Roundabout bringing Travesties to Broadway

[DramaTeach]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 8:35am

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-Tom-Hollander-Will-Lead-Revival-of-Tom-Stoppards-TRAVESTIES-on-Broadway-20170816

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 8:50am

Huh. Maybe RTC just isn't doing a musical this year? Seems weird, but...

[DramaTeach]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 9:03am

I really don't think I'll renew my subscription if there's no musical.  Their productions, in general, are very hit or miss, and nothing is really jumping out at me aside from Skintight.  I guess we'll see.

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 9:36am

What a disappointing season for Roundabout. I was really hoping they were maybe trying to put together Kiss Me, Kate with Kelli O'Hara or something. 

[BakerWilliams]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 12:25pm

Y'all are crazy. Travesties is one of the best plays of the 20th century and is almost never produced. This is a serious reason to celebrate!

[M.O.A.I.]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 12:46pm

This board is so silly. What a great play and what amazing news!

I guess this does mean one of two things, though - either Roundabout isn't doing a musical, or Beautiful is closing soon.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 12:56pm

Just seems like Roundabout is just bringing in other productions and not putting up anything new/interesting. Was hoping for something fun or at least an off-Broadway musical.

[little_sally]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 1:27pm

I will watch Tom Hollander in anything so this is a must see for me.

[JBroadway]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 1:40pm

Tom Hollander is exquisite, but I found this production pretty disappointing when I saw it at the Menier Chocolate Factory. Won't be seeing it again in NY, unless there's someone in the supporting cast who I'm dying to see. 

[Harriet Craig]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 5:35pm

This is terrific news. I made a trip to London in March to see this (well, not just to see it, but it was the primary motivation for the trip), then came down with food poisoning the day of the performance and had to miss it.

I had been hoping for word that a performance had been taped and would be screened in US movie theaters, but a chance to see it live is even better, even if it is at the detested American Airlines Theater.

[carnzee]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 6:20pm

What do you find objectionable about The American Airlines theater? I saw Cherry Orchard there, and the theater was the only good thing about the experience. The mezzanine felt very close and I had plenty of leg room.

[Harriet Craig]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 6:30pm

I guess what I mainly object to about the American Airlines Theater is that the mezzanine (where I usually sit) isn't broken up by aisles into a center section and side sections -- it's just undivided rows of about 40 seats per row. I know that this configuration enables them to fit more seats into the theater, but I find it almost claustrophobic to be in the middle of one of those rows, and it takes forever to get out of the theater at the end of a performance. But that's probably just my weirdness, and other people may not be bothered by it at all.

[Cesare2]

Posted: 8/16/17 at 7:48pm

I usually don't pay any attention to the Roundabout -- but TRAVESTIES and TIME AND THE CONWAYS really pique my interest.  I saw TRAVESTIES when David Merrick brought it to the Barrymore in 1975 and loved it.  It's probably one of Stoppard's funniest and most clever plays, but it assumes some familiarity with James Joyce, Lenin, Dadaism, and 'The Importance of Being Earnest."  TIME AND THE CONWAYS is similar to J.B. Priestley's best known "Time" play, "An Inspector Calls."  It'll be interesting to see how Roundabout's subscribers react to these choices. 

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 8/17/17 at 9:21am

I'm not a Stoppard fan. I like to think I am a relatively smart guy, but his plays tend to fly right over my head. However, I begrudgingly saw this in London because I let my friend pick one of the shoes and it wound up being one of the best things I saw. Truly a well-done, well-made production. Its clarity was remarkable. And Marber's direction is a great deal of fun. Hollander is wonderful.

SO glad Americans will get to see this. ESPECIALLY now.

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 3/5/18 at 10:49am

Discount time!

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Save-Up-to-50-on-the-Broadway-Transfer-of-Tom-Stoppards-TRAVESTIES-20180305