All Female Glengarry Glen Ross Revival??

[brdwybound04]

Posted: 6/26/18 at 6:36pm

I can’t imagine there being much of an audience for this being that it was just revived in 2005 & 2012...???

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Is-An-All-Female-GLENGARRY-GLEN-ROSS-Coming-To-Broadway-20180626

[Stephen75]

Posted: 6/26/18 at 7:40pm

brdwybound04 said: "I can’t imagine there being much of an audience for this being that it was just revived in 2005 & 2012...???

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Is-An-All-Female-GLENGARRY-GLEN-ROSS-Coming-To-Broadway-20180626"

Laurie Metcalf for any role! 

[wonkit]

Posted: 6/26/18 at 7:46pm

I saw an excellent all-female performance of this play in Stamford CT at Curtain Call theater about 2 years ago. It is fascinating with women rather than men, and works surprisingly well. For that run, Mamet insisted that none of the names or gender references be changed. I wonder if the same rule would apply to a Broadway incarnation?

[Jarethan]

Posted: 6/26/18 at 8:01pm

I'd love to see Jessica Chastain in it.  Her performances in Miss Sloane and Molly's Game were to me auditions for Glengarry.  Agree re Laurie Metcalfe as well.  There are so many talented women who would put an interesting spin on this play.

[A Director]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 12:20am

Why?

[missthemountains]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 12:45am

this sounds so so good, but considering Mamet struck down a production of Oleanna for a transwoman in the role of Carol, I'm curious how this would come to fruition.

[John Adams]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 1:13am

No. Nope. Nyet. Non.

This is not just a bad idea - it is a WRONG idea.This is both bad and wrong like an all male version of The Vagina Monologues kind of bad and wrong. Like an all male Steel Magnolias. 

No. Just... don't.

[Sondheimite]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 2:02am

I refuse to support any work by David Mamet.

 

[Danielle49]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 2:27am

Wait isn't one of the main points of the play to look at toxic masculinity

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 2:47am

Unless they can get A-list stars involved, no way this will actually come to fruition.

Even then - I second the question: “Why?” I’ve seen a coed version. It was interesting, but ultimately made no sense. It’s a play about men.

The movie is really good. We don’t need any more productions of the stage version - not another $10 miliion Broadway revival anyway.

[John Adams]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 9:25am

The Distinctive Baritone said: "It’s a play about men." and "The movie is really good."

I agree wholeheartedly. The very best embellishment on the original script was the addition of Alec Baldwin's character for the movie. That character is an additional color in the spectrum that I didn't realize was so obviously missing until it was finally there. 

No matter who, or how phenomenally talented an all female cast might be, the resulting production would ring false. ...like baking snickerdoodles, but substituting the cinnamon out for coriander. Coriander is delicious and citrus-y, but snickerdoodles are all about the cinnamon. You swap out the cinnamon, and 'ya don't really have a snickerdoodle, do 'ya? 

 

Updated On: 6/27/18 at 09:25 AM

[Broadway61004]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 9:56am

This makes Cats seem like a good idea in comparison.

And because I've already heard the argument "but women can sell real estate too", A) To borrow another poster's example, Glengarry Glenn Ross is as much about selling real estate as Steel Magnolias is about cutting hair and B) Name one real estate office in 1980 Chicago that was made up of all women.

[Kad]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 10:01am

I really don't understand the point of this. And considering that Mamet is such a control freak- remember his ban on talkbacks?- I am surprised he'd give his blessing.

[JSquared2]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 11:07am

Sondheimite said: "I refuse to support any work by David Mamet.
 

He's crushed.

P.S.  Get over yourself.

[Sondheimite]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 11:12am

JSquared2 said: "Sondheimite said: "I refuse to support any work by David Mamet.


He's crushed.

P.S. Get over yourself."

shut up. 

It not getting over myself, it refusing to support a man who is against gay marriage and who is an a$$hole. 

 

[Kad]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 11:38am

JSquared2 said: "Sondheimite said: "I refuse to support any work by David Mamet.


He's crushed.

P.S. Get over yourself."

 

I’m surprised your glass house is still standing, the way you constantly toss stones. 

 

[Sondheimite]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 12:08pm

Kad said: "JSquared2 said: "Sondheimite said: "I refuse to support any work by David Mamet.


He's crushed.

P.S. Get over yourself."



I’m surprised your glass house is still standing, the way you constantly tossstones.

"

 

[Rainah]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 12:15pm

I think it's interesting from a point of putting women in the roles to point out how damaging toxic masculinity can be. It IS about masculinity, but I wonder if there's not a way to make those themes stronger with non traditional casting. 

[Broadway Joe]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 12:26pm

I can't imagine this would do well financially, it reeks of a bomb. Not because of the cast but more so because people aren't going to choose this when they have most likely seen a version of it before over other shows.

[Tom5]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 12:45pm

Seeing this great play with an all male cast one would have to think this is the way it probably was. Seeing it with an all female cast one would have to think this is the way it never was.

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 1:18pm

How about a new play? What a concept. 

[lala3]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 5:19pm

The theatre company I work with which is amateur and is in Canada, on the west coast, was considering producing this play with the original gender casting in fall 2019. Is there a possibility that we won't get the performing rights if a professional production will possibly be running at the same time, even if it's a different country and coast?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 6/27/18 at 5:28pm

While anything is possible, you shouldn't have anything to worry about.   Usually, a b'way revival will cause other productions within a certain mileage to be restricted.    

 

[TheSassySam]

Posted: 8/9/18 at 6:06pm

Confirmed for May. 

 

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-Amy-Morton-Slated-to-Direct-All-Female-Broadway-Production-of-GLENGARRY-GLEN-ROSS-20180809

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 8/9/18 at 7:17pm

Is David Mamet against gay marriage? I've never read anything from him that would suggest that, and several of his plays (November, Romance, Boston Marriage, The Anarchist) have openly gay characters