CYRANO on Great Performances

[LimelightMike]

CYRANO on Great Performances#1

Posted: 10/28/08 at 9:36pm

Hey All -

Just wondering if anyone had information as to WHEN PBS plans to broadcast and/or release the DVD of Kevin Kline's masterful performance in CYRANO de BERGERAC from last season? I remember rumblings of "sometime in January '09" - I haven't heard anything since. Anyone know anything?

Best,
- Mike

[wicked_beast4]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances#2

Posted: 10/28/08 at 9:40pm

I was wondering about this as well. I hope someone knows!

"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable." -F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise

[NGD2225]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances#2

Posted: 10/28/08 at 9:43pm

My french teacher wants to know when the DVD comes out.

[Dollypop]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances#3

Posted: 10/28/08 at 10:17pm

It's a safe bet that CYRANO will air during the PBS fund drive in December.

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[JbaraFan1]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances#4

Posted: 10/29/08 at 3:55am

Updated On: 6/13/09 at 03:55 AM

[LimelightMike]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #5

Posted: 11/26/08 at 3:57am

Bumping with a bit of an update.

I was scrounging about Amazon, piecing together the last of my Christmas wishlist, when all of the sudden, I stumbled upon CYRANO (w/ Kevin Kline) on DVD.

Here's the scoop!

I don't know how to get the cover image up on here...
Any help appreciated. Anyone wanna just put it up here, that's fine and dandy with me. I think it looks great!

Product Details
Actors: Kevin Kline, Jennifer Garner
Directors: David Leveaux
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Number of discs: 1
Rating: N/A
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Release Date: January 6, 2009
Run Time: 141 minutes
ASIN: B001HB1JZQ

Needless to say, yours truly is VERY, VERY much excited for this. More-so than COMPANY's release. Kline's my all-time hero, and well, I can't wait! Anyone have an inkling as to when it'll be broadcast? Is it possible to be broadcast that same evening (Tuesday, the 6th)? Thoughts?

The floor, my friends, if yours...





Updated On: 11/26/08 at 03:57 AM

[rosscoe(au)]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #6

Posted: 11/26/08 at 5:47am

Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist. Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino. This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more. Tazber's: Reply to Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian

[Yankeefan007]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #7

Posted: 11/26/08 at 8:09am

Orgasmic.

[TimesSquareRegular]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #8

Posted: 11/26/08 at 9:33am

Wow - an instant purchase for me!

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[LuPonatic]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #9

Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:22am

I will definitely be getting this one!

[gilvisto]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #10

Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:31am

Thank you guys so much for posting! Cyrano has been my favorite play since I was "forced" to read it for English my sophomore year of high school. I was very disappointed I couldn't see it in NY, but this makes it all better!

It's not impossible...

[Dollypop]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #11

Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:40am

Judging from the cover art, this is a filmed version of the stage presentation and not a real "movie". Interesting. On stage Kline made his entrance swinging onto the stage from an audience box. I wonder if that will be retained in this version.

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[Yankeefan007]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #12

Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:46am

This was ALWAYS a filmed version of the stage production.

[gilvisto]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #13

Posted: 11/26/08 at 11:26am

I'm going nuts here looking for a broadcast date... anyone have any leads?

It's not impossible...

[Pianolin717]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #14

Posted: 11/26/08 at 11:39am

no leads :/
i checked the website and they had nothing :/
SHAME!
i never saw this, but just from the cover i cannot WAIT to see it :)
it looks birlliant

[LimelightMike]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #15

Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:04pm

...and it WAS!

I cannot say enough about this performance.

The most enthralling piece of theatre of 2007, for me, anyway.

[LimelightMike]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #16

Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:17pm

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BaNA6Pz_J3I

[Yankeefan007]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #17

Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:26pm

It was a beautiful production.

[LimelightMike]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #18

Posted: 11/27/08 at 8:54pm

"B" is for 'Bump'.

[CapnHook]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #19

Posted: 11/27/08 at 9:58pm

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[BustopherPhantom]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #20

Posted: 11/27/08 at 10:04pm

Just watched that clip.

Jennifer Gardner is so beautiful. I just wish her performance wasn't so overripe-Masterpiece-Theater-esque.

Kevin Kline. Is. He just is. Awesome.

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

[LimelightMike]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #21

Posted: 11/27/08 at 11:27pm

Amen.

[erinrebecca]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #22

Posted: 11/27/08 at 11:39pm

*Garner*, not Gardner.

I loved this production. Truly loved it. Can't wait to own the dvd and enjoy it yet again.

[TheatreFreak05]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #23

Posted: 11/28/08 at 2:47am

Yes! I am so excited!
I saw a production of Cyrano a couple years ago and have loved it ever since.
I can't wait to see it :)

[gilvisto]

re: CYRANO on Great Performances #24

Posted: 1/3/09 at 11:43am

Hey there ya'll. I have had my copy on pre-order on Amazon since it was posted, but I had to change my address (back to school time) and I noticed the item description page

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001HB1JZQ

doesn't list Garner or Kline... anyone know why?

It's not impossible...