My Dream VIRGINIA WOOLF

[Dollypop]

My Dream VIRGINIA WOOLF#1

Posted: 12/6/10 at 8:36pm

Looking at the pictures of Steppenwolf's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? made me wish even more for another Broadway reial of this play. I'd love to see Patti LuPone as Martha, Boyd Gaines as George, Reichen Lehmkuhl as Nick and Kristen Chenoweth as Honey (I doubt that she's want to be involved in a play that has so much profanity, though)

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[Frank thebellhop]

My Dream VIRGINIA WOOLF#2

Posted: 12/6/10 at 9:13pm

Alison janney

[Dollypop]

My Dream VIRGINIA WOOLF#2

Posted: 12/6/10 at 9:31pm

Naw, LuPone will burn up the stage as Martha

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[Jordan Catalano]

My Dream VIRGINIA WOOLF#3

Posted: 12/6/10 at 9:33pm

She'd mumble her way into a great Martha, I'm sure. I still would have loved to see Lansbury get a chance to do that role.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

My Dream VIRGINIA WOOLF#4

Posted: 12/6/10 at 9:48pm

I'm seeing this production on Saturday, and am very excited. It's long been one of my favorite plays. Tracy Letts is ideal casting for George. I was a big fan of his work as an actor before he became famous for August: Osage County. I was not a fan of Bill Irwin's interpretation (Tony Award...whatever). He was waaaaay too mousey. Letts' trademark biting cynicism is more like it.

Anyway, I hate to say it, but Kristen Chenoweth is far too old for Honey now. Patti and Boyd would probably be good (if obvious) choices for Martha and George. However, when I saw the latest revival on Broadway, it was a weekend matinee and the house was like, half-full. The show had a very short run because no one came to see it. It's a brilliant piece of work, but not the kind of thing Broadway audiences want to see nowadays unless you get Meryl Streep or someone to do it. Sad.

[Dollypop]

My Dream VIRGINIA WOOLF#5

Posted: 12/6/10 at 10:21pm

Well, I can dream, can't I?

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[ggersten]

My Dream VIRGINIA WOOLF#6

Posted: 12/6/10 at 10:37pm

Well, I saw the LA production with John Lithgow (George) Glenda Jackson (Martha), Brian Kerwin (Nick) and Cynthia Nixon (Honey). Lithgow's George was not mousey. He was relatively strong - Glenda was a whirlwind.

I'd love to see David Tennant as George. If Burton could do it, then George doesn't have to be 100% american.

[Borstalboy]

My Dream VIRGINIA WOOLF#7

Posted: 12/6/10 at 10:41pm

Back in the day, I'll bet Lesley Ann Warren would have made a great Martha. And--only, ONLY if she had a director who would kick her ass--Bette Midler.

"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

[ColorTheHours048]

My Dream VIRGINIA WOOLF#8

Posted: 12/6/10 at 11:57pm

I cannot think of a better dream casting for me, personally, than Amy Morton as Martha. That woman is a force to be reckoned with onstage. Seeing it in DC in March. It's so far away :'(

[gustof777]

My Dream VIRGINIA WOOLF#9

Posted: 12/7/10 at 12:09am

right there with you Color...I almost jizzed myself upon seeing those pics!!

RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~

[AC126748]

My Dream VIRGINIA WOOLF#10

Posted: 12/7/10 at 6:31am

Lupone was one who the many performers who was invited to audition for the most recent Broadway revival. I've always wondered what she would do with the role. Gaines is an inspired choice for George.

Amy Morton is pretty much perfect casting as Martha.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body