#1
Posted: 1/7/10 at 4:23pm
Norbert Leo Butz to Star in ENRON on Broadway
#3
Posted: 1/7/10 at 4:25pm
Very nice. I now have some interest in seeing this!
#4
Posted: 1/7/10 at 4:28pm
Does this mean Catch me if you can isn't bound for Toronto anymore?
#6
Posted: 1/7/10 at 4:30pm
I've been interested in this play since it was announced. This is very exciting news.
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
#7
Posted: 1/7/10 at 4:32pm
The play is rather brilliant. But at 3 acts, it's just a drop too long.
#8
Posted: 1/7/10 at 4:36pm
I was already looking forward to seeing this, but wow... this is great news.
#9
Posted: 1/7/10 at 4:40pm
For me, this is DEFINITELY the best news of the week! 
#10
Posted: 1/7/10 at 4:44pm
I don't think Norbert being in this is ANY precursor whatsoever to a departure from CMIYC. The role was written with him in mind, after all. This is no different than Kerry in ROA or Wopat in SoS, they're just staying busy until CMIYC is ready.
I highly doubt Butz, Tveit, Wopat are Butler are going to miss out on being in CMIYC as they are pretty much perfect in their roles. The only one I could see not making it to Toronto/Bway is Rachel De Benedet because she is understudying Morticia in TAF, though I doubt that will be a problem come next winter. They are merely in a holding pattern, and perhaps Wopat and Butz will add a(nother) Tony to their shelves in the process. Remember, nothing happens with CMIYC until LND is done in the UK as the same director/choreographer are doing that and CMIYC.
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I highly doubt Butz, Tveit, Wopat are Butler are going to miss out on being in CMIYC as they are pretty much perfect in their roles. The only one I could see not making it to Toronto/Bway is Rachel De Benedet because she is understudying Morticia in TAF, though I doubt that will be a problem come next winter. They are merely in a holding pattern, and perhaps Wopat and Butz will add a(nother) Tony to their shelves in the process. Remember, nothing happens with CMIYC until LND is done in the UK as the same director/choreographer are doing that and CMIYC.
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#11
Posted: 1/7/10 at 4:51pm
Oh, happy day.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#12
Posted: 1/7/10 at 4:52pm
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am officially excited for this play now!
I am officially excited for this play now!
#13
Posted: 1/7/10 at 5:22pm
Awesome news! Will Enron be an open ended run?
#14
Posted: 1/7/10 at 5:36pm
Telecharge has tix on-sale through July the 18th. It wasn't specified in previous press releases (or otherwise) that ENRON was going to be a 'strictly limited engagement' - So, who knows? I cannot express how effing thrilled I am for Gould to be returning to B'way (and) one of stage heroes in the lead. What a combination!
Updated On: 1/7/10 at 05:36 PM
#15
Posted: 1/7/10 at 5:38pm
Really excited to see this now.
#16
Posted: 1/7/10 at 5:58pm
Noah Weisberg (of Legally Blonde and South Pacific) will be in this as well.
#17
Posted: 1/7/10 at 6:03pm
is there actual dialogue and a straight play to this show.. becuase one thing i read said it is all interoperated through dance.. will we really have two shows like that this year (ENRON and COME FLY AWAY)?
#18
Posted: 1/7/10 at 6:24pm
It's a play that also incorporates dance, music and video.
#19
Posted: 1/7/10 at 6:55pm
It's mostly dialogue, but you do need to remember that Rupert Goold is a bit mental and has been working closely with playwright Lucy Prebble and the amazing Adam Cork, so there is a bit of ye olde interpretive dance, and some barbershop quartet (after all, why NOT?).
Are they recasting the whole play then? From Sam West to Norbert Leo Butz! I was having a hard time picturing it, but I rather suspect Norbert will be fantastic in the role. Lucky you! :)
Are they recasting the whole play then? From Sam West to Norbert Leo Butz! I was having a hard time picturing it, but I rather suspect Norbert will be fantastic in the role. Lucky you! :)
#20
Posted: 1/7/10 at 8:40pm
Mostly dialogue? It's ALL dialogue, with a variety of interludes.
It just needs a date with a pair of pruning shears.
It just needs a date with a pair of pruning shears.
Updated On: 1/7/10 at 08:40 PM
#21
Posted: 1/7/10 at 9:56pm
The play sounds incredibly intresting and its always great to hear that Norbert is coming back to NYC.
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#22
Posted: 1/7/10 at 10:24pm
I'm guessing then NLB has little faith in "The Deep End" being picked up. Still I'm glad he gets to stretch his dramatic muscle again -with some comedic leavening no doubt. I'll have to figure out a way to see this.
#23
Posted: 1/8/10 at 2:37am
Mostly dialogue, because I'm counting the random barbershop quartet as singing. Which, unless I miss my guess, isn't usually classed as dialogue. :P
#24
Posted: 1/8/10 at 2:32pm
YEAH!
I will be devastated if it doesn't play past July 23, my first opportunity to see it.
I will be devastated if it doesn't play past July 23, my first opportunity to see it.
I chose, and my world was shaken. So what?
The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not.
#25
Posted: 1/8/10 at 7:49pm
What's "SoS" in reference to Wopat?
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