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
