Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
#1Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 7:32am
During press call ahead of Driving Miss Daisy's premiere in Perth she said the following:
Lansbury and Jones, at 87 and 82-years-old respectively, have no intentions of leaving the spotlight.
"After all, we are of an age, but we all have plans," Lansbury said.
"I'm not stopping. I have two plays in the future and James has one he's already learning the lines for.
"If you're an actor and you take care of yourself, you're going to keep going."
Each have their unique ways of surviving the stage; Jones calls himself a "vampire" while Lansbury says she's the "bionic woman".
"I think I'm a vampire," Jones said.
"I walk on the stage and get energy from the audience because they're so concentrated I have to concentrate as well."
Lansbury added: "We rest, we take a nap, we don't eat stupidly, we take care of the bods and that's very, very important when you get to a certain age.
"I'm the bionic woman; I've got knees, hips, everything is new and that has made a tremendous difference to me; replacements are high on my list of goodies."
http://www.watoday.com.au/entertainment/theatre/iconic-actors-grace-perth-for-driving-miss-daisy-20130607-2nv6w.html#ixzz2VWsaaSU6
One is a Broadway revival of The Chalk Garden that is supposed to open this fall. I wonder what is the other one and could it be a West End production instead of Broadway?
JarqueLemos
Stand-by Joined: 5/24/13
#2Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 8:10ambless her
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#2Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 8:25amShe's doing the Chalk Garden in the fall, I know that. (She's been announced for awhile-I am very excited!!!)
#3Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 8:35am
"I wonder what is the other one and could it be a West End production instead of Broadway?"
I hope so, so much!
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#4Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 8:53amDuring Blithe Spirit, Angela had trouble with lines and I think she had to have an earpiece. Is she using an earpiece for these productions?
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#5Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 8:56am
Yeah, The Chalk Garden revival sounds terribly exciting. It’s a great role for her that could bring Ms. Lansbury that record-setting 6 Tony Award. I imagine Miss Madrigal will also be played by a big star. I hope they can get someone like Kristin Scott Thomas, Cate Blanchett or Emma Thompson.
As for the second project I wish it’d be a musical and preferably in UK or her beloved Ireland.
Ms. Lansbury is a true inspiration and one of the greatest actresses of her time and it’s fantastic that she still presents us with a chance to witness her brilliance on stage, but I do wish she’ll do at least one more film project (Hello, Rob Marshall! She’ll be perfect for Granny in Into The Woods). Can such a legendary star really end her film career on something like Mr. Popper's Penguins? It’s a cute kids movie and no Wicked Stepmother or The Transformers: The Movie, but still.
#6Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 8:58amNo, she doesn't. She also didn't use it in A Little Night Music and The Best Man.
#7Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 10:35am
I think the second show is the Ahrens and Flaherty adaptation of ANASTASIA. Lansbury played the role she gave voice to in the animated film at a workshop, and the songwriters wrote a new song for her.
#8Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 11:07amThat would be awesome, but from what I remember the show is supposed to open in Russia first, featuring Russian actors, of course.
wildcat
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/04
#9Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 11:50amThere was talk that Cate Blanchett had invited her to do Kander and Ebb's THE VISIT at the Sydney Theatre Company.
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#10Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 12:01pmI don't particularly care for The Chalk Garden as a play, but I'd crawl on broken glass to see Angela do it.
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#11Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 12:21pmRetirement, I hope.
#12Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 12:26pm
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#13Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 1:49pmlupone76, Broadway World's police should ban you for life for committing such heinous act against humanity. For life.
#14Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 1:58pm
Interesting, I guess it might be it. Can't believe Angela Lansbury will headline two Australian productions at this point of her career and her home country will get none.
Well, it's their loss. She recently said she would love to perform at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, where her mother Moyna Macgill used to play, if they ask her, but apparently Britain isn't interested in having her.
egghumor
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#15Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 2:01pm
I don't think she's completely given up on PRETTYBELLE.
#16Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 8:29pm
"There was talk that Cate Blanchett had invited her to do Kander and Ebb's THE VISIT at the Sydney Theatre Company."
In which year?? I want to believe this but it sounds like such a fantasy...
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 6/7/13 at 08:29 PM
#17Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 9:19pmI still think she'd make a wonderful Fairy Godmother in Cinderella.
#18Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 9:29pmThe Visit if it happens will be a co production between the MTC and STC, for the 2014 season. Miss Lansbury was asked during the Sydney season of Miss Daisy.
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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#19Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/7/13 at 9:48pm
F*CKing hell, what an event that would be. And I thought DAISY was enough.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 6/7/13 at 09:48 PM
#20Angela Lansbury said she has 2 plays currently in production. Any idea what it might be?
Posted: 6/8/13 at 7:17am
The Visit, if it happens would be amazing. After all it was developed specifically for her almost 15 years ago.
Interesting how a couple of years before her Broadway return in Deuce Ms. Lansbury said she didn't even think about going back to the theater. Then, after A Little Night Music she said that she doesn't want the pressure of having to carry a show in a major role and everyone assumed we would only see her in supporting parts like in The Best Man from now on.
Yet, now she's been headlining a 6 months tour on the other side of the world, has another major role lined up on B'way in a couple of months, and is in talks to go back to Australia to play the lead in a musical. Amazing!
She truly is unstoppable and full of surprises.
Angela Lansbury sings Love And Love Alone from The Visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93XKrmcSP44
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