John Lithgow's upcoming play
John Lithgow's upcoming play
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#1John Lithgow's upcoming play
Posted: 12/1/09 at 5:20pmIn a tweet, John Lithgow mentioned he met with Scott Ellis to discuss their upcoming play in New York. I am assuming the play is Mr. and Mrs. Fitch, at the Second Stage... but I hate to assume...
#2re: John Lithgow's upcoming play
Posted: 12/1/09 at 5:22pmIt is. He and Jennifer Ehle are playing Mr and Mrs Fitch. Announced in August.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#3re: John Lithgow's upcoming play
Posted: 12/1/09 at 5:24pm
He has given his best performance so far on film in this season's DEXTER. This coming from a longtime fan who thought his work in RAISING CAIN would probably never be topped. I look forward to this new stage endeavor.
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Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#4re: John Lithgow's upcoming play
Posted: 12/1/09 at 5:38pm
Thanks all...with Christopher Walken's new play, and this one, I have two "Must Sees" on my list.
Absolutely love Lithgow in Dexter. Have crossed him off my babysitters' list though.
#5re: John Lithgow's upcoming play
Posted: 12/1/09 at 6:05pm
John Lithgow "tweets"?
I'm sure he'll win an Emmy next year for DEXTER.
"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"
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#6re: John Lithgow's upcoming play
Posted: 12/1/09 at 6:36pm
Yes, he tweets as John_Lithgow, and is worth following.
I agree with an Emmy nod for John Lithgow. Also, Jennifer Carpenter (Mrs. Michael C. Hall) has done amazingly well this season on Dexter. I didn't really like her before, but this season she has amazed me. Emmy for her too. And it's about time Emmy recognized Hall. He's funny...he's scary...he's terrific.
#7re: John Lithgow's upcoming play
Posted: 12/1/09 at 6:45pm
I agree Sally. Never have I come so full-circle from abhorring a character at first to absolutely LOVING her as I have with Ms. Carpenter/Mrs.Hall. It seems to me that this show won't be recognized by awards committees until after it is over, it may just be too dark. I thought when CBS started airing censored episodes that that a was a good sign that it was finding an even bigger audience and I wonder why they don't air more, though I suppose it was just a time-filler during the writer's strike in the first place. Either way, this is one of the only shows that started off great and somehow has gotten better each season.
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mc1227
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/07
#8re: John Lithgow's upcoming play
Posted: 12/1/09 at 8:30pmLithgow is truly one of the best all around performers of our time. He makes it look so easy.
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Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#9re: John Lithgow's upcoming play
Posted: 12/1/09 at 10:02pm
His performance in M BUTTERFLY haunts me still.
And with Jennifer Ehle?!?
*sigh* Opposite coasts can be annoying.
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