About two weeks ago there was a test event up for a show at the Lyceum theatre has anyone heard anything about this? Usually once a test events goes up news goes out a few days after? I wonder what show it could be and if it possibly fell through like a man of no importantance
I kept hearing the Lyceum will be home to the West End cabaret but I think that was debunked. Do you happen to have a screenshot of the test event?
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. -Harold Prince
Synopsis of the play from its 2019 run in Chicago:
"After a brutal car wreck in the mountains of Oregon, a young couple seeks shelter from a blizzard in a small cabin. But the cabin's seemingly innocent inhabitants: four children and their minder, quickly start to expose the couple's secrets, unmake everything they know about themselves, and hurl them towards a potentially sinister destination. Grey House is a new horror play about the gravity of the past, and the cruel inevitability of its pull."
A Red Orchid, where this play premiered, is a TINY theater. Where the front row is on stage and there are only two rows of seats. It's hilarious to imagine this playing at the Lyceum. I adored this play but you should know it's not just a horror play but also incredibly WEIRD and a little gross.
i’m pretty sure i know what film Jordan means. early 2020ish? a film about a stepmother who ends up alone with her step kids at a cabin and something is attacking them? at least that’s what i gathered from the trailer
KJisgroovy said: "A Red Orchid, where this play premiered, is a TINY theater. Where the front row is on stage and there are only two rows of seats. It's hilarious to imagine this playing at the Lyceum. I adored this play but you should know it's not just a horror play but also incredibly WEIRD and a little gross.
I'm excited!"
They can always beef up a production. That's why you've got tiny productions of Sweeney and massive productions. Someone must have seen it and loved it to open it cold on Broadway.
east side story said: "And I’m still holding out hope that Mantello’s pre-pandemic revival of Virginia Woolf? starring Metcalf will see the light of day again."
I highly doubt that but weirder things have happened. As we know, Metcalf really doesn't sell tickets, and her costar Rupert Everett means even less. Maybe at an off-Bway nonprofit or for Audible.
The whole Metcalf run felt like a Rudin exercise in trying to "build" a star. He produced LADY BIRD, DOLL'S HOUSE 2, THREE TALL WOMEN, HILLARY & CLINTON, and VIRGINIA WOOLF. We got some good plays out of it, but 3TW is the only one that recouped (and barely so at that).