Mary Tyler Moore To Return To Broadway After Nearly 20 Years

I WISH!

Why doesn't Mary do a one woman show instead of Somers? Mary's life is very dramatic as well. I think if she did a show it'd even beat 700 Sundays!

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I would want to see Mary on Broadway. I think a one woman show would be great.

I wouldn't even compare her to Suzanne - Mary has had a hell of a better career than Suzanne has.

LINES! LINES! LINES!

"Shortly before she was about to go onstage in an early preview of Simon’s latest play, Rose’s Dilemma, his wife handed her a letter from the playwright that said, among other things, “learn your lines or get out of my play.” Devastated, Moore quit."

Did everyone forget about this incident?

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Updated On: 7/22/05 at 01:41 PM

Pab,

I was just thinking that Moore probably has too many issues with memorization at this point in her life to ever do a solo show.

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Updated On: 7/22/05 at 01:50 PM

Did she have a problem memorising or was Simon just changing them too much?

I would show up just to see if she could do it without someone feeding her lines about her own life story. lol

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She is a survivor, but I doubt she'd want to relive so much pain, as her son's tragic death, 7-8 times a week. She is also more of a private person. She loses herself in her performances, so she might find opening wounds in front of strangers unseemly. As most good actors work steadily, they use the highs/lows of their own experience to play OTHER people. Interesting how often the less talented are dying to tell their own stories.

I enjoyed her immensely in the female-rewrite of WHO'S LIFE, and even in that somewhat disappointing (and rather silly) Guerney play, SWEET SUE, when she and Lynn Redgrave played the same woman. In her book, she talks about the disconnect between the two of them, in rather classy terms. They clearly did not become buddies, but Moore (if I recall) attributed it to differences in actor sensibilities and approach to the work.

I love Mary, all her risk taking work (ORDINARY PEOPLE, Mary Todd Lincoln.) But may I say how upsetting it has been to watch her age via regretable plastic surgery decisions? She's turned into a strange sort of waxy Gloria Vanderbilt look alike. Too bad, because I think she would've aged beautifully otherwise.

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my guess is the commonly constant Simon rewriting of lines was more to blame than memory...he is famous for quibbling through previews, so no one is secure as they go on with daily updates.

And as for the "draw", in that case she was much more than Simon, despite his great and well-deserved reputation. Look at 45 SECONDS FROM BROADWAY. Or the "revised" SWEET CHARITY book.

i'd rather see her in a good new play than a life story, however. Stritch, Crystal, Bea Arthur, Liza, MacLaine, even Chita...they sort of do stand-up all the time. Let them do the "story of my life as told by me in a nightclub act" routine. Other greats, much less "theatrical" in person (Barbara Cook, Mel Torme, etcetera) stick to what they do best and don't try the monolog-of-my-life approach. MTM strikes me as the latter. She's an actress, not a raconteur. Though i love her in interviews.

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Updated On: 7/22/05 at 05:10 PM

anyone who has worked on a new play or musical knows that it is very difficult and there are always rewrites--Ms. Moore has many awards and accolades on her shelf and if she can't say her lines and not bump into the furniture, then she has no business being in a Broadway show, solo or otherwise.

It was well known, around the theatre, that she was receiving prompting through a microphone in her ear.

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Wow.... someone really got my hopes up...

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me too, MOMINATOR, me too.

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She's tight, and by that, I mean her face