Denzel/Iceman

Just got my tickets for Iceman- love Denzel- yet rarely find George C. Wolfe directions to be all that engrossing. Now I am having a bit of buyer's remorse. Do you think I should? Is George C. Wolfe really all that bad? He seems to direct stuff that is very slow and boring- and this play has the possibility of being a snooze fest- though I certainly hope not- I just got row 3 in the center for a Monday night.

Yankees02 said: "Someone said it's four hours long though, is that true???"

At BAM, it ran 4 hours and 45 minutes with three intermissions.

http://www.bam.org/theater/2015/the-iceman-cometh

It's a very long play - to put it mildly.
Like most talented directors, Wolfe is someone whose work I sometimes love and sometimes don't.
But the most important thing here is - besides the play itself- is that Washington is an inspired choice for Hickey. It could turn out to be his greatest stage success ever.

It'll be interesting to see who else is cast. Stephen McKinley Henderson has worked with Washington a few times and I think he would be an amazing Larry Slade (the role Brian Dennehey played at BAM).

It's a very, very long play, and Hickey (who, I assume, Denzel Washington is playing), IIRC, does not arrive until the end of the long first act. I think there's only one explicitly African-American character in the play. It'll be interesting to see how Wolfe handles this. 4+ hours listening to drunk losers and their pipe dreams, but the ending, IMHO, is worth it. Check out the OOP DVD with Jason Robards and a very young Robert Redford.

billyelliotfan123 said: "Will this be an all African American cast? Anyone think John Douglass Thompson would join? He was a standout in the BAM production and Rudin was attached to that production"

There's no indication that it will be an all African American cast. I would imagine it will probably be multiracial.

THEATER

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

242 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036

DURATION

3hrs, 50mins

2 Intermissions

Do you think the duration includes the two intermissions- or are the intermissions additional time added to the 3 hours and 50 minutes?

I would not pay to see Denzel Washington nor would I go if I got comps. Still remember the advice he have Wil Smith during the Six Degrees filming. Not worth my time.

My wife and I have tickets for this the night before we see Angels in America, which means we'll be seeing about 13 hours of theater over the course of about 24 total hours. I couldn't be more excited about it. I'm a fan of Wolfe and Washington and O'Neill and I wholly expect to love this.