ROCK 'N' ROLL coming to Broadway this fall!
ROCK 'N' ROLL coming to Broadway this fall!
#1ROCK 'N' ROLL coming to Broadway this fall!
Posted: 2/15/07 at 4:55pm
Yay!
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"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
#2re: ROCK 'N' ROLL coming to Broadway this fall!
Posted: 2/15/07 at 4:57pmthat pic makes me think of High Fidelity
purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#3re: ROCK 'N' ROLL coming to Broadway this fall!
Posted: 2/15/07 at 5:12pmI hope it transfers with cast intact.
"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
Luckydave14
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#4re: ROCK 'N' ROLL coming to Broadway this fall!
Posted: 2/15/07 at 5:42pmOh, I hope Sewell comes to Broadway. He was great in the Illusionist.
#5re: ROCK 'N' ROLL coming to Broadway this fall!
Posted: 2/16/07 at 3:22amYes, let's all pray that Rufus Sewell come with it. He was breathtakingly good. His scenes with Brian Cox were pure magic. While we're at it, let's hope Cox comes too.
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#6re: ROCK 'N' ROLL coming to Broadway this fall!
Posted: 2/16/07 at 12:47pmI know the work was well received by critics and awards, but how did it do at the box office? It must've done well, but everyone I know that's been to London and saw it absolutely hated it.
#7re: ROCK 'N' ROLL coming to Broadway this fall!
Posted: 2/16/07 at 1:04pmWell, the show has been extended four or five times, so it's obviously done well throughout its run. Well enough that the producers think it could be a commercial hit on Broadway. And after COAST OF UTOPIA, I think there are many New Yorkers that would see anything Stoppard does. That play has opened up a whole new audience for him.
"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
#8re: ROCK 'N' ROLL coming to Broadway this fall!
Posted: 2/16/07 at 1:06pmSewel is HOTTTTT.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#9re: ROCK 'N' ROLL coming to Broadway this fall!
Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:06pm
The play is very political with one of the leads being a Cambridge professor - Brian Cox in London - who is an unrepentent Marxist and spends a lot of time defending his views. If leftist politics are a problem for some people they could have issues with this play. Then there's the continuing exposure to the rock music of the sixties, mostly British. Pink Floyd fans will love it - others might not.
I have to say that everyone I know who has seen it loved it.
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
#10re: ROCK 'N' ROLL coming to Broadway this fall!
Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:12pmBroadway can always use a little more Cox!
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#11re: ROCK 'N' ROLL coming to Broadway this fall!
Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:36pmYAY! Another straight play on Broadway! And an original one! OOOOOH how unique!
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