Lonergan's Starry Messenger at MTC with Broderick
Lonergan's Starry Messenger at MTC with Broderick
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#1Lonergan's Starry Messenger at MTC with Broderick
Posted: 5/22/07 at 8:40am
The NY Times reports that Kenneth Lonergan's The Starry Messenger will be a part of MTC's City Center season with Matthew Broderick starring.
New Date for Lonergan Play
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
"The Starry Messenger," a play written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan and starring Matthew Broderick, was scheduled to open on Broadway last month. But Hollywood intervened, specifically Mr. Lonergan's movie "Margaret," which took longer than expected, pre-empting a pre-Broadway tryout at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego.
The production is still alive, though, and will be part of the Manhattan Theater Club's 2007-8 season at City Center. "The Starry Messenger" is Mr. Lonergan's first new play since "Lobby Hero" in 2001, a return to theater that he has been looking forward to.
"When I go by a movie set, I cringe," Mr. Lonergan said in a phone interview yesterday. "When I go by the Provincetown Playhouse on Macdougal Street and see all the actors onstage rehearsing, it makes me feel all warm inside."
The Starry Messenger
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#2re: Lonergan's Starry Messenger at MTC with Broderick
Posted: 5/22/07 at 9:03amYAY! The more Lonergan the better! And it will be nice to see Broderick in something that isn't 100% Comedy with a capital C.
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Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: Lonergan's Starry Messenger at MTC with Broderick
Posted: 5/22/07 at 9:08amWhatever happened to that Douglas Carter Beane show where he and Sarah Jessica were the gossip columnists?
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#3re: Lonergan's Starry Messenger at MTC with Broderick
Posted: 5/22/07 at 9:46amWho cares??? I'll take Longergan over Beane any day!
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#4re: Lonergan's Starry Messenger at MTC with Broderick
Posted: 5/22/07 at 9:52am
Just read this on Broadway.com too - great news!
http://www.broadway.com/Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=548574
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