Revival of LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL Headed for Shubert House in Fall 2009
Revival of LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL Headed for Shubert House in Fall 2009
#1Revival of LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL Headed for Shubert House in Fall 2009
Posted: 10/30/08 at 7:44pm
Via BWW:
"Variety reports that a revival of "Look Homeward, Angel" is on the way back to Broadway next fall by the producing team of Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel and Steve Traxler.
Daniel Sullivan will direct an adaption written by David Auburn. Variety notes that the show will play a Shubert house with further information to come.
Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried life is a 1929 novel by Thomas Wolfe. It traces the coming of age of Eugene Gant in the small town of Altamont, North Carolina. Eliza, his mother, is a woman who likes to make "Deals"-in business and with people. With the proverbial iron hand in the velvet glove and almost equal concern, she runs "Dixieland," her seedy boarding house, an alcoholic husband, a daughter and two sons.
Look Homeward, Angel was adapted for a play of the same title in 1957 by Ketti Frings. It opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre November 28, 1957, and ran for a total of 564 performances, closing on April 4, 1959..."
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#2re: Revival of LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL Headed for Shubert House in Fall 2009
Posted: 10/30/08 at 9:38pm
This was the play we did my senior year of high school (4 years ago) and it was one of the best plays my high school has ever done. It is so powerful and so good. In a way, i want to see this, but then again, i don't since my production is still fresh in my mind.
hope it's a good cast.
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#2re: Revival of LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL Headed for Shubert House in Fall 2009
Posted: 10/30/08 at 11:28pmYou know, this play is fine, but it has what is quite possibly the worst ending in the history of the theatre. I hope David Auburn fixed that...
Yankeefan007
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#3re: Revival of LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL Headed for Shubert House in Fall 2009
Posted: 10/31/08 at 12:04amHow's it end?
#4re: Revival of LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL Headed for Shubert House in Fall 2009
Posted: 10/31/08 at 12:39amI played Eugene last Fall...anyways we cut the ending. It was way better that way.
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#5re: Revival of LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL Headed for Shubert House in Fall 2009
Posted: 10/31/08 at 12:45amYes, someone explain the ending.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#6re: Revival of LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL Headed for Shubert House in Fall 2009
Posted: 10/31/08 at 12:52pmThere's a kind of Fantine, ghostly re-appearance of a major character. Very corny, and very unnecessary.
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Borstalboy
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#7re: Revival of LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL Headed for Shubert House in Fall 2009
Posted: 10/31/08 at 1:01pmWow! How....unexciting.
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Ed_Mottershead
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#8re: Revival of LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL Headed for Shubert House in Fall 2009
Posted: 10/31/08 at 2:14pmHow far does the Ketti Frings version differ from this version? If it's a total rewrite, would it be considered a revival? Just asking.
BroadwayEd
#9re: Revival of LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL Headed for Shubert House in Fall 2009
Posted: 10/31/08 at 4:42pmYeah, a supporting character comes back in an epilogue and basically spews cliches for five minutes. But if you cut the epilogue, it actually ends ok....still not a great play though.
#10re: Revival of LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL Headed for Shubert House in Fall 2009
Posted: 10/31/08 at 9:09pmyeah, i don;t think we had that ending. I wish I could remember now.
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
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