ORPHANS to find a home on Broadway?

"Signature Theater Company and the producers Jeffrey Richards and Daryl Roth are discussing a possible transfer of the Signature production of Horton Footes last play, The Orphans Home Cycle, to Broadway in April after the current Off Broadway run at Signature, according to three people involved in the production.

Mr. Richards, one of Broadways busiest play producers, said in a telephone interview Tuesday afternoon that he was certainly interested in the possible transfer of Orphans, a three-part, nine-hour play based on the lives of Footes parents and relatives in Texas in the early 1900s.

I think its a great piece of theater, Mr. Richards said, before adding about a possible transfer: Other people are looking at it too."

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/producers-discuss-moving-orphans-to-broadway/

I hope this happens, if only because I don't know if I'll get to see it at the Signature.

I concur. Foote deserves this kind of recognition, albeit posthumously.

It sounds like a fiscal disaster.

As nice as it would be to see Horton Foote have one last hurrah on Broadway, it would be extremely difficult to make money off of this, or even keep it open long enough to matter.

>It sounds like a fiscal disaster.

As nice as it would be to see Horton Foote have one last hurrah on Broadway, it would be extremely difficult to make money off of this, or even keep it open long enough to matter.<


There are some producers I know who have produced shows knowing they'll never return a dime, but they produce them anyway because they feel the work needs to be seen. Rare, but it does happen.

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It's 3 3-hour parts.

But Angles was only two plays. (Not that that matters because I think this could be an instant "must see")