“Two-time Tony Award winner and Oscar nominee Laurie Metcalf (Hillary and Clinton) and Tony nominee Eddie Izzard (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg) will go head-to-head as Martha and George in a new production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, scheduled to open on Broadway April 9, 2020. Performances will begin March 2 at a theatre to be announced.”
With Russell Tovey and Patsy Ferran.
"When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written." -Stephen Sondheim
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
sabrelady said: "I'm having trouble seeing Metcalf as "blowsy"."
I had trouble picturing Amy Morton as “blowsy” too and boy was I unimaginative. I think it’s interesting that our two most recent Marthas (not counting Imelda because that production was across the pond) are hard, gritty Chicago actresses - not at all the types we used to associate with a Martha, the “melons bobbling” archetype Liz Taylor made so iconic.
There just weren't any available American actors in the entire continent ready willing and able to play these three roles. They just had to go with British actors. Is there some kind of Equity deal going on? Or is Eddie Izzard's cache just that strong?
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How is this not blowing up everyones' collective minds??? Laurie as Martha and Eddie is returning to Broadway??? Either of those statements in isolation would bring me complete joy but both together make me want to do a backflip
Was hoping we’d have another Metcalf play at the Golden, but I guess if Slave Play does well this could also take the Booth? Or the Lyceum after A Christmas Carol?