Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#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.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#2re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:05pmAw, mom! HEDDA again????
"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
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#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...
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#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
#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?
"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
Updated On: 6/20/08 at 05:20 PM
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
#5re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:25pmI wonder who will be starring in it.
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#6re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:26pmAnything 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
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
being.jeremiah
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#8re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:47pmWouldn't it be something if they got Patricia Heaton?
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#9re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 5:54pmI'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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#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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#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
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#12re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 6:05pmThank 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.
BroadwayEd
#13re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 6:42pmSince 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#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
Broadway Star Joined: 8/4/07
#16re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 8:30pmI'm no stranger to plays, but this is one classic that I've been waiting to see! Very excited over here.
#17re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 8:36pmpersonally, i can't picture Mary Louise Park as Hedda. she's far too dead in her delivery....
whatever2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/06
#18re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 9:23pma 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#19re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 9:50pmI blush to admit I have never seen Hedda. Here's my chance.
#20re: Another HEDDA from Roundabout
Posted: 6/20/08 at 9:56pmI'd love to see Martha Plimpton, but I feel like they would go for a bigger name.
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