work doing screen work but he has been consistently working on Broadway since the 60s. Hopefully this works out better than China Doll.

Updated On: 6/24/16 at 03:45 PM

Tennessee Williams? Judith Light?!





Al Pacino?

Updated On: 6/24/16 at 04:03 PM

Get right on the horse after you fall off.

I have less issue with him knowing his lines than it just being poor casting.

No crib sheets.

whatndo you think those couple of Mac Books were planted on the set of Chima Doll, they weren't there for decoration.

JBroadway said: "Is all this dislike for Al Pacino based solely on China Doll? Before China Doll, I always got the sense that he is generally a pretty well-respected stage actor."



I suspect some it comes from the production of Glengarry Glen Ross a few years ago, too. Consensus was that production was too cartoony, due in part because of Pacino and his usual shtick.

I wish him well but how I wish it were Tim Curry or Roger Allam or Kevin Spacey or Johnny Depp or Ciaran Hinds or Stacy Keach... wow, there are so many possibilities.

Updated On: 12/17/16 at 05:32 PM

Updated On: 12/18/16 at 07:51 AM

Hilariously bad idea on many levels, but not hilarious enough to buy a ticket. Pacino can only do 1 accent - Bronx. He could never capture Williams' southern drawl convincingly. He also can't learn lines anymore, which means his acting has become a shadow of what it once was.

And last, Dotson Rader is a no-talent crypto-hooker, who has a sort of vague fame only as a hanger-on to and kept-boy/user of a few actual achievers (like Williams and the actress Ruth Ford). An interesting but brutal play could be written about this American tragedy of mediocrity, but not by himself. His book "Cry of the Heart" has been pretty universally excoriated by better minds and by people who were closer to Williams than he was.

Updated On: 12/19/16 at 08:50 AM