New play PF opening on Broadway this fall?

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

Prima Facie?

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."

Ewww. No thanks.

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).

Agreed. I find this completely gross.

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.

Interested which theater they may have managed to grab

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.

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.

This started this past weekend. Anyone see it yet?

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.

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!