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Posted: 11/17/05 at 11:15am
From Foxnews.com:
'Designing' May Be Broadway Bound
Thursday, November 17, 2005
By Roger Friedman
TV's 'Designing Women' May Be Broadway Bound
It's just a rumor, but it's pretty solid all the same.
I hear that Linda Bloodworth-Thomason is hard at work updating her hit TV series, "Designing Women," for Broadway.
And that's not all. The original cast — Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, Annie Potts and Jean Smart — are said to have signed on to recreate their TV roles.
Burke was on Broadway recently in "Steel Magnolias," and Carter has been a regular on the cabaret circuit for some time.
The word is that producers Anita Waxman and Elizabeth McCann, two of Broadway's most venerable and successful "designing women," will put the show on the boards beginning next summer.
So what will the play be about? For one thing, sources tell me that Bloodworth-Thomason has updated it in real time, so the women will have aged the 15 years that it's been since they were last on the air.
But the play will also be topical, with room left for changes week-by-week, depending on the news of the day.
If this works — and it seems like a lock to do just that — my guess is we will soon see plays based on shows like "The Golden Girls," "Soap," "All in the Family" and other television classics. The audience is certainly built in, and people know what they're getting up front.
It's all good fun, but it does kind of make you wonder how fast Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill are spinning in their graves.
'Designing' May Be Broadway Bound
Thursday, November 17, 2005
By Roger Friedman
TV's 'Designing Women' May Be Broadway Bound
It's just a rumor, but it's pretty solid all the same.
I hear that Linda Bloodworth-Thomason is hard at work updating her hit TV series, "Designing Women," for Broadway.
And that's not all. The original cast — Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, Annie Potts and Jean Smart — are said to have signed on to recreate their TV roles.
Burke was on Broadway recently in "Steel Magnolias," and Carter has been a regular on the cabaret circuit for some time.
The word is that producers Anita Waxman and Elizabeth McCann, two of Broadway's most venerable and successful "designing women," will put the show on the boards beginning next summer.
So what will the play be about? For one thing, sources tell me that Bloodworth-Thomason has updated it in real time, so the women will have aged the 15 years that it's been since they were last on the air.
But the play will also be topical, with room left for changes week-by-week, depending on the news of the day.
If this works — and it seems like a lock to do just that — my guess is we will soon see plays based on shows like "The Golden Girls," "Soap," "All in the Family" and other television classics. The audience is certainly built in, and people know what they're getting up front.
It's all good fun, but it does kind of make you wonder how fast Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill are spinning in their graves.
