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Another HEDDA from Roundabout

Another HEDDA from Roundabout

Yankeefan007
#1Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:02pm

Added to Roundabout's schedule - a new "interpretation" of HEDDA GABLER, for the AA Theater in the winter.

Here's hoping that it's the Cate Blanchett production that played BAM.

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Borstalboy
#2re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:05pm

Aw, mom! HEDDA again????


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Yankeefan007
#2re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:11pm

What would this be, the third in the past 15 years?

Blanchett, Burton, the other one Roundabout did...

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Borstalboy
#3re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:14pm

And the Elizabeth Marvel/Ivo Van Hove collaboration a couple of years ago. Not that the calcified patrons of the Roundabout would notice.


I say: BRING BACK STRINDBERG!


"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

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BustopherPhantom
#4re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:20pm

Just to clarify, it's not this winter, it's Winter 2009.

So... that's something, maybe?

EDIT: Oh that's right. January and February are part of Winter, aren't they?


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-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
Updated On: 6/20/08 at 05:20 PM

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ray-andallthatjazz86
#5re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:25pm

I wonder who will be starring in it.


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BustopherPhantom
#6re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:26pm

Anything that (hopefully) brings Cate Blanchett to Broadway is fine by me.


"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

being.jeremiah
#7re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:36pm

Amen to that, BusterPhantom.

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folkyboy
#8re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:47pm

Wouldn't it be something if they got Patricia Heaton?

Ed_Mottershead
#9re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:54pm

I've always loved this play, which can bear repeated viewings/productions, partly because there's not really a "right" way to play the protagonist. It's the same thing with Hamlet -- endlessly fascinating and always open to reinterpretation and reevaluation.


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Gothampc
#10re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 6:00pm

"the other one Roundabout did..."

Wasn't it 1994? Kelly McGillis. Wasn't that the one they set in the 1950s?


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Reginald Tresilian
#11re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 6:03pm

Blanchett was fascinating; I'd happily see her again.

I just hope this thread doesn't devolve into that idiotic "But we just saw HEDDA three years ago" nonsense we've had to listen to about GYPSY.

Ed_Mottershead
#12re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 6:05pm

Thank you, Reginald. A masterpiece is a masterpiece is a masterpiece. And should be kept in front of the public, particularly younger people, to remind them of what brilliant theatre really is.


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theaterkid1015
#13re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 6:42pm

Since I don't get the Cate Blanchett appeal, I'll suggest Mary Louise Parker for Hedda. I just think she'd be REALLY interesting.


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CurtainPullDowner
#14re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 6:59pm

Martha Plimpton?

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inlovewithjerryherman
#15re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 7:50pm

love Hedda, I could care less.

we're actually doing it at my school next season.

LadyRosecoe
#16re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 8:30pm

I'm no stranger to plays, but this is one classic that I've been waiting to see! Very excited over here.

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folkyboy
#17re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 8:36pm

personally, i can't picture Mary Louise Park as Hedda. she's far too dead in her delivery....

whatever2
#18re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 9:23pm

a milquetoast addition to a milquetoast season ... brilliant casting (read: blanchett) would help, but im not sure it would save this choice.


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keen on kean
#19re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 9:50pm

I blush to admit I have never seen Hedda. Here's my chance.

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defyingravity11
#20re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 9:56pm

I'd love to see Martha Plimpton, but I feel like they would go for a bigger name.


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