Audra returning to Broadway...?- Page 3

[natashalost]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:06pm

Doing a bit of research to try to figure out which show Audra will be in. The only problem is I'm not too familiar with plays so I need some help!

Criteria: Must be a play that has previously been on Broadway, as it is a revival, by a living writer, that will have two shows running simultaneously on Broadway, by the time this opens. (Thanks SomethingPeculiar!)

Here are the possibilities guesses by author! 

Terrence McNally (Anastasia) - The Ritz, Mothers and Sons, It's Only a Play, Deuce, And Things That Go Bump in the Night, Ravenswood, Dunelawn, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (This show has a major male and female role, and according to SomethingPeculiar she has an Academy award and Tony-nominated acting co-star)

Rick Elice (The Cher Show) - Peter & the Starcatcher

Lee Hall (Network) - The Pitmen Painters

Harvey Fierstein (Kinky Boots, Torch Song) - Casa Valentina

Aaron Sorkin (To Kill a Mockingbird) - The Farnsworth Invention, A Few Good Men 

Kenneth Lonergan (Waverly Gallery) - This is Our Youth, Lobby Hero

Updated On: 9/20/18 at 05:06 PM

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:07pm

I don't have enough $ for all this theatre, and it's breaking my heart! Lol

[freewilma]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:15pm

natashalost said: "Doing a bit of research to try to figure out which show Audra will be in. The only problem is I'm not too familiar with plays so I need some help!

Criteria: Must be a play that has previously been on Broadway, as it is a revival, by aliving writer, that will havetwo shows running simultaneouslyon Broadway, by the time this opens. (Thanks SomethingPeculiar!)

Here are the possibilities guesses byauthor!

Terrence McNally (Anastasia) - The Ritz,Mothers and Sons,It's Only a Play,Deuce,And Things That Go Bump in the Night, Ravenswood, Dunelawn,Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune(This show has a major male and female role, and according to SomethingPeculiarshe has an Academy award and Tony-nominated acting co-star)

Rick Elice(The Cher Show) - Peter & the Starcatcher

Lee Hall (Network) - The Pitmen Painters

Harvey Fierstein (Kinky Boots, Torch Song) - Casa Valentina

Aaron Sorkin (To Kill a Mockingbird) - The FarnsworthInvention,A Few Good Men(there are no female roles in this show, however, I'm including it on this list because of the possibility of a gender-bent revival)

Kenneth Lonergan (Waverly Gallery) - This is Our Youth, Lobby Hero"

Rehearsals started for Mockingbird today.  Any chance there's been a change in the casting of Calpurnia?  And A Few Good Men does have one woman in the cast (my son was in the play just last year).  

 

[natashalost]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:17pm

freewilma said: "natashalost said: "...And A Few Good Men does have one woman in the cast (my son was in the play just last year)."

Thank you! Editing my reply. 

[JSquared2]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:21pm

The correct show has not been mentioned by anyone yet.  

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:22pm

I just passed by the Shubert yesterday and LaTanya Richardson Jackson was still on the poster

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:23pm

Could she be returning to Master Class? 

[Stephen75]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:24pm

BroadwayNYC2 said: "Could she be returning to Master Class?"

I think it's definitely Frankie and Johnny. 

[natashalost]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:31pm

JSquared2 said: "The correct show has not been mentioned by anyone yet."

I went through every living playwright for all musicals and plays that are either currently on Broadway or coming to Broadway soon. Was there a key detail missed?

Are you considering a revival a show that has previously played off-Broadway but not on Broadway? This is the only thing I can think of that would have made me miss whatever show it is.

[Sondheimite]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:32pm

I tend to think it's Frankie & Johnny.

Would love for it to be Masterclass or Spider Woman. 

[JSquared2]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:32pm

natashalost said: "JSquared2 said: "The correct show has not been mentioned by anyone yet."

I went through every living playwright for all musicals and plays that are either currently on Broadway or coming to Broadway soon. Was there a key detail missed?

Are you considering a revival a show that has previously played off-Broadway but not on Broadway? This is the only thing I can think of that would have made me miss whatever show it is."

Getting warmer --- keep digging! 

