David Alan Grier Joins Mamet's RACE

[somethingwicked]

David Alan Grier Joins Mamet's RACE#1

Posted: 7/28/09 at 5:57pm

"Tony Award nominee David Alan Grier, of TV's 'Chocolate News' and 'In Living Color,' has joined the cast of the Broadway world premiere of David Mamet's Race, the producers announced on July 28. Pulitzer Prize winner Mamet will make his Broadway directing debut with the play, the plot details of which have not been officially announced. Hint: It's about racial tension.

The New York Times broke this latest piece of casting. Race begins Nov. 17 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Grier (a Tony nominee for Broadway's The First) will join a company that already includes Kerry Washington ('The Last King of Scotland,' 'Ray,' making her Broadway debut) and Emmy Award winners Richard Thomas ('The Waltons') and James Spader ('Boston Legal,' 'sex, lies and videotape'). Grier, a Yale School of Drama grad, also appeared in Broadway's Dreamgirls and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

From the author of American Buffalo, Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow, November and The Cryptogram, Race (the play's topic is the title) will officially open on Broadway Dec. 6..."

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/131530

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

Updated On: 7/28/09 at 05:57 PM

[somethingwicked]

re: David Alan Grier Joins Mamet's RACE#2

Posted: 7/28/09 at 8:42pm

bump

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

[Morgaine885]

re: David Alan Grier Joins Mamet's RACE#2

Posted: 7/29/09 at 11:47am

Does he complete the cast?

[mybigsplash]

re: David Alan Grier Joins Mamet's RACE#3

Posted: 7/29/09 at 12:48pm

This is such a strange way to do a play. They won't release any details of the plot, and they won't say how big it is, or how many characters. Not even the investors know! Now They just say "David Alan Grier is in it, and it "The New Mamet" and Mamet is directing it. I wonder what all the secrecy is about??? It must have some extreme content that they're worried about, or afraid its not good enough.

Stephen: "Could you grab me a coffee?" Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"

[frogs_fan85]

re: David Alan Grier Joins Mamet's RACE#4

Posted: 7/29/09 at 12:54pm

It's just a marketing convention to build up a mystique.