Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk & Bill Burr Will Lead GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS on Broadway, Spring 2025

Wow. Insanely good casting, both for this show and from a commercial/box office perspective.

I fell asleep halfway through the press announcement. Enjoy your $600 seats, everyone.

I really like this play but even more so the casting. It's spot-on. That's one of the hottest trio of stars to come to Broadway in a long, long time. Oh, wait a minute, I forgot about American Buffalo and Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss. Mamet sure can write the roles that attract exciting actors...

Has Mamet ever revised the stage show to include the “sales representative meeting” from the film?


I think Mamet has to be the only playwright whose best remembered and most infinitely quoted and referenced material is all from a scene that appears only in the film version. It’s a good play, but that scene in the film is better than any scene in the show.

The only similar situation I can think of is Balderson/Deane’s “Dracula,” where the stage show did not contain the castle scene with all the iconic lines. When the play and film are both public domain next year, you can bet it’s getting added in.

https://www.glengarryonbroadway.com/

What I want to know is how Jeffrey Richards keeps getting these theaters and these casts!

thatdarnzach said: "I fell asleep halfway through the press announcement. Enjoy your $600 seats, everyone."

Same. Like nothing could be less interesting.

TaffyDavenport said: ""Always Be Closing" is prominently featured on the show's official site, so it's probably a safe bet that they're adding that scene."

I highly doubt that. Mamet has always been super protective of this work and hasn't allowed a single word to be changed. I can't imagine him suddenly inserting a new scene now. Especially since they didn't include it in the prior 2 revivals, both of which were long after the movie came out.

From Strindberg to Robbins to Osborne to Mamet there will always be not-nice people working in the theater. Where's this hysteria and calls for censure when the right-leaning Stoppard has a revival in NY?

The enduring art will live on long past anyone's purity test and there's nothing you can do about it.

Updated On: 8/8/24 at 03:02 PM

Good grief, how many times are we going to revive this play??? And do we seriously need ANY more Mamet on Broadway after all his BS?

A friendly reminder of his quotes/beliefs as of late:

"Now we have kindergarteners being trained in a bizarre catechism of sexual identity politics."

"What we have is kids not only being indoctrinated but groomed, in a very real sense, by people who are, whether they know it or not, sexual predators. Are they abusing the kids physically? No, I don't think so. But they are abusing them mentally and using sex to do so. This has always been the problem with education. Teachers are inclined, particularly men because men are predators, to pedophilia."

"society needs to get pruned and we need to cut off the diseased parts and go back to individual control of our own destiny. That’s called freedom."

Girl, BYE.