Broadway Revival of Our Town?- Page 2

[ColorTheHours048]

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

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

[Dylan Smith4]

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!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/27/23 at 10:31am

Wonder if Kenny made a call to his pal Denzel about returning to the stage. 

[sinister teashop]

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

[Jarethan]

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.

[Sutton Ross]

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. 

[Jordan Catalano]

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. 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

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.

[everythingtaboo]

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.

[chrishuyen]

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.”

[BETTY22]

Posted: 10/27/23 at 4:56pm

This is exciting.......

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 2/5/24 at 11:23am

Audition notice:

https://www.playbill.com/job/our-town-broadway-equity-video-submissios-deadline-02-14-24/c9a7b508-84bb-4b33-8475-6e0ed0b683c7

[Robbie2]

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

[Broadway Flash]

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

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

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

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

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

[willep]

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.

[WldKingdomHM]

Posted: 4/3/24 at 10:44am

Jim is so wrong for the Stage Manager. They couldn’t find anyone else ?

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

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.

[bwaydreamer]

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.

[CurtainsUpat8]

Posted: 4/3/24 at 11:31am

Richard Thomas is in the cast. He would be an amazing Stage Manager.

[PipingHotPiccolo]

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. 

[gibsons2]

Posted: 4/3/24 at 11:40am

Any pre-sale codes anyone's aware of? 

[Kad]

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. 

[The Distinctive Baritone]

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.