How about a revival of DEATHTRAP?- Page 2

[morosco]

Posted: 1/29/09 at 4:22pm

The accent was just Caine I think. Kelsey Grammar flashed through my mind too.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/29/09 at 4:23pm

I think it was just Michael Caine.

I can see Grammar, but I'm holding out for Baldwin.

[TheCharleston]

Posted: 1/29/09 at 4:25pm

Welcome to the Reginald, Morosco, and Phyllis show!!

Please don't interrupt

[PRFRMR20]

Posted: 1/29/09 at 4:30pm

But I had as many post as Phyllis. Maybe I'll understudy...

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/29/09 at 4:30pm

blaxx, PRFRMR20, husk, I'm sure he didn't mean anything by that.

[PRFRMR20]

Posted: 1/29/09 at 4:32pm

Haha, great a small ensemble ready to go on the road! Let's go...... on with the show

[uncageg]

Posted: 1/29/09 at 4:39pm

I saw the show on Broadway and enjoyed it. I would probably see it again. I don't remember all of it but I do remember developing an instant crush on Ernie Townsend who was in it. It was the first time I stage doored because I wanted to meet him. And I did. Wonder what happened to him?

[TheCharleston]

Posted: 1/29/09 at 4:51pm

Intermission!

Reginald's foot is broken...

PRFMFR - it's your time to shine, baby.

[blaxx]

Posted: 1/29/09 at 5:04pm

It's not really a matter of updating. The whole first act revolves around the play only having one copy and no carbon copies made. I think that to modern audiences it will just look like a funny museum piece - instead of thinking of the thriller they'd be wondering "Really? That's how it was thirty years ago?" Also the fact that they have no cell phones, etc.

I think the play today would be more like "Thanks to modern technology, computer, blackberrys and i-pods you wouldn't get killed like this people!"

[morosco]

Posted: 1/29/09 at 5:07pm

lol...you are right blaxx.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/29/09 at 5:10pm

It's actually occurred to me on a number of occasions that the plots of many great films and plays simply wouldn't work in the era of the cell phone.

Never thought about typewriters, though.

And I guess the 80s is not far enough removed for it to seem an actual period piece, a la "The Mousetrap."

Oh well, I guess I'll just rewatch the movie.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 1/29/09 at 5:25pm

Did anyone see Robert Reed in the show? I've always wondered how he was.

[Jon]

Posted: 1/29/09 at 6:02pm

I saw the tour with Brian Bedford as Sidney, the late David Carroll as "whateverhisnameis", and the late Kathleen Freeman as Helga Ten Dorp.

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 1/29/09 at 8:22pm

Here is a radical thought, should they decide to mount a revival of what (I think) is a clever script. Set it in 1978. Then the carbon copy reference makes perfect sense. One man's museum piece is another man's quality revival.

Though some may say I'm biased... Updated On: 1/29/09 at 08:22 PM

[blaxx]

Posted: 1/29/09 at 9:06pm

A bit biased, love. No one doubts it's a great script, maybe in twenty years it would make sense and be a real period piece.

Although by now, most people either don't even know what a typewriter was (let alone carbon paper) or it would just make the audience feel really old.

Back when it opened, we all used them both. I'm sure photocopies were not even that common, so it could make sense that Clifford could be lying or really had sent the only copy. But the emphasis in the machinery would be too weird right now. Well, IMHO.

[VeraSimpson]

Posted: 1/29/09 at 9:19pm

Yeah just the play for homosexuals to rally around. A gay man murders his wealthy wife so he can have an affair with a boy. I suppose if you cast Nick Adams and he struts around shirtless it is all okay.

[[tos]fan999]

Posted: 1/30/09 at 12:36am

I just saw this play at my local regional theatre, and i thought it was brilliant.

Although I secretly wish for a revival of And Then There Were None, with the book's original ending.
That would make my life.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/30/09 at 10:09am

Okay, here's what we do: We mount a production of DEATHTRAP starring Alec Baldwin and Nick Adams but we re-write the ending so everyone will think it's new.

[BroadwayBoy2]

Posted: 1/30/09 at 10:31am

Typewriter?? Carbon Copy?? You guys can't just make up words here.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/30/09 at 11:22am

BB2, that was the funniest comment of the week!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/30/09 at 12:05pm

How about Alec Baldwin and Daniel Radcliffe?

Updated On: 1/30/09 at 12:05 PM

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/30/09 at 12:09pm

Not yet, Dollypop.

[madbrian]

Posted: 1/30/09 at 12:12pm

Wouldn't mind seeing Victor Garber, the original Clifford, play Sidney. Or Kevin Kline. Baldwin would be good, but I'm not a fan of Grammer.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/30/09 at 12:13pm

Well Radcliffe isn't going to stay young forever.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/30/09 at 3:30pm

"Yeah just the play for homosexuals to rally around."

So speaks the man with the most ladylike avatar I've seen in a long time.