Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway- Page 2

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#25

Posted: 2/14/13 at 1:43pm

Ugh. I can't stand LaBeouf.

[Blockhead24]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#26

Posted: 2/20/13 at 1:21pm

Apparently Shia LaBeouf has backed out due to "creative differences"
https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/304295177198125057

[newintown]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#27

Posted: 2/20/13 at 1:24pm

Is anyone surprised? 2 actors with reputations for difficult behavior... one of them was likely to cut and run.

Interesting that ibdb identifies this as an "original" play, given that it's been around since 1983, there's a movie, and every college and amateur group with three guys has done it. Updated On: 2/20/13 at 01:24 PM

[Borstalboy]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#28

Posted: 2/20/13 at 1:43pm

This was an interesting mix of people to begin with:

Dan Sullivan, generally perceived to be one of the most laid-back directors around.

Alec Baldwin, temperamental but professional with a genuine dedication to the theater, little patience for f**k-ups.

Shia LaBeouf, chaotic, no theater experience to speak of.

ORPHANS can be a very satisfying play if done right. Baldwin seems perfect casting...hope all ends well.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[The Josh]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#29

Posted: 2/20/13 at 1:49pm

I'm interested to see who they bring in to replace him.

[newintown]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#30

Posted: 2/20/13 at 1:50pm

Remember that Jan Maxwell skated out of Entertaining Mister Sloane back in '09 because of Baldwin's hijinks. (I'm not implying that Baldwin had anything to do with L'affaire LaBeouf.)



Updated On: 2/20/13 at 01:50 PM

[ucjrdude902]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#31

Posted: 2/20/13 at 1:59pm

They've contacted Jon Groff, wanted Andrew Garfield but Spiderman put a stop to that.

[FindingNamo]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#32

Posted: 2/20/13 at 2:47pm

I hope Jan and Shia can do a production of "Legends."

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[EricMontreal22]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#33

Posted: 2/20/13 at 3:39pm

Shia has a pretty sketchy rep as well--I wouldn't lay this on Baldwin. I love the play--and have a (partly unfair) hate-on for Shia, so this makes me want to see it more.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#34

Posted: 2/20/13 at 3:58pm

Yeah, I'm gonna say it wasn't Baldwin's fault. Even if it was, I couldn't care less, I'm just glad that LaBeouf has nothing to do with this production at this point, good riddance!

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[tazber]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#35

Posted: 2/20/13 at 5:22pm

^^^^
Me too. LaBeouf skeeves me out.

....but the world goes 'round

[RippedMan]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#36

Posted: 2/20/13 at 6:21pm

Because Groff will sell tickets?

[peachesr82]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#37

Posted: 2/20/13 at 6:32pm

I said this in the other thread but I've never heard anything particularly good about LeBeouf and anyway Tom Sturridge was probably going to act rings around him, he's a really gifted little stage actor.

[everythingtaboo]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#38

Posted: 2/20/13 at 7:17pm

@thecampaignbook creative differences pic.twitter.com/d8xvV2Hr

"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008

Updated On: 2/20/13 at 07:17 PM

[everythingtaboo]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#39

Posted: 2/20/13 at 7:19pm

@thecampaignbook "acting has become a profession of the genteel class" - David Mamet pic.twitter.com/GC8AMKNs

"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008

Updated On: 2/20/13 at 07:19 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#40

Posted: 2/20/13 at 7:31pm

Is that first email a Maya Angelou poem?

[SporkGoddess]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#41

Posted: 2/20/13 at 7:31pm

Was the creative difference that they wanted LeBeouf to actually act?

Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!

[Kad]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#42

Posted: 2/20/13 at 7:34pm

Are those melodramatic, flowery emails legit?

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

[Matt Rogers]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#43

Posted: 2/20/13 at 7:41pm

A certain Post reporter is going to have a freaking field day with this one.

[tazber]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#44

Posted: 2/20/13 at 7:41pm

Highly doubtful.

....but the world goes 'round

[uncageg]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#45

Posted: 2/20/13 at 8:25pm

Jordan, I am falling out laughing.

I was not crazy about seeing LaBeouf onstage. Guess that is taken care of.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[willep]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#46

Posted: 2/20/13 at 8:25pm

They are from Shia's official twitter, so take that as you may. He also posted a link to a video of his audition for Orphans.

[Wildcard]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#47

Posted: 2/20/13 at 8:26pm

Well, those email images came off Shia's official Twitter account. I suppose as legit as that can get.

[willep]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#48

Posted: 2/20/13 at 8:46pm

NY Time says it was because of his "performance choices."

I wonder what the "disagreeable situation" was...the emails make it sound like something between Baldwin and LaBeouf...surprise, surprise...
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/shia-labeouf-withdraws-from-broadways-orphans/?smid=tw-nytimesarts&seid=auto

[EricMontreal22]

Shia LaBeouf & Alec Baldwin to Lead ORPHANS on Broadway#49

Posted: 2/20/13 at 9:04pm

"Because Groff will sell tickets?"

And Shia would? As I said, I'm no fan, but whatever fanbase he had seems to be increasingly disappeared. His last few hits have not been hits because of his name...

Those emails are hysterical. Who's Sulyboy? And I must remember to never eat steak served by Shia (ironic given his last name).