Estelle Parsons Confirmed for AUGUST: OC National Tour

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 1/21/09 at 12:03pm

She is pure brilliance as Vi, hope she comes to FL with the show.

The national tour of August: Osage County, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play about a dysfunctional Oklahoma family, will star Estelle Parsons as a pill-poppin' grandmother when it launches in Denver in summer 2009.

Academy Award winner Parsons currently plays that monstrous matriarch, Violet, at Broadway's Music Box. The tour launches July 24 at Denver's Ellie Caukins Opera House and plays to Aug. 8 before moving to San Francisco's Curran Theatre Aug. 11-Sept. 6. Subsequent engagements will be announced shortly.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/125442.html

Updated On: 1/21/09 at 12:03 PM

[BroadwayBoy2]

Posted: 1/21/09 at 12:08pm

God love this women!

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 1/21/09 at 12:10pm

hope this comes to DC!!!!

[Morgaine885]

Posted: 1/21/09 at 12:14pm

Pretty impressive for a lady above 80 :)

[uncageg]

Posted: 1/21/09 at 12:23pm

I am so glad they are putting it in the Ellie Caulkins (Where Little Mermaid premiered).

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 1/21/09 at 12:34pm

She deserves a special Tony Award...what an amazing woman.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/21/09 at 12:37pm

I wonder if it will come back to Chicago. I am so mad I missed it.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 1/21/09 at 12:40pm

Seattle is the 3rd stop on the tour. Thrilled to see her!

[Brick]

Posted: 1/21/09 at 12:41pm

Woohoo!

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 1/21/09 at 1:08pm

God love her. There's no one else I would rather see in the role than her. Hope it comes to Providence, even though I'm fully capable of just seeing her in NY.

[jessica0414]

Posted: 1/21/09 at 1:34pm

"I wonder if it will come back to Chicago. I am so mad I missed it."

^ me too!

[broadwayfan7]

Posted: 1/21/09 at 7:04pm

I am so glad for Estelle! I hope the tour comes through St. Louis.

[lakezurich]

Posted: 1/21/09 at 8:57pm

Phyllis Rogers Stone, me too! SO mad I missed it. I REALLY hope it comes back.

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 1/21/09 at 9:58pm

"Pretty impressive for a lady above 80 :)"

She is over 80? Jeez, she is amazing. She is very funny and just wonderful as Vi. I am ready August Osage County (I'm about to close the computer and open my book) and it makes me want to see the show again. I hope I can see it before she leaves.

[jennyish]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 12:06am

She's awesome. And I continue to marvel at her vitality--touring is exhausting.

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 12:24am

Blew my mind on Sunday. I would feel privileged to see it again.

[BobRandomGuyMan]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 12:26am

Yeah, I don't know how she's gonna do a tour either. Isn't she in her 70's? More power to her!

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 12:26am

Oh, Phyllis, I didn't realize you hadn't seen it in Chicago.
I saw Parsons about a week into her run and she was good, but when I saw her again in October she blew me away. Her performance as Violet Weston is just incredibly haunting and fascinating in every way possible. I also loved her chemistry with the three women playing her daughters, especially Amy Morton of course. While I didn't see Dunagan live, I have "seen" her and I prefer Parsons.
I wonder if any members of the OBC will tour with the show, I highly doubt it but it'd be great. Even someone like Kimberly Guerrero would be nice. Of course ideally it'd be the three original Weston sisters.

[bluesoprano]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 1:15am

I'm so excited to see Estelle Parsons in this role again. I saw her last year when I went to New York and thought that she was incredible! Can't wait to see who else will be apart of the show.

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 1:38am

Yes! The theatre gods have answered my prayers! Now all I want is Laurie Metcalf in the role of Barbara and that'd be perfection.

In regards to AUGUST coming back to Chicago,(according to the playbill article),"Chicago's Oriental Theatre will also host the play, Feb. 2-14, 2010".

[choitoy]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 1:39am

I'm so happy that she's doing the tour. Can't wait to see here here in Seattle!

I'm reading the play now, and I can totally imagine her in the role right now, so it would be wonderful to actually see her perform it!

[dramamama611]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 5:16am

Just turned 81 in November!

She was amazing in the role. I saw her back in August. Blown away. I'm seeing this with my students in March (hope the b'way "gods" keep it open!)

I see it again should the tour hit Boston WITH Estelle.

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 7:09am

To people who have seen Deanna (sp?) and Estelle, what do you think? Which one is better?

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 10:47am

They're two tooooootally different Violets.

But my vote is for Estelle. A much more haunting and layered performance which, in the end, leaves a more "under your skin" quality. Deanna is mindblowing as well, but it's not as lasting.

[dg22894]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 4:34pm

Hope it comes to Michigan.