August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broadway
August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broadway
Heybeenfood
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/06
#1August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broadway
Posted: 8/22/07 at 12:47am
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/110484.html
This is going to fill the Imperial?
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#2re: August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broad
Posted: 8/22/07 at 12:55am
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Updated On: 8/22/07 at 12:55 AM
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Understudy Joined: 5/3/06
#2re: August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broad
Posted: 8/22/07 at 2:04am
it just might!
I saw it a couple of weeks ago, and it is an intense evening of theatre, worthy (imho) of the lauds it has (almost uniformly) received.
Also, the capitalization costs are low ($2.4 million according to our friends at Variety), and with a single set with no moving parts, I can't imagine this will be that expensive to run (despite the large [for a play] cast {i'd venture a guess of $300,000/week at maximum}). So from a financial perspective, it makes a bit of sense for the imperial.
The questions... would they go to 7pm curtain times like the recent productions of O'Neill plays have done? Will they go for a 7 show week as a concession to IA and Equity (Although they were doing 8 show weeks, with a BRUTAL saturday schedule in chicago [3pm and 7:30 curtains! barely a half hour break for all involved)?
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#3re: August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broad
Posted: 8/22/07 at 7:08amSounds very epic. I'm glad that a play will be filling the Imperial for the time being.
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Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#4re: August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broad
Posted: 8/22/07 at 7:46am
3.5 hours.
That's gonna be fun.
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#5re: August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broad
Posted: 8/22/07 at 9:19am
I've seen the show twice and, trust me, it doesn't feel like three and a half hours at all. The Pirate Queen felt muuuccccchhhhh longer to me.
You all should definitely see this play. The cast works so well as an ensemble.
Yay for Steppenwolf for taking it to New York!
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BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#6re: August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broad
Posted: 8/22/07 at 9:27am
I am so happy for this!
Tracy Letts is a brilliant writer.
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#7re: August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broad
Posted: 8/22/07 at 9:31amHe's also a fanTAStic actor. The only bad thing about the play's going to NYC is that now he won't be in The Crucible at Steppenwolf this fall. I was really looking forward to seeing him in that. But that's totally selfish, so I'm not that upset.
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#8re: August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broad
Posted: 8/22/07 at 10:22am
It sounds really interesting/ exciting.
I'm glad that the Imperial won't sit, dark!
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