Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

#1

Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 2/24/06 at 10:09am

According to VARIETY: "Neil Patrick Harris, Len Cariou and Laurie Metcalf will star in the Geffen Playhouse's production of Arthur Miller's 'All My Sons.'" I wish LC a speedy return to Broadway! I know it wasn't everyone's cup 'o tea, but he & Penny Fuller were especially wonderful in Simon's "Dinner Party". & Speaking of Penny, isn't she slated to return to Birdland? Saw her show there a few mo's ago.

Milla

#2

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 2/24/06 at 10:15am

Ooh I saw Laurie Metcalfe play the role in London and she was absolutely mesmerising.

---

Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

#3

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 2/24/06 at 10:35am

This is a great play. any hope for a bway transfer?

---

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

#4

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 2/24/06 at 10:40am

Allow me to take this opportunity to be a freak and say, Len Carious, I love you!

---

You promised me poems. ~Tricky

#5

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 2/24/06 at 10:41am

It's 19 years since the last revival of the show and that revival only ran 31 performances. If this is anything like the production that ran at the National Theatre a few years back (Laurie Metcalfe was in it when it was brought back by popular demand) it will be astonishing.

---

Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

#6

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 2/24/06 at 1:19pm

I say it's time. All of the main themes regard humanity and therefore are never not current in the world. Especially that we're in a war time, thay adds to the relativity.

---

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

#7

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 2/24/06 at 4:29pm

I saw a production of this at Actors Theatre of Louisville a couple years back and I remember being entranced by the show.

I think NPH will be great.

---

"Who says you can't bend over backwards and eat bugs if you want to? I guess the bugs would probably say you can't do that that, but assuming that they are willing and consenting bugs, then there's no problem. Let's wig out eating bugs." -RuPaul

#8

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 2/24/06 at 4:40pm

I saw the last major New York revival that Roundabout did in 1997(when it was still at the Criterion Center). It starred John Cullum, Michael Hayden, Keira Naughton and Linda Stephens and, aside from a couple of truly odd directorial touches (the actors did the climactic scene in slow motion ?!?), it was quite engaging and the acting was superb.

---

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

#9

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 2/24/06 at 4:42pm

why isn't that listed on ibdb? Or is it and I just misread the dates?

---

Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

#10

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 2/24/06 at 4:43pm

BWW News Desk has a article about this:
https://losangeles.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=7783

#11

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 2/24/06 at 4:53pm

ALL MY SONS played at Roundabout's old Criterion Center Off-Broadway space (only 390 seats), the Laura Pels Theatre (the new Laura Pels is on 46th & 6th) so the production wouldn't be listed on IBDB, but on the Lortel Archives site. That production won a Lortel Award for Best Revival, incidentally.

---

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

#12

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 2/24/06 at 8:31pm

Margo - I saw a production of DETECTIVE STORY at the Shaw Festival in Canada a few years ago. That director also did the climactic scene in slow motion. I think he was going for a "film noir" feel. The sets were all in shades of grey (maybe he saw City of Angels?)and the lighting was very gloomy.

#13

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 2/25/06 at 12:28am

Oh wow, great cast too, that sounds like it would be wonderful to see, despite me not really liking Arthur Miller work.
That John Cullum one seems interesting too. And cause he is the almighty Mr. Cladwell

---

#14

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 2/25/06 at 12:32am

This is one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays and I imagine Len Cariou will be magnificent (the rest of the cast sounds great, too); Joe Keller is, I think, one of Arthur Miller's more compelling characters and I'd love to see LC's take on it.

#15

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 2/26/06 at 6:24pm

I wonder if Mr. Cariou will learn his lines or need to have them fed to him through an earpiece, as was apparently the case when he did Kismet for Reprise a year or two ago. He was horrible, and I'm not usually one to be so critical.

#16

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 4/17/06 at 12:36pm

I had the pleasure of seeing this on Saturday.
The show was amazing. Metcalf gave the most heartbreaking and brilliant performance I've ever seen live. Cariou was excellent as well...Though he did forget a lot of his lines. Out of the three of them, NPH gave the "weakest" performance, which was still quite good. It was my favorite night in the theatre. Truly an excellent production.

#17

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 4/17/06 at 12:46pm

The Emelin Theater for the Performing Arts in Westchester did this back in the early 90s with a pretty decent cast (forgot who played the father)and it was riveting

---

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka

#18

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 4/17/06 at 3:24pm

To me, ALL MY SONS is one of the great underappreciated masterpieces of 20th Century drama. I'd love to see it return to New York.

#19

re: Len Cariou + ALL MY SONS

Posted: 4/17/06 at 4:36pm

MEF - I agree, but I'm somewhat of a Miller freak. We see this Friday night, and I can't wait!