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Estelle Parsons Confirmed for AUGUST: OC National Tour

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

#12

re: Estelle Parsons Confirmed for AUGUST: OC National Tour

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

I am so glad for Estelle! I hope the tour comes through St. Louis.
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#13

re: Estelle Parsons Confirmed for AUGUST: OC National Tour

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

Phyllis Rogers Stone, me too! SO mad I missed it. I REALLY hope it comes back.
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#14

re: Estelle Parsons Confirmed for AUGUST: OC National Tour

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.
#18

re: Estelle Parsons Confirmed for AUGUST: OC National Tour

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.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#19

re: Estelle Parsons Confirmed for AUGUST: OC National Tour

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.
#20

re: Estelle Parsons Confirmed for AUGUST: OC National Tour

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".
#21

re: Estelle Parsons Confirmed for AUGUST: OC National Tour

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!
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re: Estelle Parsons Confirmed for AUGUST: OC National Tour

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.
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#24

re: Estelle Parsons Confirmed for AUGUST: OC National Tour

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.

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