Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
#1Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/21/12 at 11:29pm
Euan Morton has auditioned for The Baker. I think that's a great choice.
Also some news on GIANT.
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/the_public_plays_it_safe_43pnb9KEKNaW4lBB2vnNRL
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#2Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/21/12 at 11:31pm
Aw, I though you meant news about how they were going to do the giant in ITW. 
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#2Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/21/12 at 11:40pmThis news makes my heart happy.
HereIAm
Swing Joined: 2/6/12
#3Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/21/12 at 11:43pmAm I the only one who still could see Laura Benanti be Cinderella? I think she could still pull it off and I love her! Has there been any revivals where people have played the same part? (Other than Yul Brynner and people like that?)
#4Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/21/12 at 11:44pm
Riedel is unnecessarily harsh on the Public and its desire to get things to Broadway.
Papp was quite keen to have productions move to Broadway while he ran the show. The Public's productions have won over 40 Tonys, and there have been many without nominations or wins. They are able to make a great deal of money on a successful Broadway transfer, such as the Hair revival. Which THEN allows them to have works produced. They're a key sponsor of the Under the Radar Festival and regularly produce plays and musicals that wouldn't be seen otherwise.
And the news of a potential Broadway transfer for the Woods revival should not be surprising. It's already extremely buzzed about.
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#5Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/21/12 at 11:51pm
I thought they were looking "older" for the Baker, but Morton is pretty perfect for that role, he looks European fairy-tale-ish.
Missy B is too old for Cinderella ans I don't think she would go INTO THE WOODS again, one law suit and broken backbone are enough.
HereIAm
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#6Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/21/12 at 11:54pmWishful thinking I guess. I also can see Euan as the baker.
#7Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/22/12 at 12:05amBill Irwin for the Narrator, please.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
HBP
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/05
#8Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/22/12 at 12:05amoooo he would be great.
#9Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/22/12 at 12:06amThe Narrator is a child in this version.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#10Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/22/12 at 12:17amThen Bill Irwin dressed as a child.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
emilyfaye48
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/09
#11Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/22/12 at 12:19am
^^
agreed!
Without bread we'd just be hungry
but without theatre we'd be dead
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#12Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/22/12 at 1:24am
I read a rumor on another website that
Witch: Lauren Kennedy
Baker: Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Wife: Sutton Foster
#13Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/22/12 at 1:27am
Witch: Lauren Kennedy
I highly doubt that. I am sure they are likely talking to names like Catherine Zeta-Jones for that role. Or even names like Sara Ramirez.
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#14Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/22/12 at 1:37amMe too; just putting it out there!
#15Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/22/12 at 4:24amWho did Euen play in the production of two years or so back in Oklahoma (I believe?) Interestingly that version used a similar concept with a child as this one does.
#16Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/22/12 at 4:28amRiedel's criticism is ridiculous--particularly since in the same article he basically says that an attempt to put LaChiusa's Giant on Broadway IS risky...
#18Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/22/12 at 6:21am
Lauren Kennedy is playing The Witch in a different production of Into the Wood, at Baltimore Theatre Center in Maryland. Jesse Tyler Ferguson has already acknowledged that he won't be able to do this production due to his Modern Family filming schedule--though he did say that he really wanted to play The Baker.
As someone else pointed out on a previous thread, due to the production running until mid/late August, pretty much any TV name you could think of for the production (Ferguson, Ramirez, Radnor, Plimpton etc) is likely out.
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#19Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/22/12 at 6:39am
^Zeta-Jones is out she'll de doing a film around this time.
Plimpton could still be in her shows looking like it might get cancelled.
Updated On: 2/22/12 at 06:39 AM
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#20Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/22/12 at 8:13amEuan Morton played the Narrator at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre a couple years back in a production directed by Moises Kaufman.
#21Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/22/12 at 9:01amI thought the speculation was they were going for "big names."
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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HBP
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/05
#22Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/22/12 at 9:22amTina Fey as The Baker's Wife. (10 years ago?)
#23Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/22/12 at 11:33amDebra Messing as the Witch?
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#24Riedel: The Public already wants to bring WOODS to Broadway...
Posted: 2/22/12 at 12:49pmI'm excited that there is the possibility of the show retuning to Broadway.
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