Metcalf Headed to BRIGHTON/BROADWAY?
Metcalf Headed to BRIGHTON/BROADWAY?
#1Metcalf Headed to BRIGHTON/BROADWAY?
Posted: 2/17/09 at 7:38pm
According to ATC, Laurie Metcalf has been offered the role of Kate in the upcoming repertory Broadway production of Neil Simon's BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS and BROADWAY BOUND.
Here's hoping this casting comes to fruition. Metcalf (who still needs to do AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY) would be absolutely fantastic.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 2/17/09 at 07:38 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#2re: Metcalf Head to BRIGHTON/BROADWAY?
Posted: 2/17/09 at 7:47pmSo, just her head is coming to broadway?
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#2re: Metcalf Head to BRIGHTON/BROADWAY?
Posted: 2/17/09 at 7:52pmEvery time I see a headline with only Laurie's last name, I always brace for the worst and think the thread's about Jesse Metcalfe. Cause we all know what an epic television and film actor he is.
broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#3re: Metcalf Head to BRIGHTON/BROADWAY?
Posted: 2/17/09 at 8:23pmWow, that's fantastic. I guess that means The Quality of Life isn't happening anytime soon...
flahooley2
Understudy Joined: 6/1/08
#4re: Metcalf Head to BRIGHTON/BROADWAY?
Posted: 2/17/09 at 8:58pmand Josh Grisetti from Enter Laughing as Eugene.
#5re: Metcalf Head to BRIGHTON/BROADWAY?
Posted: 2/17/09 at 9:09pm
The producers have held extensive open calls looking for actors between the ages of 14 and 18 for Eugene, so my guess is they'll be going with a complete unknown. In fact, they've said that they're hoping this production will do for a new young actor what the original did for Matthew Broderick.
At 27, Josh Grisetti (who would probably be quite good) seems to be out of the scope of what they're interested in.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 2/17/09 at 09:09 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#6re: Metcalf Head to BRIGHTON/BROADWAY?
Posted: 2/17/09 at 9:51pmMetcalf just needs to head to the Music Box instead. She'd be brilliant as Barbara.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#7re: Metcalf Head to BRIGHTON/BROADWAY?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 1:23pm
"It?s only a rumor at this point, but The Chicago Tribune is reporting that "well-placed word" has it that Steppenwolf Theatre Company member Laurie Metcalf will star as matriarch Kate Jerome in director David Cromer's upcoming Broadway revivals of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound"
Sounds good to me!
Headlines: Laurie Metcalf May Headline Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound
Updated On: 3/24/09 at 01:23 PM
n2ny
Swing Joined: 3/24/09
#8re: Metcalf Head to BRIGHTON/BROADWAY?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 1:25pmGrisanti is playing Eugene in Broadway Bound only.
#9re: Metcalf Head to BRIGHTON/BROADWAY?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 1:48pm
I just found his PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A. It's pretty funny.
"Current show you have been recommending to friends:
None of my friends can afford to see theatre. They're all actors."
PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Josh Grisetti
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Updated On: 3/24/09 at 01:48 PM
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#10re: Metcalf Head to BRIGHTON/BROADWAY?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 1:54pm
I have a feeling Metcalf's casting is still up in the air due to her involvement with The Farm, a spin-off of The L Word she is part of at Showtime (the pilot was shot late last year, I believe.)
The network has yet to make a decision on whether or not they're picking up the show, which very well could directly effect Metcalf's availability for the fall.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
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