Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#0Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Posted: 7/16/04 at 2:04pm
It's things like this that make me wanna move to New York...only $25???
New Kushner Piece
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#1re: Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Posted: 7/16/04 at 2:16pmIf all of you in the area don't go to this you shall be banned from the board!
#2re: Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Posted: 7/16/04 at 2:31pmSo much for living in a free country...ironic, ain't it...
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#3re: Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Posted: 7/16/04 at 2:46pm
I applaud Kushner. I will buy my ticket.
Namo is going to PLOTZ!
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#4re: Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Posted: 7/16/04 at 6:32pm
I saw a reading of this with Marcia Gay Harden as Laura Bush a few months ago as part of an evening of Kushner one acts dubbed "Tiny Kushner" at the Schimmel Center at Pace. Kushner greeted the audience and then afterwards, Jeffrey Wright performed "East Coast Ode To Howard Jarvis" (a monologue), Ben Schenkman and Linda Emond performed a fascinating and very funny one act play called "Terminating, or Sonnett LXXV." Then, a VERY pregnant Harden did the opening scene of "Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy" (I remember reading this scene in The Nation about two years ago) in which Laura Bush reads the "The Brother Karamazov" to a group of dead Iraqi children, who speak in only bird noises. Rita Wolf co-starred as the Angel (Wolf was featured in Kushner's "Homebody/Kabul"). Harden was wonderful (and absolutely nailed a Texas accent) -- when Kushner finishes the full work, Harden HAS to play Laura. A very interesting and entertaining piece.
Mitchell and Clarkson should do fine with it. FYI -- it's not a full evening work at this point. I'd guess that it runs no more than 40 minutes or so (I suppose the roundtable will help fill out the evening).
marlomanners
Featured Actor Joined: 7/13/04
#5re: Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Posted: 7/16/04 at 7:42pm
I'm getting sick that I don't live in NYC (yet). I would SO be there. Patricia Clarkson! OMG!
And it's a benefit for MoveOn so I would pay 10X the ticket price.
...If I could afford to live in NYC of course.
Ruffian
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/16/04
#6re: Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Posted: 7/16/04 at 7:44pmI saw this earlier on PlayBill.....it looks like a MUST SEE
#7re: Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Posted: 7/16/04 at 7:46pm
Tony Kusher = genius.
The end.
#8re: Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Posted: 7/16/04 at 7:48pm
Just look at that face!
How could anyone NOT love J.C.M.?
#9re: Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Posted: 7/16/04 at 9:36pmI love John Cameron Mitchell and I love Kushner....I wish I could attend this reading!
#10re: Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Posted: 8/3/04 at 10:09am
The benefit last night was really terrific. JCM and PC were fantastic as the "First Lady" and "Angel". I definitely need to find out more information on this work.
I saw Edie Falco, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Randy Harrison in the audience.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#11re: Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Posted: 8/3/04 at 3:25pm
There's not much more to know than what you saw. That was the opening scene of a "work-in-progress." Kushner hasn't given out anymore details regarding the rest of the play. Here's the text which appeared as a cover story in the Nation last year:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030324&c=1&s=kushner
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#12re: Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Posted: 8/3/04 at 3:28pmThank you, Margo, for that link. I can't wait to read the whole thing.
#13re: Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Posted: 8/3/04 at 7:07pmI wish I was there, but I can't, give them a fine level of hell, C!
#14re: Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Posted: 8/3/04 at 7:55pmI just read the text (thanks Margo!) - it's effective and brilliant. The Nation site also mentions that performance rights will be "happily" given to anyone staging anti-war events. My college's drama society is looking for relevant, thought-provoking texts to put on; I think I'm gonna pass this on to them.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#15re: Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Posted: 8/4/04 at 2:13pm
A nice story from today's Times on Monday night's event:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/04/theater/04KUSH.html
#16re: Mitchell, Clarkson, Kushner...how can you afford to miss this??
Posted: 8/4/04 at 3:22pm
Also, in my LiveJournal I posted a couple of Salon.com articles about the reading.
It was fab imho, Kushner is a genius and I was a bit overwhelmed seeing JCM and PC. Even as a native NYer and an actor used to seeing and dealing with celebs, this was a real treat for me.
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