RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman in DEATH OF A SALESMAN?- Page 2
RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman in DEATH OF A SALESMAN?
#25RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted: 8/12/11 at 11:01amI don't see why it would have to close then. How to Succeed continued past the opening of Deathly Hallows Pt. 2.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#26RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted: 8/12/11 at 11:03am
Ah, right. For some reason I thought SPIDER-MAN wasn't coming out until August. He'll have to do press and they probably won't want to continue the show without him, so it probably will close right around Tony time. That would give it about a 12-week run.
But since the Lomans are being played by actors who are all a decade too young for their parts, I'm really starting to think that they should just change characters' ages in the script for this production. It is explicitly stated onstage that Willy is 63 and Biff is 34.
Just for argument's sake, Lee J. Cobb was 38 when he originated the role. Dustin Hoffman was 47, not far off from Hoffman's 44. I believe George C. Scott was mid-to-late 40s, as well.
"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
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#27RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted: 8/12/11 at 11:41am
I'm not trying to knock his acting abilities. I think he was killer in "The Social Network." When he walks in and slams the computer down: brilliant.
I just don't see this as ideal casting. I would think of someone like a young Patrick Wilson as an ideal Biff. But the idea of Hoffman and Garfield is intriguing. That seems like weird chemistry.
#28RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted: 8/12/11 at 11:47amWilson was stiff as wood in ALL MY SONS. If he were cast as Biff it would be a chief reason not to go. (Moot point, as he has a TV show next year)
"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
#29RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted: 8/12/11 at 12:18pmPhilip Seymour Hoffman has the potential to read older onstage, I think.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#30RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted: 8/12/11 at 1:36pmLinda Emond will have her work cut out for her. Who'd believe that a Linda Loman married to PS Hoffman's Willy would be at all sorry he was dead?
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#31RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted: 8/12/11 at 2:05pmGarfield is the real deal. His performance in Never Let Me Go was fantastic.
#32RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted: 8/12/11 at 2:09pm^ I felt that was the performance he deserved to be nominated for. One of last year's best films, and criminally overlooked.
"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
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#33RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted: 8/12/11 at 2:11pmAgreed about NEVER LET ME GO, sadly overlooked and unfairly dismissed.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
#34RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted: 8/12/11 at 2:16pmAnyone who doubts Keira Knightley's acting abilities should watch it.
"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
#35RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted: 8/12/11 at 2:54pm
I'm of the opinion that Hoffman is one of the finest American film actors working today, and since the first rumbles about this project, I never had any concerns about his age. It does make me curious, though, what -- if anything -- they'll do in the way of makeup for him.
But I do question the judgment -- that's right; I QUESTION YOUR JUDGMENT -- of anyone who saw "Synecdoche, New York" and still has concerns about him playing older.
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Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#36RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted: 8/12/11 at 3:46pmOthers have probably pointed this out, but PS Hoffman is older than Lee J. Cobb was when Cobb originated the role. Doesn't really matter to me, as there's no way I'm going to see it. I think PS Hoffman is among the most overrated actors around -- entirely adequate in every way, to be sure, but absolutely nothing special.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#37RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted: 8/12/11 at 4:26pm
AC, I thought Garfield's performance was criminally overlooked as well, and that Knightley also gave lovely and mature performance. This, and several other posts - including our mutual admiration for Lesley Manville and Julia Murney - make me think that, generally speaking, we have very similar tastes in acting.
Updated On: 8/12/11 at 04:26 PM
#38RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted: 8/12/11 at 5:21pmI'd say that's accurate, Henrik!
"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
#39RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted: 8/13/11 at 12:34pmHow can I become an investor in this?
romgitsean
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/08
#40RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted: 8/13/11 at 4:02pmI enjoy the Synecdoche, New York-inspired casting. Regardless, I'll be there.
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#41RIALTO CHATTER: Andrew Garfield Joins Linda Edmond & Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted: 8/13/11 at 11:07pmI'm looking forward to seeing who's cast as Happy!
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