Revival of LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL Headed for Shubert House in Fall 2009

[somethingwicked]

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..."

[Dre2387]

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.

[scaryclowns223]

Posted: 10/30/08 at 11:28pm

You 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]

Posted: 10/31/08 at 12:04am

How's it end?

[KQuill]

Posted: 10/31/08 at 12:39am

I played Eugene last Fall...anyways we cut the ending. It was way better that way.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 10/31/08 at 12:45am

Yes, someone explain the ending.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 10/31/08 at 12:52pm

There's a kind of Fantine, ghostly re-appearance of a major character. Very corny, and very unnecessary.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 10/31/08 at 1:01pm

Wow! How....unexciting.

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 10/31/08 at 2:14pm

How far does the Ketti Frings version differ from this version? If it's a total rewrite, would it be considered a revival? Just asking.

[scaryclowns223]

Posted: 10/31/08 at 4:42pm

Yeah, 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.

[Dre2387]

Posted: 10/31/08 at 9:09pm

yeah, i don;t think we had that ending. I wish I could remember now.