Angela Lansbury joins Blithe Spirit- Page 2

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 10/13/08 at 10:17pm

Awesome!!!

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 10/13/08 at 10:19pm

Really, how could she turn down such a plum role?

[Bwayidiot]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 12:00am

DAMN. I will be in NYC in Dec and can't get there in the spring. Angela is one of my all time favorites.

Only other Arcati's I've seen were Bea Lily in High Spirits and Tammy Grimes in a Toronto production. Lansbury will outshine both.

[bschneid76]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 12:21am

Great news!!! So glad it will happen! I am totally excited to see the show!

[JeaniusIsMe]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 12:26am

I knew law school in NYC was a good idea.....

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 12:26am

Anybody have an inkling as to what house this'll take?
I'm BEYOND THRILLED about this news - This is a definite MUST!

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 12:28am

LimelightMike, with SPAMALOT rumored to be eying a January 6th closing date, my guess is that BLITHE SPIRIT is headed toward The Shubert.

Updated On: 10/14/08 at 12:28 AM

[mormonophobic]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 12:53am

I just literally spit out my drink in one of those movie moments of shock. Luckily just water but still. I remember reading this as a rumor on here a while ago, but I never listen to those so as to no get my hopes up. I am so very excited about this! Does anyone know when tickets go on sale? And the month of February seems to be getting a lot of movement. To the best of my recollection, this is also when Hairspray ends and when Lin-Manuel leaves In The Heights. I am not missing this show, but I would love if all of this works out to one amazing trip (especially since I now know that Gypsy is extending to March, giving me a chance to see it a third time).

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 12:55am

A play at the Shubert?!

The Shubert is a musical house.

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 1:25am

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited!

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 6:17am

<-------- Goes to check out the price of airfares to New York

[buddharich]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 6:27am

Totally THRILLED!!!

Does anybody else remember Geraldine Page's Madame Arcati in 1987, her last broadway role?? She was wonderfully over-the-top, which fortunately this role allows actresses to do. I'm glad Angela is going to take on this role, she will be SO delicious!

And I would think Christine Ebersole would be Elvira, not Ruth, which I consider the dullest role in the play.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 6:47am

The Shubert used to house the occasional play, but I don't think one has played that theatre since The Constant Wife in 1975. With 1,400 seats and two balconies, it's a little inhospitable for a play. Since Blithe Spirit is gathering a high profile cast and the show is slated for a Shubert-owned house, I would expect that they'll be in one of the prime 45th Street playhouses. All My Sons is slated to end January 11, and Blithe Spirit is to start in February, so the Schoenfeld makes sense... or perhaps they are waiting for the similarly-sized Jacobs, should 13 not make it.

[dlass727]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 7:49am

Ebersole and Lansbury together...Somebody wake me up! On second thought don't.

[MamasDoin'Fine]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 7:55am

This is superb, sublime casting. The three are just perfect for each of their parts.
Once it's been a huge hit on Broadway maybe, just maybe, we could have a season in London!
Great news, also that Ms Lansbury has decided that 'Deuce' wasn't her to be last Broadway appearance!

[NY_Broadway2]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 8:31am

I have to go see this now! I've never seen her perform live and I think this will be my only chance so I'm definitely going to go. I'm so ecstatic! I didn't think she would come back to Broadway.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 9:13am

Great news!

I saw Page in the role and she was sublime...this is, well, sublimer!

[devonian.t]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 10:24am

Bliss!

[WestVillage]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 11:19am

The original production of Albee's Seascape also played the Shubert in 1975. Then ACL arrived and stayed for 15 years, followed by all musicals. But yes, plays have been produced at the Shubert.

No matter what theatre this is in, seeing Angela in this role will be magical.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 11:40am

And of course, no thanks to my parents who don't even know who Maya Angelou is, I'll be missing this.

[Bwayidiot]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 11:56am

If you want to catch a "preview" of what Angela's performance might be like, check out the film of "Death on the Nile" with Peter Ustinov.

[MamasDoin'Fine]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 12:18pm

I'm sure they'll get more than the 104 performances that the last revival got on Broadway starring Richard Chamberlain in 1987.
The musical version got a good run of 375 performances back in 1964 with Beatrice Lillie as Mdm Arcarti.

[devonian.t]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 12:52pm

I love Angela in Death on the Nile and her pronunciation of Hercules Porret!

[lildogs]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 1:03pm

I believe La Lansbury won the Best Supporting Actress award from the National Society of FIlm Critics for DEATH ON THE NILE...maybe Board of Review.

And addy, this is the best news of the YEAR!

[LotteTBS138]

Posted: 10/14/08 at 1:07pm

This is awesome! I've never seen her on stage! I'm gonna bust out my Murder, She Wrote dvds to get myself back in the spirit!