Keri Russell is Eve Harrington in ALL ABOUT EVE Benefit

[somethingwicked]

Keri Russell is Eve Harrington in ALL ABOUT EVE Benefit#1

Posted: 11/6/08 at 12:54pm

According to Variety:

"Keri Russell will play scheming starlet Eve in the Actors' Fund one-night-only reading of "All About Eve."

Russell, whose screen credits include TV skein "Felicity" and the upcoming Adam Sandler pic "Bedtime Stories," joins a cast that already includes Annette Bening (as Margo Channing), Angela Lansbury, Cynthia Nixon, Peter Gallagher, Joel Grey and Jennifer Tilly, among others.

Event is a benefit for the Actors' Fund, a service org for performers and behind-the-scenes professionals. Helmed by John Erman, reading is set for Nov. 10 at Broadway's Eugene O'Neill Theater..."

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: 11/6/08 at 12:54 PM

[VocalLizzy]

re: Keri Russell is Eve Harrington in ALL ABOUT EVE Benefit#2

Posted: 11/6/08 at 1:15pm

Ohhhh, that's REALLY a good choice. I can see her playing the ingenue and morphing into the scheming tough cookie as the show progresses.

(and hey, she's my neighbor - lives about 2 blocks from me LOL)

I've got nosebleed tickets for this - I can't wait!

Miss Lizzy

Rock of Ages - "Nothin' but a good time!"

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

re: Keri Russell is Eve Harrington in ALL ABOUT EVE Benefit#2

Posted: 11/6/08 at 1:45pm

LOVE her.

This should be amazing.

[jocl91]

re: Keri Russell is Eve Harrington in ALL ABOUT EVE Benefit#3

Posted: 11/6/08 at 1:56pm

Excellent! This thread also reminded me I haven't watched Waitress in a really long time. I should do that.

[Shannon Bo Dannon]

re: Keri Russell is Eve Harrington in ALL ABOUT EVE Benefit#4

Posted: 11/6/08 at 2:02pm

I adore her!

And she was phenomenal in Waitress! She was robbed of an Oscar nomination for that performance.

[legally_popular]

re: Keri Russell is Eve Harrington in ALL ABOUT EVE Benefit#5

Posted: 11/6/08 at 3:04pm

Wow, what a great cast. I wish I could go to this!

[Tom1071]

re: Keri Russell is Eve Harrington in ALL ABOUT EVE Benefit#6

Posted: 11/6/08 at 3:41pm

VocalLizzy,

It's a relatively small theatre, you're going to be able to see everything just fine. The Eugiene O'Neill is one of those theatres where there just isn't a bad seat in the house.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Keri Russell is Eve Harrington in ALL ABOUT EVE Benefit#7

Posted: 11/6/08 at 6:10pm

I can definitely see her being good in this. For some reason her look reminds me of Ann Baxter in the film.
I don't know why I was hoping for Mamie Gummer, whom I think would nail both parts, but Russell is a classy, wonderful choice. I would be the happiest if I could be there, sucks I won't be able to

"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"

[broadwayfan7]

re: Keri Russell is Eve Harrington in ALL ABOUT EVE Benefit#8

Posted: 11/6/08 at 6:28pm

Good for Keri! Such an amazing cast!

"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."

[ShbrtAlley44]

re: Keri Russell is Eve Harrington in ALL ABOUT EVE Benefit#9

Posted: 11/6/08 at 7:28pm

That's a great choice. Love her in Waitress.