Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF- Page 2
Benjamin Walker, Ciarán Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
#25Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 12:59pmRobbie, that NEEDS to happen!!!
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#26Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 1:02pm
The MONK will rock Big Mama,
but I agree that as brilliant as this play is,
there is a saturation point.
"sweaty in a wifebeater", I think you have the wrong play,
this is sexy PJs, hopefully just bottoms.
#27Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 1:39pmA Rose Tattoo revival is well overdue. (I seem to recall it being considered at one point as a vehicle for Edie Falco) I could see Hargitay as Serafina. The last revival was pretty ghastly.
"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
#28Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 1:48pmHow short is this run? J&H has the Rodgers in the spring. There is nothing in the announcement about a limited run
#29Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 3:56pm
Already saw Walker wearing nothing but his hands in Les Liaisons, so unless he drops the hands, I see no point in going. His acting certainly doesn't do much for me.
I like Johansson in films, but on stage, she's a film actress. And I imagine most of us can already imitate Monk's performance without having to actually see it.
#30Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 3:58pm
"I'll pass it along to my Roundabout friends at the opening night party for IF THERE IS... tonight.
:)"
BASTARD.
#31Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 4:17pm
I was waiting for that reaction.
I bought a new tie and everything.
#32Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 4:34pmI hope it chokes you.
#33Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 4:36pmSilly Jordan...I keep my top button undone so that I can converse with Jake easily.
#34Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 4:40pmGod, I hate you.
#35Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 4:47pm
He likes it when I call him Jakey. He thinks it's endearing.
Back to topic, Hinds and Monk are going to be magnificent!
#36Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 4:48pm
I told you RIGHT WHERE HE WAS at noon today! You wouldn't have been catching him at work, just one amongst a throng of shouting fans! It was the perfect opportunity for a casual chat! You'd have been 11 hours ahead of Robbie, and sweating next to him on an elliptical, no less!
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#37Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 5:03pmSliding doors, and all. Which Gwyneth are you, Jordan?
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#38Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 5:09pmHinds was terrible in Political Animals most of the reviews i saw called him out on just how terrible he was. I'm from North Carolina the same state his character was from and i couldn't understand a word he said, he botched the accent horribly. I hope it gets better, otherwise the second act will just be terrible because no one will understand him to save their lives.
#39Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 5:24pm
I don't understand the issue with Hinds in Political Animals. I though he was wonderful in it, a very real performance and heartfelt. Weaver was the one that I found wooden in the series.
I am so glad Monk will be returning to the stage this season. She was made for Big Mama.
"I think lying to children is really important, it sets them off on the right track" -Sherie Rene Scott-
#40Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 5:24pmI agree that Hinds was terrible in Political Animals (otherwise, I really quite liked the show for summer teev watching). I did, however, think his performance in the original Broadway cast of Closer was great...I thought the whole cast was great, actually. But since we are talking about the need for an accent similar to the one he botched on Political Animals, fingers are crossed he can pull it off!
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#41Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 5:25pmI can't understand Honey Boo Boo's mom, and I live about two hours from her.
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#42Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 5:32pmYes but in your case, there is a big difference in the North Georgian accent and the south Georgian accent. I mention it because it has been pointed out several times in the internet community in reference to Honey Boo Boo. While NC doesn't have a great disparity in regard to regional accents. Even when we do, none of them sound like Hines did. Honey Boo Boo also has subtitles that political animals does not and were needed for me to understand any of Hinds scenes. That would only get worse in a theater i bet where many already have trouble understanding people.
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#43Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 5:35pm
I understand. I just like "showing off" that I live two hours from Honey Boo Boo.
I don't think I've seen any of Ciaran's work where he did not have his natural accent or just a slight variation of it.
#44Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 5:39pmNot quite 100% on board with Walker, but it's not a bad idea. I love the idea of Ciaran and Debra, though! Sounds increasingly like Broadway might finally get a good revival of this.
#45Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 5:53pm
"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.) "
It didn't get good ratings, so many people probably didn't even see it, but Hinds played a VERY Big Daddy-ish role in the Summer TV series Political Animals.
Walker is exactly the right aghe for Brick as written (and only one or two years different than when Newman played the role on film). People seem to often forget--much like Chance in Sweet Bird of Youth, that he's not really meant to be that old, just at a point where the promise of his youth is starting to fade (which in the 50s would be very late twenties-very early thirties at most). Tommy Lee Jones was too old for the role when he played it in the 80s. And Maggie should be around his age (I believe Scarlett is two years younger at 28 or so).
In the original Kazan production, Ben Gazzara was 25 as Brick, actually, though from the one clip of him bck then he does read a bit older, and Barbara Bel Geddes was in her very early 30s, but reads the same age as him.
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#46Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 5:56pmEh. Walker doesn't strike me as a Brick. He's not masculine, rugged enough, to me. I think he's great, just has that hipster look to him, so I don't see how this will work.
#47Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 5:59pm
"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 do agree there. As Imentioned in the Sweet Bird thread, apparently Diane Lane has been trying--to some extent--to get a Broadway revival with her of Iguana for some time now.
Wasn't Small Craft Warnings (which, IMHO, along with Vieux Carre which had that awful New York modernist production last year--are by far my two fave late era Williams plays) meant to get a New York production last Fall? Whatever happened to that?
Orpheus Descending is perhaps my top WIlliams play ever. Peter Hall did a BRILLIANT production of it in New York in the late 80s with Vanessa Redgrave which was later the basis for a TV movie version. It's only on VHS (but is easy to find online) and is well worth checking out. I'm not sure how I could see it topped, and it is a very hard play to do well.
(Williams actually started his massive feud with William Inge--a playwright he was close friends with and helped get produced on Broadway--because Elia Kazan had been helping Williams shape the writing of Orpheus, the way Kazan helped Williams write all the plays they were involved with including the controversial new last act for Cat that he insisted on, and then at the last minute Kazan declined to direct it, it flopped, and the play Kazan did that season instead, Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, was a huge success).
#48Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 6:01pm
"Hinds was terrible in Political Animals most of the reviews i saw called him out on just how terrible he was. I'm from North Carolina the same state his character was from and i couldn't understand a word he said, he botched the accent horribly."
I reallyliked him in the role, but I know reviewers were very divided. My issue was the role seemed to want a Clinto figure, and he certainly wasn't that--as Ray mentioned he actually played the role very much as Big Daddy.
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#49Benjamin Walker, Ciar?n Hinds, and Debra Monk join Scarlett Johansson in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Posted: 9/20/12 at 6:45pmthat seems to be it you either loved hist take or hated it. That kind of scares me though that someone who has such a terrible southern accent is going to have such a dialogue heavy one where he will have to use it.
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