Cerveris, Bryggman & Marshall-Green Join Public's King Lear; Sondheim to Pen Score

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 7:50pm

Tony winner Michael Cerveris will play Kent, with Larry Bryggman as Gloucester and Logan Marshall-Green as Edmund alongside previously announced star Kevin Kline in the upcoming James Lapine-helmed mounting of King Lear at the Public Theater. It has also been announced that frequent Lapine collaborator Stephen Sondheim and Michael Starobin will compose an original score for the oft-produced Shakespeare classic.

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http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=542437

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 7:51pm

Gotta get tickets to that immediately.

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 7:59pm

Sondheim is collaborating with someone on the score?

Hmmm...anyone have any info on that?

[WellIfYouInsist]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 8:02pm

I do.


He's old.

[Revolutionary]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 8:05pm

February 9- March 18? Oh f*ck.

Sounds fabulous though. Guess I need to find someone to place a cardboard cutout of me in one of the seats again.

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 8:12pm

Interesting. Wish I could see this.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 8:18pm

As do I. This sounds like a heavenly production. I love Shakespeare.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 8:20pm

Kline, Cerveris, Sondheim, and Shakespeare?!?

I'm sold!

[MarkCohen]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 8:38pm

This sounds absolutely amazing.

[Johnnytoc]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 9:17pm

Stupid school being in PA. :-/
This sounds amazing.

[AC126748]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 9:32pm

I'm going to eat $60 and buy tickets on Sunday.

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 9:40pm

I wish its run wasn't so short.

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 9:49pm

New York in February is looking pretty good right about now. I am SO there!

[colored by esteem]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 9:50pm

frogs_fan85:

I second that emotion!

[lucydee]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 9:53pm

Hey Revolutionary,
I will volunteer to put that
paper cut-out of you next to
me when I go

I am buying my tickets Sunday.
How exciting!

[AtLeastIveBeenThere]

Posted: 1/4/07 at 11:57pm

I am SO there.

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 12:07am

YAY! I can't wait for Heidi Ettinger to return to Broadway. She was a big inspiration to me as a kid wanting to be a Set Designer.

Akiva

[BodyBeautifulBeale]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 12:12am

I am oddly excited about this...

[Revolutionary]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 12:32am

Yay! I knew I could count on you.

I'm comin for you Michael, lol...

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 12:49am

Logan Marshall-Green. HOT!

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 12:59am

Any nudity involved?

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 1:36am

Well, Brent Carver (as Edgar) spent a large part of the recent Christopher Plummer Lear revival wearing only a loin cloth and I can recall another production where the Fool was fairly scantily clad, so I suppose nudity (or near nudity) might be possible.

[musicalkid]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 7:50am

as much as it's cool that Sondheim is writing something new, why not a musical?!

anyone knows of any upcoming anything else by Sondheim?

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 9:32am

I'm not sure about Logan Marshall Green in the pivotal role of Edmund, but damn this looks incredible, I'm gon' BE there!

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 1/5/07 at 12:00pm

Logan Marshall-Green is a fine actor (and I'm not just talking about his looks). He tackles drama and comedy very well.

The title is escaping me, but he was fantastic in a play a few years ago about a group of struggling teens.