GODOT with Irwin and Lane set for Studio 54; perfs begin 4/10

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GODOT with Irwin and Lane set for Studio 54; perfs begin 4/10

Posted: 10/16/08 at 6:04pm

"Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) has announced Tony® award winners Bill Irwin as “Vladimir” and Nathan Lane as “Estragon” in a new Broadway production of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and directed by Tony award winner Anthony Page.

Waiting for Godot will begin previews on Friday, April 10th, 2009 and open officially on Thursday, April 30th, 2009 at Studio 54 on Broadway (254 West 54th Street). This will be a limited engagement.

Bob Fosse’s DANCIN’ previously announced for May 2009 will now be part of the 2009-2010 Roundabout season."

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re: GODOT with Irwin and Lane set for Studio 54; perfs begin 4/10

Posted: 10/16/08 at 6:12pm

GODOT: YAY!

STUDIO 54: BOO!

DANCIN' IS STILL ON: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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re: GODOT with Irwin and Lane set for Studio 54; perfs begin 4/10

Posted: 10/16/08 at 6:23pm

Fantastic news to have this FINALLY confirmed!

Should be interesting to see this one at 54. Very intrigued.

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Posted: 10/16/08 at 7:24pm

Considering how much I couldn't stand the view from the mezzanine for Sunday in the Park (which may have caused my total indifference to the show), I will invest in a decent orchestra seat for this production. Should be an interesting evening.

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Posted: 10/16/08 at 7:26pm

Very exciting!

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Posted: 10/16/08 at 9:54pm

I'm so excited about this production that I think I'm going to have to talk myself out of my expectations lest they become too frenzied to be matchable. I wish they were able to get it into the American Airlines instead, though. I really do hate Studio 54 as a venue. And not just because I still get flashbacks to the world's most heinous production of The Threepenny Opera.

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Posted: 10/16/08 at 10:35pm

"This will be a limited engagement."

So does anyone know when it's closing?

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re: GODOT with Irwin and Lane set for Studio 54; perfs begin 4/10

Posted: 10/16/08 at 11:00pm

anyone else think Studio 54 is too big of a theater? GODOT should've gone for the Booth, Schoenfeld or even Lyceum.

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re: GODOT with Irwin and Lane set for Studio 54; perfs begin 4/10

Posted: 10/16/08 at 11:14pm

But Godot is being produced by Roundabout... Their shows go into their theatres - which, until Henry Miller's Theatre reopens, are Studio 54 and the American Airlines. As far as size, the Schoenfeld has more seats than Studio 54, and the Lyceum just a little less than Studio 54 (and the Lyceum is further hampered by having the smallest orchestra capacity on Broadway and the wildly unpopular second balcony). I don't worry about Godot at Studio 54. I don't think anyone will have trouble hearing Nathan Lane.

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Posted: 10/16/08 at 11:55pm

Yero, I have an inkling it'll have run into June.

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Posted: 10/17/08 at 12:25am

If Bill Condon's revival of SIDE SHOW (which was being considered as a possible spring replacement when DANCIN' fell through) doesn't make it onto Roundabout's schedule next season, I'm going to be extremely dissapointed.

Just cast Leigh Ann Larkin and Brandi Burkhardt as Daisy and Violet and I'll be set.

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re: GODOT with Irwin and Lane set for Studio 54; perfs begin 4/10

Posted: 10/17/08 at 12:48am

So excited for Irwin. Everything else is kind of a yawn. I mean, really?

But who can say?

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Posted: 10/17/08 at 12:57am

Not excited... I'd rather see Dancin' than another production of this boring show.

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Posted: 10/17/08 at 1:58am

I am really looking foward to this. Bring it on!

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Posted: 10/17/08 at 8:24am

GREAT news!!!

Go Nathan!!!

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re: GODOT with Irwin and Lane set for Studio 54; perfs begin 4/10

Posted: 10/17/08 at 8:27am

I'd like more to see Irwin and Lane do some of Beckett's more experimental works: Act Without Words I & II; Lane doing Krapp's Last Tape, etc.

Updated On: 10/17/08 at 08:27 AM

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Posted: 10/17/08 at 10:20am

This is great news for me because I have never seen a live performance of GODOT. And there is the consolation prize of DANCIN' being postponed, not cancelled altogether.

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Posted: 10/17/08 at 11:11am

Excited for Irwin, excited for the play.

Lane? Not so much.

I wouldn't go to a matinee, if I were you.

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