 

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:39pm

[natashalost]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:46pm

UPDATED LIST: (Not completed)

Criteria: Must be a play that has previously appeard off-Broadway or on Broadway, as it is a revival, by a living writer, that will have two shows running simultaneously on Broadway, by the time this opens. 

Additionally, JSquared2 said before that the correct show has not been named. I have bolded all new additions to the list.

Dominique Morisseau (Ain't Too Proud) - Pipeline, Paradise Blue

Chad Beguelin (Aladdin, The Prom) - Harbor

Itamar Moses  (The Band's Visit) - The Four of Us, Completeness, Bach at Leipzig, Back Back Back

Terrence McNally (Anastasia) - Corpus Christi, Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?, Sweet Eros/ Witness, Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams, Love! Valour! Compassion!, By the Sea, By the Sea, By the Beautiful, A Perfect Ganesh, The Stendhal Syndrome, Adaptation/ Next, Some Men, The Lady of the Carnellias, Short Talks on the Universe, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, The Lisbon Traviata, Golden Age, Fire and Air, Bad Habits, The Ritz, Mothers and Sons, It's Only a Play, Deuce, And Things That Go Bump in the Night, Ravenswood, Dunelawn, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, 

Rick Elice (The Cher Show) - Peter & the Starcatcher

Lee Hall (Network) - The Pitmen Painters

Harvey Fierstein (Kinky Boots, Torch Song) - Casa Valentina

Aaron Sorkin (To Kill a Mockingbird) - The Farnsworth Invention, A Few Good Men 

Kenneth Lonergan (Waverly Gallery) - This is Our Youth, Lobby Hero

[Sauja]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:49pm

JSquared2 said: "natashalost said: "JSquared2 said: "The correct show has not been mentioned by anyone yet."

I went through every living playwright for all musicals and plays that are either currently on Broadway or coming to Broadway soon. Was there a key detail missed?

Are you considering a revival a show that has previously played off-Broadway but not on Broadway? This is the only thing I can think of that would have made me miss whatever show it is."

Getting warmer --- keep digging!

"

 

OMG. Audra McDonald in a one-woman Corpus Christi. 

 

Realer guesses: Stendhal Syndrome or Dedication/The Stuff of Dreams.

 

[Sauja]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:51pm

Natasha, to be helpful, The Four of Us, Back Back Back, and Bach at Leipzig don't have female characters.

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:51pm

While we're on the subject, I want a revival of LIPS TOGETHER TEETH APART. Make it happen

[Sauja]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:53pm

BroadwayNYC2 said: "While we're on the subject, I want a revival of LIPS TOGETHER TEETH APART. Make it happen"

There was one (not especially well received) at Second Stage in 2014. And then, of course, the aborted Roundabout production of a few years earlier.

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 5:55pm

Can we just ... get the title already? Lol

[CT2NYC]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 6:00pm

No one has mentioned Lanford Wilson yet. Talley's Folly?

[Sauja]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 6:02pm

CT2NYC said: "No one has mentioned Lanford Wilson yet.Talley's Folly?"

Sadly, he's no longer with us, so he doesn't fit the criteria. And is Burn This for sure happening?

 

I confess, I like a good guessing game and happen to have some free time at the moment. Far too much of which I'm spending mentally inserting Audra McDonald into random shows.

[phan24]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 6:35pm

It’s definitely already been mentioned here, a Terrence McNally play.

[MayAudraBlessYou2]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 6:51pm

Wow, quite an impressive list! :)

In terms of the co-star I mentioned...he was Tony nominated for his most recent Broadway role. He won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award but ultimately lost at the Tonys.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 6:53pm

This thread is so damn stupid.

[Sauja]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 7:04pm

MayAudraBlessYou2 said: "Wow, quite an impressive list! :)

In terms of the co-star I mentioned...he was Tony nominated for his most recent Broadway role. He won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award but ultimately lost at the Tonys."

Michael Shannon? 

 

I have become FAR too invested in this. Feel free to shoot me a message. :)

[Elegance101]

Posted: 9/20/18 at 7:06pm

Is it just the two of them or are there other roles in this production? Have those roles been cast?