New play PF opening on Broadway this fall?

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 10:42am

https://www.playbill.com/job/p-f-broadway-nyc-epa-06-15-23-06-16-23/53df695d-1354-44fb-802b-048fdfe96c53

PERSONNEL
New Play by Jordan Tannahill
Directed by Robert O’Hara
Produced by Jeremy O. Harris, Sue Wagner, John Johnson
GM: Wagner Johnson Productions
Casting by: Taylor Williams
Associate Casting Director: Ross Shenker

Expected to attend:
Casting Director: Taylor Williams
Associate Casting Director: Ross Shenker

OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: on or about August 7, 2023
First preview: on or about September 27, 2023
Opening: on or about October 19, 2023
Closing: on or about February 4, 2024

[BJR]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 10:44am

And PF is an abbreviation of the more provocative title.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 10:49am

BJR said: "And PF is an abbreviation of the more provocative title."

Prima Facie?

[EvanHansen]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 10:59am

https://www.softpunkmag.com/essay/on-the-brink-of-catastrophe-jordan-tannahill

[BroadwayGuy12]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 11:44am

From the above interview, for those who don't feel like reading the whole thing:

"But I also have a new play, which hopefully is going to have a commercial run on the West End next year. It's called “Prince F****t”. In a nutshell, it's about Prince George 10 years from now, coming out to William and Kate. It traces ten years in his queer coming of age, culminating in the first gay royal wedding. It's a pretty raw kind of political satire, looking at the relationship between queerness and power, and the ways in which some forms of queerness have always been admitted into the halls of power — namely, white, cis, male gayness — and others have been kept at the curb. So yeah, that's a play that I wrote during lockdown."

[Sauja]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 12:30pm

Prince George is 9-years-old. A play predicting his sexuality is repugnant. Make it about a fictional prince, for gods sake. Just…leave children alone. Even if they’re born into wild privilege. 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 12:38pm

Ewww. No thanks. 

[JSquared2]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 12:48pm

Is it April Fool's Day?

 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 12:51pm

Sauja said: "Prince George is 9-years-old. A play predicting his sexuality is repugnant. Make it about a fictional prince, for gods sake. Just…leave children alone. Even if they’re born into wild privilege."

This. Even making it the fictional son of William & Kate would be less gross. In the same way that children of other public figures should be left alone until they are of age (something Chelsea Clinton and the Bush daughters have spoken about).

[JasonC3]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 1:18pm

What a poor choice for the playwright to make.  FOX News and the "groomer brigade" will harp on this endlessly.

[heybaby]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 1:38pm

Agreed. I find this completely gross. 

[Mr. Wormwood]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 1:46pm

JasonC3 said: "What a poor choice for the playwright to make. FOX News and the "groomer brigade" will harp on this endlessly."

And the unfortunate thing is they'd be right in this case, which will embolden them and make them think they are right in other situations (when they're usually not). But yeah, this is icky and terrible. 

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 2:05pm

Jeremy O. Harris is attached. That’s all I need to know to avoid like the plague.

 

Not to mention this sounds like downright cruelty.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 2:21pm

Was there any media in the 90’s fantasizing over a young William being a gay?  Or Charles? How come people are so fascinated about George’s sexuality, it is so sickening and I hope this show and any trying to be like it receive backlash. Why do they have to write a play specifically about George and not a fictional royal? Just seems like they’re begging to be ridiculed.

[Voter]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 2:32pm

Interested which theater they may have managed to grab

[gibsons2]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 2:55pm

JasonC3 said: "What a poor choice for the playwright to make. FOX News and the "groomer brigade" will harp on this endlessly."

It's not just Fox News and "groomer brigade". Many very liberal parents have the same opinions, they just aren't being as loud.

[bear88]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 2:55pm

JasonC3 said: "What a poor choice for the playwright to make. FOX News and the "groomer brigade" will harp on this endlessly."

The playwright and producers are counting on controversy, including attacks from the right. It’s free marketing. A fictional prince wouldn’t achieve those goals. But portraying a real person, who happens to be a child, will guarantee attention, especially because it’s about the Royal Family.

While I personally would happily go the rest of my life without seeing any more movies, TV series, plays, and musicals about them, I know there is still plenty of interest.

It all just seems like such a cynical and tiresome exercise.

[Theatrefan2]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 3:06pm

This is disgusting to be honest, no other way around it.

Not only is speculating about a child's sexuality neighbouring 'countdown until their legal' territory.  But why have the community become so focused on almost witch hunting to insist people are outed, labelled etc. Imagine how any of us would feel about our sexuality being discussed and debated before we even worked it out ourselves, and in this case before he may have even thought about it.

Just because he is a royal, it doesn't mean he doesn't deserve any less respect or privacy. As a brit the British press get a bad reputation, but there is an agreement between the Palace and Fleet Street that the kids are left alone. And this has worked for the last 20 plus years. This actually goes beyond anything the press would do.

[jkcohen626]

Posted: 6/8/23 at 3:22pm

Jordan Tannahill has written plays FAR more interesting than this one. When we could be getting a Broadway production of Concord Floral, it sucks we're getting this. 

[Fordham2015]

Posted: 10/28/24 at 4:45pm

This is gonna be at Playwrights Horizons in May, the plot description doesn't mention Prince George anymore

"According to press notes, the 'meta-theatrical satire' will feature a queer, trans, and non-binary acting ensemble exploring power, privilege, and colonization by imagining a world ruled by a queer monarch."

https://playbill.com/article/jordan-tannahills-prince-f-sets-world-premiere-off-broadway-via-playwrights-horizons-and-soho-rep

[BJR]

Posted: 6/2/25 at 9:02pm

This started this past weekend. Anyone see it yet?

[RippedMan]

Posted: 6/2/25 at 10:09pm

So this changed writers completely but kept the name?

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 6/2/25 at 11:19pm

RippedMan said: "So this changed writers completely but kept the name?"

I think you should reread  because the writer is exactly the same. Go to the very first post in this thread on the very link about the current run in this thread.

[VernonGersch]

Posted: 6/5/25 at 8:38am

Friends saw this the other day and can't stop talking about it.  and now trying to actually find a ticket! 

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 6/5/25 at 4:59pm

I don't think I saw it mentioned when I bought my ticket (though I could've missed it), but I'm seeing this tomorrow and in their pre-show email they mentioned they'd be utilizing Yondr pouches, FYI.  Will report back on how the show goes!