Broadway Revival of Our Town?

[ilovebroadway23]

Posted: 10/6/23 at 6:15pm

Is a revival of Our Town heading to Broadway in 2024?

http://www.ourtownbroadway.com/

Don't remember seeing an announcement for this.

[The Other One]

Posted: 10/6/23 at 6:17pm

There was talk about it a while back.  I believe it is to star Dustin Hoffman as the Stage Manager.

[Robbie516]

Posted: 10/6/23 at 7:02pm

No way this is the same Hoffman production it is being directed my Leon and Sher was going to direct Hoffman production…I bet this is going into the Golden after Shark and I wonder who they have for the iconic manager…maybe Denzel?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/6/23 at 7:11pm

Iiiiiiiiinteresting. I clicked the link and signed up for their email list and it said I had already signed up for it. The last I heard of an “Our Town” revival was the Hoffman one so maybe this is the same production team?

[Robbie516]

Posted: 10/6/23 at 7:13pm

Also Dustin is 86…I think it would be amazing if this is the same production 

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/6/23 at 7:18pm

Really just hoping whoever does it that they just “do the play”. Don’t try to update it or add new things,  just trust the script. It’s one of, if not the, greatest American play ever written. Trust it in its perfection. 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 10/6/23 at 7:31pm

Hm. Not sure I’ve liked any of Leon’s directing but curious who they’ve got. 

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 10/6/23 at 9:36pm

Robbie516 said: "No way this is the same Hoffman production it is being directed my Leon and Sher was going to direct Hoffman production…I bet this is going into the Golden after Shark and I wonder who they have for the iconic manager…maybe Denzel?"

For Kenny Leon, I could think of someone like Norm Lewis, who worked with him recently on the tour of A Soldier's Play.

[Robbie516]

Posted: 10/6/23 at 10:32pm

Good notice that the OP writer joined today…this must either be from the producers or a fake like Square one was though I do think this is real seems way to legit for it not to be…

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/6/23 at 10:48pm

Yeah but still confused how I’m already on their mailing list for this production. 

[Robbie516]

Posted: 10/6/23 at 11:17pm

Jordan Catalano said: "Yeah but still confused how I’m already on their mailing list for this production."

Did the Hoffman production put up a website?

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 10/6/23 at 11:19pm

Jordan Catalano said: "Yeah but still confused how I’m already on their mailing list for this production."

probably just a generic mailing list related to that organization. or there was some fine print on a previous email signup where they can add your name to show email list.

the Hoffman production would be an entirely different entity.

[Theatrefanboy1]

Posted: 10/6/23 at 11:34pm

If not Dustin Hoffman.  I’m hoping some another legend - Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson,Donald Sutherland, Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino 

[sinister teashop]

Posted: 10/7/23 at 12:10am

Jordan Catalano said: "Really just hoping whoever does it that they just “do the play”. Don’t try to update it or add new things, just trust the script. It’s one of, if not the, greatest American play ever written. Trust it in its perfection."

I've never seen a production that seriously deviates from Thorton Wilder's stage directions. Even David Cromer's radically intimate production was a traditional interpretation of the text except for the few short moments of its ending.  "Our Town" could use a few productions that look at the work from different angles and through different lenses. But I don't think that that is what a Kenny Leon production of "Our Town" would be though.

Updated On: 10/7/23 at 12:10 AM

[two ladies tickets]

Posted: 10/7/23 at 11:29am

Jordan Catalano said: "Really just hoping whoever does it that they just “do the play”. Don’t try to update it or add new things, just trust the script. It’s one of, if not the, greatest American play ever written. Trust it in its perfection."

I agree. A lot of people don't realize there are actually several versions of the script. For instance there is the original version that Wilder wrote in the 1930s and there is an official published version that he approved in the 1950s. There are massive differences in the dialogue between these two versions. If you go on YouTube and you watch the Lincoln Center production from the late 1980s with Spaulding Gray as the stage manager and then if you watch the 2002 production with Paul Newman as the stage manager you can see the differences in the dialogue. A good production would benefit from a dramaturge or literary expert researching all the variations of the scripts and coming up with a cohesive version closest to what Wilder actually intended.

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 10/7/23 at 11:34am

two ladies tickets said: "Jordan Catalano said: "Really just hoping whoever does it that they just “do the play”. Don’t try to update it or add new things, just trust the script. It’s one of, if not the, greatest American play ever written. Trust it in its perfection."

I agree. A lot of people don't realize there are actually several versions of the script. For instance there is the original version that Wilder wrote in the 1930s and there is an official published version that he approved in the 1950s. There are massive differences in the dialogue between these two versions. If you go on YouTube and you watch the Lincoln Center production from the late 1980s with Spaulding Gray as the stage manager and then if you watch the 2002 production with Paul Newman as the stage manager you can see the differences in the dialogue. A good production would benefit from a dramaturge or literary expert researching all the variations of the scripts and coming up with a cohesive version closest to what Wilder actually intended."

Concord Theatricals also has a multilingual version of the show incorporating Spanish and Creole that was first produced in 2017.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 10/7/23 at 11:57am

Kenny Leon's direction never "does it" for me... Outside of American Son, everything else of his I've seen has left me totally indifferent and cold.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 10/7/23 at 12:50pm

The domain name was just registered two days ago.

https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=ourtownbroadway.com

[Robbie516]

Posted: 10/7/23 at 7:05pm

They must have a big name for this…the only way this has a chance is if it does..

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/7/23 at 7:40pm

Hopefully there will be an announcement the beginning of the week, if they’re coming on here now to advertise it’s existence. 

[Robbie516]

Posted: 10/7/23 at 9:05pm

Just a thought… maybe this is what Billy Crudup is doing?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/7/23 at 9:09pm

Would love that. And it just made me think how great Claire Danes would have been as Emily, once upon a time. 

[Jarethan]

Posted: 10/8/23 at 10:05am

Robbie516 said: "Just a thought… maybe this is what Billy Crudup is doing?"

I think Crudup would be great for this and I like the idea that he's younger than a lot of people cast as the stage manager.

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 10/27/23 at 9:34am

https://www.playbill.com/article/kenny-leon-to-helm-broadway-our-town-revival

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 10/27/23 at 9:46am

Great news! I love Our Town. It has never failed to make me sob.