Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010

[WayTooBroadway]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#1

Posted: 2/1/10 at 1:32pm

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/from-osage-county-to-kaufman-and-hart/

Directed by Anna D. Shapiro.

"When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written." -Stephen Sondheim

[Mister Matt]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#2

Posted: 2/1/10 at 2:56pm

Ugh...I've played Ed in the show twice and have no interest in revisiting it. It's cute, but I don't think it aged well.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[CyCoSpAz2]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#2

Posted: 2/1/10 at 2:58pm

one of the most boring plays I have ever seen in my life, granted it was a high school production

[somethingwicked]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#3

Posted: 2/1/10 at 3:01pm

Laura Benanti was attached last summer to play Alice in a production of YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU that was targeted for Broadway in the spring of this year through Manhattan Theatre Club.

I wonder if this is the same one now shepherded by commercial producers? I guess we'll see.

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

Updated On: 2/1/10 at 03:01 PM

[Auggie27]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#4

Posted: 2/1/10 at 3:35pm

Have to respectfully disagree with the naysayers. I continue to think the play timeless and perhaps even relevant to the climate today. But it plays so wonderfully with the right folks in it. I still have a bad vhs of the Papermill/Broadway production with Jason Robards, Elizabeth Wilson, George Rose, Colleen Dewhurst (Olga Katrina) and an extraordinary supporting cast. The production always moves me to tears during the family grace scenes. Robards was magic. Many people enjoyed their replacements, which included Eddie Albert and I think Eva Gabor as the countess. I'm delighted it's returning.

Casting ideas?

Not a bad role in it.

"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling

[Jordan Catalano]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#5

Posted: 2/1/10 at 3:38pm

It's a good choice for a play right now, I think. You can get some great names in it, it's a well known title that people will go to. All in all if done right, it could be a huge hit.

[jennyish]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#6

Posted: 2/1/10 at 3:45pm

YES. I AM SO ON BOARD WITH THIS.

I chose, and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not.

[Gothampc]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#7

Posted: 2/1/10 at 3:53pm

Here's my cast:

Robert Morse as the grandfather.

John Benjamin Hickey and Faith Prince as the parents.

Sutton Foster as Essie and Anne Hathaway as Alice.

Jason Alexander as Boris.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[Auggie27]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#8

Posted: 2/1/10 at 3:56pm

Meg Mundy was also memorable as Mrs. Kirby in the Papermill-created revival. But the great, always underappreciated Elizabeth Wilson turned the role of Penny into a comic jewell. (I've seen it rather humorless.) Watch her eyes as she writes her plays.

Harriet Harris as Penny?
Andrea Martin as Olga Katrina?

"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling

[WOSQ]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#9

Posted: 2/1/10 at 3:57pm

Colleen Dewhurst who played the small role of the Countess (?) in Act III said in an interview at the time that it was so nice to take a curtain call and look out into the house and see teeth, as in smiles. She had played tragic roles of O'Neill et al, for so long, she forgot that a comedy would affect the audience differently.

This is a sweetheart of a play when it is done well.

"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher

[Auggie27]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#10

Posted: 2/1/10 at 3:59pm

Dewhurst was magnificent. It's one scene, but she wiped up. And she and Robards have a delicious moment about making the blintzes, their own history with O'Neill remembered by many unavoidably. She played the swinging door to the kitchen for all it's worth. I will make ... BLINTZ!

"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling

[Jordan Catalano]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#11

Posted: 2/1/10 at 4:03pm

So which role will Rosie be playing?

[zepka102]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#12

Posted: 2/1/10 at 4:41pm

Well there goes my dream of playing Tony in a revival of the show!

::bust a move::

[ColorTheHours048]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#13

Posted: 2/1/10 at 4:45pm

I'm more excited to see another show helmed by Shapiro than I am for the play itself. If it's done well, which I'm sure it will be, it can be very good. The play is a little dusty, but I'm sure Shapiro can make it shine.

[Kad]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#14

Posted: 2/1/10 at 5:56pm

Most of the plays Kaufman worked on have not aged well at all, but this and The Man Who Came To Dinner have probably aged the best out of the lot.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[Vespertine1228]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#15

Posted: 2/1/10 at 7:27pm

Ugh. Can't we put famous people in a new play?

[Pgenre]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#16

Posted: 2/1/10 at 7:31pm

Hey, the play certainly has aged better and is more fondly remembered than the musical version (TAF) undoubtedly will be, if it is ever remembered at all.

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[OtherDaryl]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#17

Posted: 2/1/10 at 7:57pm

Rondi Reed as Penny
John Mahoney as Grandpa
Fran Guinan as Paul
Laurie Metcalf as Gay Harrington
Al Wilder as Mr. De Pinna
Ian Barford as Ed
Marianne Mayberry as Essie
Estelle Parsons as Olga
John Malkovich as Boris
Patrick Wilson as Tony
Natalie Portman as Alice

"Love Life. Live." Michael Bennett

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#18

Posted: 2/1/10 at 8:24pm

Well, I'm excited! I also love the idea of Faith Prince as the mother.

In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy

[TalkinLoud]

Kaufman & Hart's YOU CAN'T TAKE IT... on Broadway, fall 2010#19

Posted: 2/1/10 at 10:53pm

I'm spending a year away from NYC roughly May 2010-May 2011. I'm going to hate hearing about all of these wonderful shows opening up that I won't be able to see. A couple of roadtrips to catch up will certainly be in order.