Paul Mescal (Normal People) to Star in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Almeida in Londo — Page 2

I hope they film it at least….

Transferring to the Phoenix Theatre in the West End for 6 weeks only.

https://deadline.com/2023/01/paul-mescal-streetcar-named-desire-west-end-move-gladiator-2-pause-oscars-1235239652/

If the West End transfer is scheduled to lead in to his shoot of Gladiator 2, he'll probably have a year or so before he'd be ready or able to do it in New York. It's possible, though - Wendell Pierce's Death of a Salesman had a substantial gap between when it was in London and the States.

His mother is sick right now, so maybe he would not want to come to Broadway because of personal reasons. It would be hard to be on the other side of the Atlantic when someone you love is starting chemotherapy. Especially at 26.

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Jay Lerner-Z said: "His mother is sick right now, so maybe he would not want to come to Broadway because of personal reasons. It would be hard to be on the other side of the Atlantic when someone you love is starting chemotherapy. Especially at 26."

Plus he will be filming the new Gladiator movie as well as Merrily We Roll Along.

Updated On: 4/1/23 at 02:28 AM

Was hearing rumors that this was New York bound for the fall with Mescal, Ferran, and Vasan. Does the Old Vic’s announcement of Ferran playing Eliza in Pygmalion get in the way of that? It closes October 28th so she does, in theory, have time to get to New York before the year’s end, but she’d be very busy. 

Has anyone else heard this will transfer? Heard to believe with Mescal being so busy!

They're trying for early 2024.

Robbie516 said: "Did they book a theatre?"

 

Yes but only because there was an early booking discount and no cancellation fees. I'm sure they get loyalty points as well. They won't be charged until the first preview so it's good to hold the theatre just in case the rumors turn out to be true. Breakfast isn't included.

JasonC3 said: "Just saw this today and while I loved the acting I find the director's conceptual touch to be a bit heavy-handed and unnecessary in some moments. If you thought the last production of a View from the Bridge was a bit much in that regard (I did not), this goes even further.

Seats keep popping up for sold out performances and some are less than their original pricing. Sat first row dress circle off the center aisle, 85 GBP bought a week ago.

Perfect view and the safety bar was never an issue. 90% of the staging is front and center and what happens in the margins is not critical to see clearly.

FYI: Most of the play is performed on a large centered platform about two steps up from the stage floor.

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That's Frecknall's style. Love it or hate it's hard to not be engaged by it all.

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With regards to scheduling I think we have seen especially recently if the stars wanna do it …it will happen on their end

I am ashamed to say I haven't seen a production of this before, read it or seen any filmed version so I was going in cold - but I was blown away. I am now curious to see how others stage it (and I am kicking myself that I probably could have seen Cate Blanchett in the role but never went) - I suspect like Cabaret this is a very heavy-handed directorial take on the material so you have to be comfortable with that. But the overall effect is that the tone of the show is very dark, uncomfortable, creepy and Paul is absolutely terrifying. As in, give you nightmares in your sleep kind of terrifying. It's almost relentless.

I wonder what a Rebecca Frecknall directed SWEENEY TODD with Paul Mescal would be like (if he had the voice).

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