Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans

[neonlightsxo]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#1

Posted: 10/27/15 at 1:52pm

Per Hollywood Reporter

Playwright Stephen Karam will make his Broadway debut this season with The Humans, which will transfer in first-quarter 2016 with the cast of its acclaimed off-Broadway production intact.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/humans-will-migrate-broadway-834857



Updated On: 10/27/15 at 01:52 PM

[Kad]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#2

Posted: 10/27/15 at 1:56pm

Although I didn't love the play as much as others, I think it's fantastic that Karam- one of many younger American playwrights who are widely produced and lauded but have been unable to penetrate the commercial Broadway bubble- will be arriving.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[neonlightsxo]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#3

Posted: 10/27/15 at 1:59pm

Agree! The article hints that they're looking at the Helen Hayes, which would be a perfect choice.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#4

Posted: 10/27/15 at 2:00pm

Kad, you get such pleasure from Karam penetrating bubbles.

CHURCH DOOR TOUCAN GAY MARKETING PUPPIES MUSICAL THEATER STAPLES PERIOD OIL BITCHY SNARK HOLES

[Winter Garden]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#5

Posted: 10/27/15 at 2:09pm

I hope Dames at Sea picks up soon

[neonlightsxo]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#6

Posted: 10/27/15 at 2:10pm

It won't. Is that you again, Philly?

[Winter Garden]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#7

Posted: 10/27/15 at 2:11pm

who?

[ClydeBarrow]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#8

Posted: 10/27/15 at 2:13pm

I wished this happened with SONS OF THE PROPHET instead. Or in a perfect world, SPEECH & DEBATE.

"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah

[wonderfulwizard11]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#9

Posted: 10/27/15 at 2:21pm

The more I think about this play, the more I really loved it. I was hoping to see the current production once more before it closes, but if it's going to Broadway I'll have more of a chance! 

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

[little_sally]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#10

Posted: 10/27/15 at 2:22pm

It would be a good fit for the Booth.

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

[GreasedLightning]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#11

Posted: 10/27/15 at 2:25pm

Winter Garden said: "I hope Dames at Sea picks up soon

 

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At this point, it probably won't. 

Gotta love BWW's killer article titles. They pose the transfer as a question when in the source article the producer confirmed the transfer. Nonetheless, exciting news for a well-deserved playwright! I will be excited to see this again when it transfers. 

I can see this having a similar run to last season's 'Disgraced.' Respectable numbers, but with the main goal to reach a wider audience. 

[Kad]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#12

Posted: 10/27/15 at 2:27pm

This will have the good fortune to open in the spring, rather than in the fall, as well. And the slate for new plays is relatively thin.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[wonderfulwizard11]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#13

Posted: 10/27/15 at 2:29pm

Kad, I was thinking that as well- obviously more could be announced, but there don't seem to be many new plays slated for this year. 

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

[JerseyBoy25]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#14

Posted: 10/27/15 at 3:05pm

This will also be the 3rd show this season to be directed by Joe Mantello. He's got a busy spring ahead of him.

[neonlightsxo]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#15

Posted: 10/27/15 at 3:07pm

Third? Blackbird, this, what else?

[JerseyBoy25]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#16

Posted: 10/27/15 at 3:10pm

neonlightsxo said: "Third? Blackbird, this, what else? "

An Act of God from earlier in the season.

[neonlightsxo]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#17

Posted: 10/27/15 at 3:12pm

Oh right. You said "busy spring."

[Unknown User]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#18

Posted: 10/27/15 at 3:32pm

Updated On: 10/27/15 at 03:32 PM

[VintageSnarker]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#19

Posted: 10/27/15 at 4:12pm

"Agree! The article hints that they're looking at the Helen Hayes, which would be a perfect choice."

 

Poor Dames at Sea. I don't think the Helen Hayes stage is big enough for the same kind of set they're using now. I wonder what changes they'll have to make. I think all the moving around in The Humans wasn't that necessary but it did reinforce that idea that they might be in a below-ground apartment but they had two levels and a lot of space.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#20

Posted: 10/27/15 at 4:37pm

Didn't we say BLACKBIRD is being considered a revival? It was last seen in NY almost ten years ago. 

[neonlightsxo]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#21

Posted: 10/27/15 at 4:45pm

WiCkEDrOcKS, I was just naming it as something Joe Mantello is directing. I didn't say anything about it being a new play.

[AC126748]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#22

Posted: 10/27/15 at 6:09pm

I honestly think BLACKBIRD's play-or-revival status is a legitimate question mark, more so than some other recent examples (CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN, THIS IS OUR YOUTH, etc). It's not a new play, but I would imagine many will argue that it isn't well-known or produced enough to be considered an "established classic". 

"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

[broadwayrocks2]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#23

Posted: 10/27/15 at 9:04pm

Lyceum

 

[GreasedLightning]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#24

Posted: 10/27/15 at 9:08pm

broadwayrocks2 said: "Lyceum

 

 

 

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Too big. 

Fairly certain the Hayes stage is bigger than the Pels stage, VintageSnarker. No?

[asmith0307]

Scott Rudin Will Transfer The Humans#25

Posted: 10/27/15 at 9:11pm

Is it just me, or Rudin producing a ton this season? Currently he has A View from the Bridge, then The Crucible, Blackbird, Shuffle Along, and now The Humans.