#1
Posted: 9/20/12 at 10:48am
Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
#2
Posted: 9/20/12 at 10:48am
Oh, I like this!
#3
Posted: 9/20/12 at 10:49am
I really love the sound of this.
#4
Posted: 9/20/12 at 10:56am
Hmm, interesting! I'm excited to see Debra Monk onstage again. And the more I think about it, the more I think Benjamin Walker could be pretty fantastic.
#5
Posted: 9/20/12 at 10:59am
I like Ciaran Hinds, but my heart wished for John Goodman.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#6
Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:04am
Wow! This cast is fantastic, incredibly electric and everybody is perfectly cast in their role. Benjamin Walker is a much better choice than someone as bland as Chris Pine, and having a seasoned stage actor alongside Johansson will bring out the best in her (it reminds me of when they got Liev Schreiber and Jessica Hecht to co-star with her in A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE). This is the must-see production of the season for me, will definitely start booking my trip to NY ASAP.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#7
Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:04am
I don't know who Hinds is. I love Benjamin Walker but he seems awfully young for Brick. (I did want Goodman, too, Kad. I love him and Big Daddy is the best written role in the play.)
Debra Monk is PERFECT as Big Mama.
This cast looks decent.
Debra Monk is PERFECT as Big Mama.
This cast looks decent.
#8
Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:08am
Ooh. I love Hinds. I didn't know he did stagework though.
He was in Harry Potter, In Bruges, Game of Thrones, Political Animals, The Road to Perdition, The Phantom movie, etc.
He was in Harry Potter, In Bruges, Game of Thrones, Political Animals, The Road to Perdition, The Phantom movie, etc.
#9
Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:12am
Walker is two years older than Johansson, I think they'll work together just fine.
Hinds played the Bill Clinton stand-in character in POLITICAL ANIMALS as a Big Daddy type, a terrible choice for that show but it bodes really well for this revival.
Hinds played the Bill Clinton stand-in character in POLITICAL ANIMALS as a Big Daddy type, a terrible choice for that show but it bodes really well for this revival.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#10
Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:21am
Aren't Brick and Maggie supposed to be in their mid-20's? For some reason, the age 26 is stuck in my mind.
#11
Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:22am
This is awesome.
#12
Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:24am
"Ooh. I love Hinds. I didn't know he did stagework though."
He did The Seafarer several years back.
He did The Seafarer several years back.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#13
Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:08pm
I love it, but I feel like this show gets revived too often.
#14
Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:08pm
@Kad -- Now that you've said John Goodman, I can't see anyone else in the role.
#15
Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:12pm
OK - now I am definitely interested.
#16
Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:17pm
Goodman played the role in LA several years ago, and his notices were very mixed.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#17
Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:18pm
Wow...so this is the third revival of Cat of a Hot Tin Roof to be on Broadway in less than a decade.
I love Tennessee Williams and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I will definitely be seeing this production...but I think there are other works of his that I would rather see a revival of like Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, Small Craft Warnings, Summer and Smoke, Suddenly Last Summer or The Rose Tattoo.
I love Tennessee Williams and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I will definitely be seeing this production...but I think there are other works of his that I would rather see a revival of like Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, Small Craft Warnings, Summer and Smoke, Suddenly Last Summer or The Rose Tattoo.
#18
Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:25pm
Goddammit. I was totally going to pass on this because of Johansson, because I thought she was pretty bad in A View From the Bridge, but Walker is too good to pass up.
#19
Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:29pm
I am very excited for this. I like Hinds a lot but I can't picture him in the role.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#20
Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:32pm
THE ROSE TATTOO!!!! I've been trying to think of a vehicle for Mariska Hargitay forever (shut up, I love SVU), and THAT IS IT!!!!
#21
Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:32pm
Very interesting casting! Benjamin Walker is a good choice.
#22
Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:33pm
Benjamin Walker sweating in a wifebeater. I'm so there.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#23
Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:35pm
Robbie, that's BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!
#24
Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:39pm
Benjamin Walker's bare ass was the only good thing about that Les Liaisons Dangereuses revival a few years back.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#25
Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:39pm
I'll pass it along to my Roundabout friends at the opening night party for IF THERE IS... tonight.
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