Coast of Utopia Casting...

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 5:54pm

we know 3 of the 4 leads, but who is going to round it out?

alexander herzen - brian f o'byrne
michael bakunin - ethan hawke
vissarion belinsky - billy crudup
ivan turgenev - ????????


i also just want to restate what an excellent cast this is so far. anyway, opinions or knowledge...?
Updated On: 7/11/06 at 05:54 PM

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/11/06 at 9:09pm

bump

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 11:36am

bump... noone?

[mabel]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 11:42am

Is it Josh Hamilton?? I know he's in the cast, but I forget who he's playing (I remember David Harbour was playing "various roles").

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 11:48am

no. that's what i thought at first too, but he's playing the poet, nicholas ogarev, not turgenev... i just don't know...

[gustof777]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 1:20pm

don't know either but i can't wait to see Billy Crudup onstage again!

[apdarcey]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 4:20pm

truly. and what seems to be a great role for him. i'm very excited for this production, but am wary of the marathon days...

[lucyjessie]

Posted: 7/12/06 at 9:00pm

I agree--it could either be really great to see all three parts so close together, or they could be completely exhausted by the end of it.

[queendork]

Posted: 7/28/06 at 11:18pm

Jason Butler Harner will play Ivan Turgenev.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 7/28/06 at 11:48pm

From Playbill a few days ago:

"Amy Irving and Jason Butler Harner have joined the cast of the fall 2006 U.S. debut of Tom Stoppard's ambitious three-part play known as The Coast of Utopia, Lincoln Center Theater confirmed.

Jason Butler Harner will play the novelist Ivan Turgenev ("Fathers and Sons"). Harner has been a constant presence on the New York stage in the past two seasons, appearing in The Paris Letter, Hedda Gabler, The Ruby Sunrise and Orange Flower Water.

Amy Irving will play two characters in different parts of the play, Varvara Bakunin (the mother of Ethan Hawke’s character, Michael Bakunin) and Maria Ogarev (the estranged wife of Josh Hamiton’s character, the poet Nicholas Ogarev). She was recently seen Off-Broadway in A Safe Harbour for Elizabeth Bishop.

As previously reported, the cast features Billy Crudup, Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, David Harbour, Ethan Hawke, Martha Plimpton and Brían F. O'Byrne. Easton won a Tony Award for his performance in 2001's The Invention of Love. Ehle won her Tony for the 2000 revival of The Real Thing. And, Crudup first made his mark as part of the 1995 Lincoln Center Theater U.S. premiere of Stoppard's Arcadia.

Plimpton and O'Byrne were recently in the Broadway cast of Conor McPherson's Shining City. Hamilton most recently acted on the New York stage in Hurlyburly, which also featured Hawke, whose credits also include the LCT production of Henry IV (where he co-starred with Easton). Harbour won a Tony Award nomination for the recent Broadway revival of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

In Utopia, O'Byrne will play the mid-19th century Russia radical theorist and editor, Alexander Herzen. Stephen Dillane essayed the part in London. Crudup will play literary critic Vissarion Belinsky. Hawke is the aristocrat-turned-anarchist Michael Bakunin and Hamilton will be the poet Nicholas Ogarev. Easton, Ehle, Harbour and Plimpton will be featured in multiple roles throughout the three-part work."


http://www.playbill.com/news/article/101048.html