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
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August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broadway#1
Posted: 8/22/07 at 12:47am
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/110484.html
This is going to fill the Imperial?
re: August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broad#2
Posted: 8/22/07 at 12:55am
re: August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broad#2
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)?
re: August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broad#3
Posted: 8/22/07 at 7:08amSounds very epic. I'm glad that a play will be filling the Imperial for the time being.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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re: August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broad#4
Posted: 8/22/07 at 7:46am
3.5 hours.
That's gonna be fun.
re: August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broad#5
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!
re: August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broad#6
Posted: 8/22/07 at 9:27am
I am so happy for this!
Tracy Letts is a brilliant writer.
re: August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broad#7
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.
re: August, Letts' Lauded Tale of an Oklahoma Clan, Will Find Home on Broad#8
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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