#26
Posted: 10/27/23 at 9:46am
Great news! I love Our Town. It has never failed to make me sob.
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#27
Posted: 10/27/23 at 10:14am
Excited to see this classic return to the Broadway stage! My university did a production of it last year and was just spectacular!
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. -Harold Prince
#28
Posted: 10/27/23 at 10:31am
Wonder if Kenny made a call to his pal Denzel about returning to the stage.
#29
Posted: 10/27/23 at 10:53am
So much ballyhoo for a show without an announced cast! Who is doing PR for this show and how can I hire them?
On the other hand, if the casting reveal turns out to be anyone other than Jesus I will be disappointed.
Updated On: 10/27/23 at 10:53 AM
#30
Posted: 10/27/23 at 11:01am
Jordan Catalano said: "Wonder if Kenny made a call to his pal Denzel about returning to the stage."
I was thinking exactly the same thing. How to insure that the next revival of Our Town works? Cast Denzel Washington as the stage manager.
#31
Posted: 10/27/23 at 11:17am
Wow, this is great. Kenny is a wonderful director and this will definitely be the most diverse Our Town in its history. Love.
#32
Posted: 10/27/23 at 11:20am
As I’ve said before, it’s the best play ever written but everyone’s seen it a hundred times so they’ll absolutely need a STAR to sell those tickets. And Denzel is just that star.
But if it’s not Denzel, my dream has actually always been to see (or even just hear) Morgan Freeman in that role, too.
#33
Posted: 10/27/23 at 11:34am
It would need a massive star and it's very weird that it wouldn't be announced with the star attached, instead of a director and list of co-producers. Unless this is a desperate plea to agents that "look, the production is real, we have co-producers and announced it!"
But as has been said before, this producer announces a lot of stuff that never materializes. So we should take with the smallest grain of salt.
#34
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
Posted: 10/27/23 at 1:31pm
Since Broadway rarely lets other directors beside Leon handle such projects, I expect a star-studded black cast.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
#35
Posted: 10/27/23 at 3:14pm
In the New York Times article, Leon is quoted:
“The cast will not be all Black and it will not be all white and it will not be all famous,” he said. “I want all of us to feel included, and I want the play to speak to each and every heart in America.”
#37
Posted: 2/5/24 at 11:23am
#38
Posted: 2/5/24 at 8:01pm
chrishuyen said: "In the New York Times article, Leon is quoted:
“The cast will not be all Black and it will not be all white and it will not be all famous,” he said. “I want all of us to feel included, and I want the play to speak to each and every heart in America.”"
glad he's mixing things up and not going all one way on this one
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
#39
Posted: 2/5/24 at 8:07pm
I hope he actually does mix it up and give us something different. There’s no point in doing this play if you’re just doing the play. Everyone has seen it. But I feel like Kenny usually sticks to the script. Boring
#40
Posted: 4/3/24 at 9:08am
Casting:
- Jim Parsons as “Stage Manager”
- Zoey Deutch as “Emily Webb”
- Katie Holmes as “Mrs. Webb”
- Billy Eugene Jones as “Dr. Gibbs”
- Ephraim Sykes as “George Gibbs”
- Richard Thomas as “Mr. Webb”
- Michelle Wilson as “Mrs. Gibbs”
- Julie Halston as “Mrs. Soames”
- Donald Webber Jr. as “Simon Stimpson”
as well as Ephie Aardema, Heather Ayers, Willa Bost, Bobby Daye, Safiya Kaijya Harris, Doron JéPaul, Shyla Lefner, Anthony Michael Lopez, John McGinty, Bryonha Marie, Kevyn Morrow, Hagan Oliveras, Noah Pyzik, Sky Smith, Bill Timoney, Matthew Elijah Webb and Nimene Sierra Wureh. The final two cast members will be announced at a later date.
Our Town will begin previews on Tuesday, September 17 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
Updated On: 4/3/24 at 09:08 AM
#41
Posted: 4/3/24 at 9:15am
This is some real 10th-choice casting across the board :)
Jim Parsons doing 2 Broadway shows in the span of 6 months is overexposure for someone of his stature. A 25+ year age gap between the Webb parents is also a choice... Katie Holmes has never wowed anyone as a stage actress, though Mrs. Webb also isn't a very heavy lift.
Yay Julie Halston I guess?
A lot of singers in that cast & ensemble so maybe they're adding some music in addition to Blessed Be the Tie That Binds?
Updated On: 4/3/24 at 09:15 AM
#42
Posted: 4/3/24 at 9:19am
Well that’s an overall…disappointing cast. I thought for sure we’d get a person of color in there as Stage Manager with Kenny Leon directing. Parsons is just an odd choice all around.
#43
Posted: 4/3/24 at 10:44am
Jim is so wrong for the Stage Manager. They couldn’t find anyone else ?
#44
Posted: 4/3/24 at 10:52am
Jim has the folksy thing that the Stage Manager sometimes has, but that could become incredibly grating after hour one...and then there's two hours to go.
#45
Posted: 4/3/24 at 11:16am
One of my favorite plays ever...with one of the worst casts I've seen in years. Jim Parsons really?? Is anyone asking for this? He does one thing and even that he doesn't do well. He and Katie Holmes need to stop asking for stage roles, they are not good on stage. Let real actors play these parts.
Oh well, we will always have David Cromer's Barrow Street Theatre production.
#46
Posted: 4/3/24 at 11:31am
Richard Thomas is in the cast. He would be an amazing Stage Manager.
#47
Posted: 4/3/24 at 11:32am
yall are horrible. a major television star keeps showing up to do theater and thats.... a bad thing.
maybe his performance disappoints, we shall see, but the umbrage at his being cast at all is just hilarious.
#49
Posted: 4/3/24 at 11:52am
Leon certainly has a big season between this and Othello. I admit to finding his direction to rarely rise above adequate and obvious, though. Perhaps he’ll surprise with these.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#50
Posted: 4/3/24 at 11:54am
I am also baffled by some of this casting. It's almost like they had a meeting and we like, "Who are the most famous film actors that might be willing to do Our Town on Broadway? Call their agents and ask them which role they would want to play." The Stage Manager can be played any number of ways, but I agree that Jim Parsons just seems wrong for this. Also, Ephraim Sykes is 38 years old playing a high schooler? What? I know it's meta-theater and all, but that's pushing it.
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