Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano

[Smaxie]

Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#1

Posted: 8/1/07 at 5:04am

Riedel reports this morning that Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner are likely to do a 10 week run of Cyrano de Bergerac this fall at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, under the direction of David Leveaux.

The column also has news about the Pal Joey revival, which Roundabout might pick up for Studio 54.
Riedel - Cyrano and Pal Joey

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[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#2

Posted: 8/1/07 at 5:13am

Sweet, Riedel's column had been getting a little boring lately. This is nice theater gossip.
I believe Garner is a great actress so it'll be great to see her make her Broadway debut plus she has stage experience.

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[Yankeefan007]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#2

Posted: 8/1/07 at 8:20am

THAT is orgasmic.

[best12bars]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#3

Posted: 8/1/07 at 8:55am

Jennifer apprenticed at the same theatre where I got my union card in Michigan... although we were several centuries apart.

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[Lm4dham052]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#4

Posted: 8/1/07 at 8:59am

Well that just brought a smile to my face. I adore Kevin Kline, and Jennifer Garner is an amazing actress.

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[opium_gaze]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#5

Posted: 8/1/07 at 9:02am

ahh man, i just love jennifer garner and would love to see that but i've already booked my next trip to NYC for jan 13-20. i will miss it

[Yankeefan007]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#6

Posted: 8/1/07 at 9:20am

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/109971.html

Looks official to me, even though no casting has been announced. I trust Riedel.

[RentBoy86]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#7

Posted: 8/1/07 at 9:45am

Does sound good.

I'm confused about Pal Joey. Isn't Sunday in the Park expected to run in Studio 54 in the spring?

[jordangirl]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#8

Posted: 8/1/07 at 9:45am

I might have to tolerate Garner for Kline. But it's gonna be a tough pill to swallow. She grates on my last nerve.

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[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#9

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:34am

"Kline's nose, though, is holding out for above-the-title billing, a limousine to and from the theater and a Tony bump in salary if it gets a nomination."

If it's a 10 week run beginning in October, the show is going to be closed long before the Tony nominations are announced. Though it sounds like Riedel is just kidding around.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-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)

[wonderfulwizard11]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#10

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:46am

Rentboy, Sunday in the Park with George is being done in the winter, not the spring. So another musical could go into Studio 54 (or the American Airlines).

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

[robbiej]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#11

Posted: 8/1/07 at 11:03am

Stockard Channing as Vera??? Fantastic.

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[Roscoe]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#12

Posted: 8/1/07 at 11:14am

I'd be a good deal more excited if it was anybody but David Leveaux directing. After that mess of a GLASS MENAGERIE, and those really dreadful revivals of JUMPERS and NINE, I shudder to think of what he'll do to CYRANO.

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[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#13

Posted: 8/1/07 at 11:18am

You forgot FIDDLER ON THE ROOF as well. Ugh.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-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)

[Smaxie]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#14

Posted: 8/1/07 at 11:25am

I thought Leveaux's work on Jumpers was sensational, sorry. A very difficult play, in a confident, stylish production, with great performances from Simon Russell Beale and Essie Davis.

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[Roscoe]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#15

Posted: 8/1/07 at 11:28am

Oy, that FIDDLER, with that bizarre set that was recycled for 110 IN THE SHADE.

I thought Leveaux's work on JUMPERS sucked. Sorry. A dreadful bloated overthought and underfunny play, in a silly and overproduced and overdesigned production, with wildly overrated performances from Simon Russell Beale and Essie Davis.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[erinrebecca]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#16

Posted: 8/1/07 at 11:35am

I don't know about Kevin Kline but I do know that it's true about Jennifer.

ray, this won't be her Broadway debut. She was in A Month in the Country in '95.

[Smaxie]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#17

Posted: 8/1/07 at 11:36am

Americans have never quite appreciated Jumpers, so Roscoe, your foot-stamping reaction to it doesn't exactly surprise me.

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[Anakela]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#18

Posted: 8/1/07 at 11:46am

I might have to tolerate Garner for Kline. But it's gonna be a tough pill to swallow. She grates on my last nerve.

hee- I'm ok either way with her, but a friend of mine who has gone to exactly *one* show with me, of anything, ever, just emailed me to say we should go to this, for the Jennifer Garner factor.

[Roscoe]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#19

Posted: 8/1/07 at 11:51am

Well, it seems to be just this particular American who hated JUMPERS, everybody else went nuts for it. It has always felt like an overdone Python sketch to me.

I'd much rather see David Esbjornson or Bartlett Sher direct CYRANO. But here's a question. I am a huge admirer of Kevin Kline, but isn't he a bit old for the role?

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/

[jordangirl]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#20

Posted: 8/1/07 at 11:55am

hee- I'm ok either way with her, but a friend of mine who has gone to exactly *one* show with me, of anything, ever, just emailed me to say we should go to this, for the Jennifer Garner factor.

anakela ~ Yeah...I think I'm about the only person in America who can't stand her. Oh well...I can use that ticket money for something else. Or go on a night she's not there. LOL.

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[Anakela]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#21

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:00pm

Yeah...I think I'm about the only person in America who can't stand her. Oh well...I can use that ticket money for something else. Or go on a night she's not there. LOL.

Hee- can you imagine a night she's not there- it'll be all these Alias fans fighting to get their money refunded, and then there's you actually wanting to get in. :)

[Smaxie]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#22

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:06pm

>Everybody else went nuts for it<

Quite a few of the critics loved it. But I think Broadway audiences were as bewildered in 2004 as they were in 1972.

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[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#23

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:10pm

I'm not familiar with Cyrano. Does Kline play Garner's father?

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-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)

[AC126748]

re: Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner for Cyrano#24

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:11pm

Nope.

Here's a synopsis. You might also be familiar with the Steve Martin film ROXANNE, which is an updating of the story.
http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/rostand002.html

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Updated On: 8/1/07 at 12:11 PM