Posted: 3/22/24 at 1:01pm
New play by Delia Ephron
Theatre and exact dates TBA (opening on Broadway Fall 2024)
Directed by Susan Stroman
Daryl Roth lead producer
Posted: 3/22/24 at 1:27pm
I adore him on stage; her? I don't dislike her, but find her a bit cold, distant.
Posted: 3/22/24 at 1:40pm
If enough 55+ white women who buy full-priced tickets still exist, this could be a middlebrow crowdpelaser. But it will primarily hinge on Margulies' drawing power...GOOD WIFE and MORNING SHOW fit that demographic, but I don't know if those viewers care enough about her.
I hope this is just temporary placeholder key art on the show's Squarespace-powered website!
Do we know if this is a two-hander or is further casting to be announced?
Updated On: 3/22/24 at 01:40 PM
Posted: 3/22/24 at 1:50pm
Kalinda Sharma is calling
Posted: 3/22/24 at 1:52pm
The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story in her "resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution.
Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She’d lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry’s death, she decided to make one small change in her life—she shut down his landline, which crashed her internet. She ended up in Verizon hell.
She channeled her grief the best way she knew: by writing a New York Times op-ed. The piece caught the attention of Peter, a Bay Area psychiatrist, who emailed her to commiserate. Recently widowed himself, he reminded her that they had shared a few dates fifty-four years before, set up by Nora. Delia did not remember him, but after several weeks of exchanging emails and sixties folk songs, he flew east to see her. They were crazy, utterly, in love.
But this was not a rom-com: four months later she was diagnosed with AML, a fierce leukemia.
In Left on Tenth, Delia Ephron enchants as she seesaws us between tears and laughter, navigating the suicidal lows of enduring cutting-edge treatment and the giddy highs of a second chance at love. With Peter and her close girlfriends by her side, with startling clarity, warmth, and honesty about facing death, Ephron invites us to join her team of warriors and become believers ourselves.
Posted: 3/22/24 at 1:56pm
I’m not a middle aged white woman but this sounds cute and romantic.
Posted: 3/22/24 at 3:05pm
This sounds more like something for Debra Messing?
Posted: 3/22/24 at 3:11pm
inception said: "This sounds more like something for Debra Messing?"
I agree. She knows how to infuse comedy very subtle and this has a hint of rom-com that is in her realm. Loved her in BIRTHDAY CANDLES.
Posted: 3/22/24 at 3:36pm
The absolute hardest of passes after Margulies’ deranged podcast interview.
Posted: 3/22/24 at 4:02pm
orlikethecolorpurple said: "The absolute hardest of passes after Margulies’ deranged podcast interview."
I came to say the same thing. Hard pass. Hope this show flops.
Posted: 3/22/24 at 4:06pm
I know this is a true story, but the "widowed person falls in love with someone across the country after the person hears their story in the media" is basically Sleepless in Seattle (funny enough, given the Ephron connection, so it's too bad they couldn't get Hanks and Ryan for this.
Updated On: 3/22/24 at 04:06 PM
Posted: 3/22/24 at 4:57pm
spicemonkey said: "Kalinda Sharma is calling"
Look, in terms of Delia Ephron projects, if You've Got Mail ever gets remade, Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi could sell the hell out of playing characters who can't stand being in the same room with each other.
Posted: 3/22/24 at 5:20pm
Hard no with Julianna Margulies. You've lost most of your younger crowd (including the ones who watched GOOD WIFE) since she's not well liked since her recent comments and views.
There's a reason some people enjoyed the Good Fight spin off, considering her absence...
Posted: 3/22/24 at 6:56pm
Julianna has great stage presence, is a recognizable face alongside Gallagher, under the EPHRON name/script. Count me in, and lol at the 37 people all mad at her for some comments she apologized for on a podcast.
Posted: 3/22/24 at 7:18pm
PipingHotPiccolo said: "Julianna has great stage presence, is a recognizable face alongside Gallagher, under the EPHRON name/script. Count me in, and lol at the 37 people all mad at her for some comments she apologized for on a podcast."
She “apologized” to black and lqbtq people (despite saying what she said with her full chest), but not for being staunchly Islamophobic. Perhaps you also deem Muslims subhuman? You’re in fine company!
Posted: 3/22/24 at 7:38pm
yup, sounds like a reasonable analysis of my views. ill have to walk around your protest signs on my way into the theater, i guess.
Posted: 3/22/24 at 7:41pm
You and Debra Messing will love the show!
Posted: 3/22/24 at 7:44pm
i mean, i dont know if ill like the show, but ill definitely go see it, yes, and you can rage and whine about me, debra messing, peter gallagher, daryl roth, delia ephron, and everyone else rolling their eyes at you as we walk on by.
Posted: 3/22/24 at 8:10pm
Agree with all those critical of Julianna Margulies’ casting. She is a racist, Islamophobic bigot and it goes far beyond her horrible comments on that podcast. The things she was sharing on social media in the fall were so stomach churning - posts demonizing and fear mongering about Brown people that genuinely makes it more dangerous for us here.
as a previous fan of her and her work- it is beyond disappointing.But I hope she is met with consistent backlash for the rest of her career. We will look back on remarks like hers in 10 years or so and wonder how we ever let such blatant Islamophobic public figures continue working .
Updated On: 3/22/24 at 08:10 PM
Posted: 3/22/24 at 8:13pm
SondheimTesori said: "Agree with all those critical of Julianna Margulies’ casting. She is a racist, Islamophobicbigot and it goes far beyond her horrible comments on that podcast. The things she was sharing on social media in the fall were so stomach churning - posts demonizing and fear mongeringabout Brownpeople that genuinely makes it more dangerousfor us here
as a precious fanof her and her work- it is beyond disappointing.But I hope she is met with consistent backlash for the rest of her career. We will look back on remarks like hers in 10 years or so and wonder how we ever let such blatant Islamophobic publiccontinue working ."
Oh puhleeze GFY
Posted: 3/22/24 at 9:26pm
orlikethecolorpurple said: "PipingHotPiccolo said: "Julianna has great stage presence, is a recognizable face alongside Gallagher, under the EPHRON name/script. Count me in, and lol at the 37 people all mad at her for some comments she apologized for on a podcast."
She “apologized” to black and lqbtq people (despite saying what she said with her full chest), but not for being staunchly Islamophobic. Perhaps you also deem Muslims subhuman? You’re in fine company!"
orlikethecolorpurple - you can block them easily. Do yourself a favor : ))
Posted: 3/22/24 at 9:28pm
SondheimTesori said: "
But I hope she is met with consistent backlash for the rest of her career. We will look back on remarks like hers in 10 years or so and wonder how we ever let such blatant Islamophobic publicfigures continueworking ."
she was just cast in a high profile broadway play. so she *isnt* being shunned in the present tense, let alone for the next ten years, and i can assure you, history will look back on her career without even the tiniest footnote to the perennially outraged who are mad about it.
but until this hysteria actually seeps out of the margins, we can just ignore it, and wish the angry well. shrug.
Posted: 3/22/24 at 10:32pm
I’ll never ceased to be amazed by the condescension that drips from certain posters anytime someone rightfully points out bad behavior (to put it lightly) from people in the industry.
One degree away from Republicans screaming about wokeness. Pathetic
Posted: 3/22/24 at 11:05pm
So wait, let me see if I have this right. Are there actually people on here saying that, just because Margulies said something in a podcast that they disagreed with, she should never work again? I mean, yeah, that seems logical.
Posted: 3/23/24 at 12:27am
It certainly isn't illogical to think actions should have consequences, especially when you consider the heinous **** Julianna spewed.
