Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Final performance of The Heiress canceled
lenstersf
Stand-by Joined: 6/14/12
#1Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Posted: 1/24/13 at 5:17pmHad tickets to The Heiress on closing night (Feb. 10), but just got an email from Telecharge stating that the performance is canceled. Any one know why??
#2Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Posted: 1/24/13 at 5:21pm
Dan Stevens didn't want to do it anymore. 
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#2Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Posted: 1/24/13 at 5:23pmSolidarity with Barry Manilow.
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#4Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Posted: 1/24/13 at 5:36pmJessica Chastain is probably taking a red-eye to London following the Saturday evening performance. The BAFTAs are Sunday evening 2/10.
#5Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Posted: 1/24/13 at 6:45pmI'm guessing it's the BAFTAS too. She's on a roll this award season and that's a biggie.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
#6Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Posted: 1/24/13 at 7:00pmDan Stevens will probably be on that plane with her. He wants the hell out.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#7Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Posted: 1/24/13 at 7:12pmHow do you know he "wants the hell out"?
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#8Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Posted: 1/24/13 at 8:37pmShe heard Betty Buckley can't hack it in Dear World and they may need a star replacement.
#9Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Posted: 1/24/13 at 9:02pmThis is not surprising to me whatsoever. She has been campaigning her ass off this awards season, and if she does win, it would be the last stop before an Oscar win.
theatreguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/31/03
#10Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Posted: 1/24/13 at 9:42pmThey've also bumped up the Saturday evening (and now, final) performance to 7pm so Chastain can get to the airport in time.
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#11Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Posted: 1/24/13 at 10:22pm
The last commercial red eye out of JFK to London departs at 10:30 p.m., so my guess is Sony Pictures (which owns Columbia, the film's distributor) is flying her to London on one of their corporate jets. With flight time and time difference she will land in London appx. 12 hours after departure from NYC.
Updated On: 1/25/13 at 10:22 PM
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#12Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Posted: 1/25/13 at 10:58amI think the very funny reference to Dan Stevens is parodying his decision not to continue with DOWNTON ABBEY beyond this season. I like his work very much and thought he did a respectable if not brilliant job in THE HEIRESS. I hope he has something wonderful to move on to.
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#13Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Posted: 1/25/13 at 11:09amI'm not surprised they rescheduled the final performance. The lead producer is Paula Wagner who is a BIG TIME film producer and probably wants to keep Jessica Chastain in her good graces for any future film roles. Her producing partner is Tom Cruise so I think we can expect a future film starring Cruise and Chastain.
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#14Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Posted: 1/25/13 at 1:46pmCruise and Chastain - please, no. He needs her more than she needs him at this point, with the bomb of JACK REACHER (or whatever it was called) fresh in everyone's mind.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#15Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Posted: 1/25/13 at 8:21pm
She's going to win the Oscar for a (to my thinking) one-note performance (Javert as protagonist) in a film in which the best female performance is actually Jennifer Ehle, in a brilliant, unrecognized "supporting" turn. Ehle's exit from the film leaves an emotional hole. Early. I like Chastain, a lot, but ZERO DARK THIRTY is hardly a great showcase for what she offers. I think her recognition for this film is odd.
#16Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Posted: 1/25/13 at 9:00pm
Wesley Morris said it best that Chastain embodies the "mono-mania" of the film. You play somebody dedicated to one thing with limited characterization beyond that obsession. The script asked for that and I thought it was delivered. Plus it appears Maya was based on a real person and judging from the Washington Post article on the unnamed CIA woman, it seems to be an accurate depiction of her work life.
There is also the fact Chastain has emerged out of nowhere the last 2 years and is a nice story while the category itself is not very strong. Also the fact the character is a pretty rare non-sexualized woman in a male-dominated setting. I want to avoid the 'strong female character' description since I also think the character is flawed (not in terms of writng or acting but just as a person which actually made me respect the film more) but of the varied reads of the film that has come up a lot.
Jason Clarke, Ehle, Greig Fraser's cinematography, Desplat's score, the production design team that recreated the compound that went unnoticed by everybody, and obviously Bigelow should have been nominated. Those works and performances gaining no traction is partly a mystery that is so typical in awards season while other 'snubs' clearly were victims of the whispering campaign against the film. Chastain and the editing of the film probably have the strongest chance to take home awards Oscar night.
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#17Final performance of The Heiress canceled
Posted: 1/25/13 at 9:27pmI totally concur that Ehle created an amazingly strong and touching character in an otherwise by-the-book piece of film making.
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