Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

[TalkinLoud]

Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#1

Posted: 9/20/12 at 10:48am

Interesting cast!

http://www.deadline.com/2012/09/cat-on-a-hot-roof-revival-scarlett-johansson-is-maggie-ciaran-hinds-is-big-daddy-benjamin-walker-is-brick-debra-monk-is-big-mama/

[Jordan Catalano]

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!

[showchoirguy]

Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#2

Posted: 9/20/12 at 10:49am

I really love the sound of this.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#3

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.

[Kad]

Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#4

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."

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#5

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"

[dreaming]

Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#6

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.

[willep]

Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#7

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.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#8

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.

"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"

[SonofRobbieJ]

Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#9

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.

[Owen22]

Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#10

Posted: 9/20/12 at 11:22am

This is awesome.

[Kad]

Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#11

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.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[aaronb]

Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#12

Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:08pm

I love it, but I feel like this show gets revived too often.

[aaronb]

Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#13

Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:08pm

@Kad -- Now that you've said John Goodman, I can't see anyone else in the role.

[wonkit]

Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#14

Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:12pm

OK - now I am definitely interested.

[AC126748]

Benjamin Walker, Ciarn Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#15

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

[Tom1071]

Benjamin Walker, Ciarn Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#16

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.

[Taryn]

Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#17

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.

[little_sally]

Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#18

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.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#19

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!!!!

[theaterfan862]

Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#20

Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:32pm

Very interesting casting! Benjamin Walker is a good choice.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#21

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

[Jordan Catalano]

Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#22

Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:35pm

Robbie, that's BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!

[little_sally]

Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#23

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.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF#24

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.

:)