Cymbeline to star Cerveris, Cullum, Rashad, and Plimpton!!!!

[bjh2114]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 8:38pm

WHAT A CAST!!! This is going to be AWESOME!

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/110285.html

[little_sally]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 8:45pm

Wow! Just wow! Yet another show to see this season.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 8:48pm

Too bad there isn't the possibility of an extension (due to "South Pacific" starting in The Beaumont so soon after.)

[being.jeremiah]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 8:52pm

This is something refreshing. GOONIES!

[ahmelie]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:03pm

Wow, that's one hell of a cast.

Cymbeline is still one of Shakespeare's worst.

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:08pm

AHHHH!!! *Jumps up and down with unbridled Excitement!*

[bjh2114]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:25pm

Ahmelie, you really think so? I love Cymbeline.

[little_sally]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:27pm

Still, Shakespeare's worst is still better than some's best.

[Bwayfan4]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:45pm

How random is Phylicia Rashad? (At least to me...) The others I can understand...but Clair Huxtable? Huh?

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:48pm

I love Cymbelline.

Iachimo's line, on how Posthumus' mistress' honor could be compromised:

"You may wear her in title yours, but you know that strange fowl light upon neighbors' ponds".

I love it when Shakespeare talks dirty.

Personally, though, I'd rather see Cerveris as Iachimo than Posthumus.


Updated On: 8/13/07 at 09:48 PM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 10:18pm

How random is Phylicia Rashad? (At least to me...) The others I can understand...but Clair Huxtable? Huh?

You obviously never saw her Tony Award winning performance in RAISIN IN THE SUN.

That said, my problem with Rashad is that she has given the exact same performance that she gave in RAISIN in the two shows she did following (GEM OF THE OCEAN, BERNARDA ALBA).

It was the exact same characterization that made her RAISIN performance so unique. I'm assuming we'll see more of the same again here. That same voice, those inflections.

Updated On: 8/13/07 at 10:18 PM

[broadwaybaby086]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 10:51pm

I. Am. There.

[Not Barker, Todd.]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 10:57pm

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 11:04pm

Does Martha Plimpton just pay rent there?

Seriouly though, an exciting cast.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 11:07pm

For some reason, I strongly dislike Shakespeare's language in Cymbeline, but I love him elsewhere. Anyway, the plot is wonderful, if you can figure it out!

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 11:10pm

What's to figure out? It's Othello without the tragedy and the Moor.

[erinrebecca]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 11:16pm

Exciting casting, with the exception of Rashad.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 11:17pm

It's tough to figure out when reading it due to Shakespeare's strange, uncharacteristically odd language. I'm sure seeing it performed would be fine.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 11:29pm

Honest, I don't get that it's harder to follow than other Shakespeare plays, and I just reread it. I always have understood Shakespeare better when reading it than seeing it performed.

Maybe try the Pelican version? It offers footnotes.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 11:36pm

In addition to Cymbeine, I have read Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and The Taming of the Shrew. I was able to understand and follow all of those perfecly fine. For some reason, Cymbeline just was considerably more difficult to understand (for me) than the others. It was actually the only book for which I NEEDED to read summaries to understand what was going on.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 11:41pm

Okay. I get it. Maybe it's just that I've done an awful lot of Shakespeare. I did have to refer to the footnotes more frequently than I'm accustomned to.

There's no question that Cymbeline one of his lesser plays.

A starter play, maybe.

[Tkt2Ride]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 12:34am

I would like to see this Play. I like this story for some odd reason? I would be happy to see this or a few of the lesser performed Plays where I live. That cast sounds very good! I have to go re-read it but as much as I like, As You Like and Midsummer Night,(which is what we get) I really want to see something new and challenging.

I hope it goes well and look forward to reviews!!

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 12:42am

God that's good.

Best verbal birthday present I've ever received.

[keen on kean]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 12:50pm

If there was ever a cast to make me want to see Cymbeline, this is it!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 1:01pm

i wanna see!!!!!