"June Moon" by Kaufman and Lardner
"June Moon" by Kaufman and Lardner
#1"June Moon" by Kaufman and Lardner
Posted: 7/12/16 at 11:17am
I seem to recall this was filmed as a televised play, possibly aired by PBS or HBO, I can't remember. It boasted an impressive cast which included Jack Cassidy, Kevin McCarthy, Estelle Parsons, Lee Meredith, Austin Pendleton, Susan Sarandon and Stephen Sondheim.
Coincidentally Sarandon and Pendleton co-starred in the 1974 remake of "The Front Page" with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
Has this been released in any home video format?
I would really like to see this.
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#5June Moon
Posted: 7/12/16 at 11:28am
Williamstown Theatre Festival did a wonderful production of this play two summers ago. It holds up really well. Shame it hasn't been on Broadway in over 80 years.
"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
#8June Moon
Posted: 7/12/16 at 12:23pm
I saw a version in 1983, with Michael Countryman and Mercedes Ruehl, off Broadway at the Lion Theater. I wish I could remember details, but my memories of the production are dim indeed.
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/21/arts/theater-june-moon-revival-of-29-comedy.html
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