Arsenic and Old Lace

[MadelineKahnFan]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 9:27pm

I think its time for a revival. Love to see Cheyenne Jackson in the role of Mortimer Brewster. He does have great comic timing.

[ahmelie]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 9:29pm

With Lansbury and Seldes together again?

[glimpseofstocking]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 9:31pm

One could only hope!

[jv92]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 9:35pm

It's a very funny play. It'd be nice to see it revived. I tried musicalizing this for fun in the style of a comic operetta, but either that concept didn't work or it just wasn't right for musicalizaiton. But it's a fun play.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 10:40pm

Now there's a great idea. Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes in a good play. Someone pitch it to them, quick!

[madbrian]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 10:54pm

I would LOVE to see this revived, and if either Lansbury and/or Seldes is unavailable, I'd like to see Stritch play one of the aunts.

[DickonDefysGravity]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 12:12am

Maggie Smith?
And Gavin Creel.
And Julia Stiles.

:)

[WhizzerMarvin]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 12:37am

Not only is this a fun play, but a great movie too. I have heard that Cary Grant thought it was his worst performance on film, but I find him absolutely hysterical. The expression on his face when he first looks in the window seat is priceless. Josephine Hull and Jean Adair make incredible aunts (did they originate the roles on stage?), plus Raymond Massey cracks me up as Boris Karloff...I mean Jonathan.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 9:32am

Cary Grant is absolutely amazing in this film. He pulls off triple takes with perfect comic timing. Not easy to do without an audience giving feedback.

Lansbury and Seldes would be wonderful in those roles. I hope a producer is out there taking notes.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:19am

While I'd like to see a good production of this on Broadway, I'd prefer a revival of Charley's Aunt.

Unfortunately, the US doesn't have a National Theatre dedicated to doing the great classics.

Updated On: 3/5/08 at 10:19 AM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:20am

Wow- what a great idea- but I don't know about Cheyenne. Maybe when Mario Lopez finishes up with Chorus Line.

[amoni]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 11:57am

When George Clooney did "Fail Safe" live on TV, I thought he should have done next "Arsenic & Old Lace" live too, with Maggie Smith and Judy Dench. Don't know if he'd ever do Broadway.

[puppetman2]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 12:32pm

A composer I know wanted to do a musical of Arsenic, but in checking for the rights was told that the author had a clause in the agreements that it could not be done as a musical.

One of the things I miss in the otherwise great film (wish they could have gotten Boris Karloff for it) is the change in the line at the end when in the play Mortimer finds about his parents and yells "I'm a Bastard" not the "son of a sea cook" sanitized version.

Updated On: 3/5/08 at 12:32 PM