Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#2re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/19/09 at 9:58pmHow about starring in the female version of "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" All she would have to do is lay in bed, spit out a few lines and collect her Tony.
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#3re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/19/09 at 10:00pm
Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker! You don't even have to speak!
Easy money!
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#4re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/19/09 at 10:02pmWhat Julia needs is a director who isn't a star****er and a play that requires movie star presence and not an actress.
#5re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/19/09 at 10:02pm
That is fantastic: I wish we had more actresses like her, movie stars who want to be in theater, and want to improve themselves.
More power to her!
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#6re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/19/09 at 10:27pmShe sounds like a smart lady to me. I hope she does come back.
A click for life.
mamie4 5/14/03
#7re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/19/09 at 11:04pmWhat's wrong with what she is saying? I find it incredibly humble and smart. She is accepting that she was way in over her head with THREE DAYS OF RAIN and she probably thinks she should take baby steps, start with an easier role. I do think she needs a stronger director than Mantello.
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#8re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/19/09 at 11:05pm
I actually liked Three Days of Rain, but it would've been nice to see her in something that actually played to her strengths. There was nary a romantic or comedic moment in the whole play, which is pretty cryptic to begin with.
I would definitely go see her in something else.
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#9re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/19/09 at 11:28pmWho was it, exactly, who told her she could act?! Whoever it was, I'm here to tell them, and her, she can't! She best serves Broadway, by buying a ticket!
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#10re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/19/09 at 11:45pm
I'm with Bustopher on this.
Plus she wasn't TERRIBLE in the role...she wasn't good either but...it's just kinda a blah play for her to decide to do. Or at least a blah revival. Nothing about it seemed...necessary. This is where I give props to Katie Holmes for choosing a smaller role in an infinitely stronger play with a fresh, interesting take. THREE DAYS OF RAIN was just so boring of a choice for the biggest movie star in America to make her Broadway debut in. I'd like to see her take another stab at it.
#11re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/19/09 at 11:46pmI think she should do a comedy.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#12re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/19/09 at 11:46pm... she could always play Roxie in Chicago like every other movie star....
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#13re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/20/09 at 12:04amEasier? So she wants to play a slut? Hm....thinking....
#14re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/20/09 at 12:11amMore power to her!
#15re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/20/09 at 12:20am
More importantly, what play do we have to pick to get Paul Rudd back on Broadway?! 
-best12bars
"Sorry I am a Theatre major not a English Major"
-skibumb5290
#16re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/20/09 at 1:22amAnd Bradley Cooper!
#17re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/20/09 at 1:45am
"She best serves Broadway, by buying a ticket!"
Love it!
#18re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/20/09 at 1:45am
The problem with THREE DAYS OF RAIN was Joe Mantello, not Julia Roberts.
Roberts was left to virtually fend for herself (with zero stage experience) because Mantello refused to push her in any sort of solid direction.
Hopefully she'll give Broadway another shot in a more ideal piece with a stronger creative visionary at the helm.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#19re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/20/09 at 1:58amwhen will someone just kick this horse in the teeth?
AngusN
Broadway Star Joined: 3/23/05
#20re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/20/09 at 6:53am
That's pretty harsh nexttoelectric, it's not like she's killed someone.
I think she is a fantastic actress: Dying Young, Erin Brokovitch etc. And with the correct play and a innovative director, I believe she'll do very well in the theatre.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#21re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/20/09 at 8:21amI'll never forget seeing Mantello at the preview of THREE DAYS OF RAIN I saw. He was sitting by the bar, his head in his hands. The entire show.
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
#22re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/20/09 at 11:07am
I think there's nothing wrong with what she said. We all know she was learning on the job. Now, having completed the job, she realizes the demands of that play were beyond her skills. And that her skills would be better suited for something else, or easier.
And I think she's correct: she could be wonderful in something else, something esier.
#23re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/20/09 at 11:23am
I would love to see her on stage. She's delivered some great screen performances. I know it's fun to hate any popular celeb, but numerous critics have praised time and again for several film roles.
Who was it, exactly, who told her she could act?! Whoever it was, I'm here to tell them, and her, she can't!
Me. And I am here to tell you and her that she can! Now what?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#24re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/20/09 at 11:35amOn screen, I think she's a decent, if rangeless, actress.
#25re: Julia Roberts Says She Wants to Return to Broadway in Easier Role
Posted: 2/20/09 at 1:09pmI don't think she was in over her head with "Three Days of Rain," I just think it was a lousy play. She wasn't bad at all, considering what she had to work with.
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