THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway

[Michael Bennett]

THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#1

Posted: 10/8/09 at 11:22pm

And its way over due. Hopefully, this production will suffer a better fate than the 2003 planned revival starring Hilary Swank. It appears that this production's female leads are already cast. Should be interesting.





Miracle Worker Returns to Broadway Updated On: 10/8/09 at 11:22 PM

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#2

Posted: 10/8/09 at 11:37pm

Awesome! It's such a great story.

"Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish. Want something. Want something."

Wishes come true, not free.

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#2

Posted: 10/9/09 at 12:11am

Sounds like a Blind Item on Page Six.
Who are the actresses involved?
We Want NAMES!

[Michael Bennett]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#3

Posted: 10/9/09 at 12:15am

Back in the 1990s, supposedly Jodie Foster was contemplating making her Broadway debut as Annie Sullivan. How great could that have been?

[bestinshow2]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#4

Posted: 10/9/09 at 12:16am

Elphie, looking at your avatar makes me miss Raul.

Raul for Helen Keller!!

"My name's Lenny. What's yours?"

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#5

Posted: 10/9/09 at 1:07am

That's great. I am really intrigued as to who they are getting to play the leads.

"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"

[scaryclowns2232]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#6

Posted: 10/9/09 at 1:08am

I have to imagine either Abigail Breslin or Dakota Fanning is playing Helen...

[Michael Bennett]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#7

Posted: 10/9/09 at 1:17am

They are a little old to be playing six year old Helen don't you think? They are both in their mid teens now.

[Unknown User]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#8

Posted: 10/9/09 at 8:56am

who cares? as long as it's a name. I wouldn't put it past broadway producers to cast Denzel Washington as Helen Keller.

[madbrian]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#9

Posted: 10/9/09 at 9:06am

"Hopefully, this production will suffer a better fate than the 2003 planned revival starring Hilary Swank."

The Papermill revived this last year and their Annie Sullivan (Annika Boras) had a definite Hilary Swank quality to her.

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[Michael Bennett]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#10

Posted: 10/9/09 at 11:22am

I think on paper Hilary Swank was a good choice. She apparently was just in way over her head. Annie Sullivan is an incredibly demanding role - vocally, physically, emotionally -- probably not the best choice for a film actress making her stage debut.

Minnie Driver was attached before Swank.

[Jordan Catalano]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#11

Posted: 10/9/09 at 11:24am

They'll need a real name for this show. Someone like Jennifer Garner who I hear wants to come back to the stage might be quite good in it.

[AC126748]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#12

Posted: 10/9/09 at 11:26am

Elizabeth Marvel would make a killer Annie Sullivan, but I suspect she's nowhere near famous enough to headline a for-profit Broadway revival.

"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

[cliffarico]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#13

Posted: 10/9/09 at 5:10pm

MB remember that Patty Duke as Helen was 15 when she did the movie.

[cglaid]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#14

Posted: 10/9/09 at 6:27pm

According to the breakdown released today, they're looking for understudies ONLY for Annie and Helen.

[ANNIE SULLIVAN: CAST / SEEKING UNDERSTUDY ONLY] (20 years old)

[HELEN KELLER: CAST / SEEKING UNDERSTUDY ONLY] (9-12).

[Michael Bennett]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#15

Posted: 10/9/09 at 8:19pm

I wonder if they mean twenty as in a real 20 or as in Anne Bancroft (35 playing 20). How fab would Carey Mulligan be. Of course she's booked til 2020 now with film work.

I bet it ends up being someone like Natalie Portman.

[Gothampc]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#16

Posted: 10/9/09 at 9:20pm

Clea Duvall as Annie Sullivan. She's past 30, but she's a good actress.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[Jordan Catalano]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#17

Posted: 10/10/09 at 10:10am

I love Clea. I love her to death and would pay top dollar to see her. Unfortunately though, she's not even close to being a big enough "name" for what they'll need here. They'll need someone like Anne Hathaway to sell this show.

[cliffarico]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#18

Posted: 10/10/09 at 12:43pm

So cglaid, who did get the leads?

[cliffarico]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#19

Posted: 10/14/09 at 7:41pm

So did they ever announce the leads?

[cglaid]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#20

Posted: 10/15/09 at 10:21am

Unfortunately, no names were listed on the Breakdown, sorry! I would've posted them.

[yeomansden]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#21

Posted: 10/15/09 at 10:58am

"Sounds like a Blind Item on Page Six."

A blind item about The Miracle Worker? Sorry, this just made me laugh out loud. And I'm not even sure the poster intended it...

"Are you calling me a procrastibator?" Hunter, [title of show] "Guess who's gonna get blamed for the war in Europe?" Eugene, Brighton Beach Memoirs

[Unknown User]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#22

Posted: 10/19/09 at 1:01pm

The Miracle worker will open on Broadway Feb 12th. Casting notice on Playbill.com

Helen Keller and Anne are filled. Only casting understudies.
Playbill

[somethingwicked]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#23

Posted: 10/20/09 at 3:00pm

The rumor on ATC is that Allison Pill is playing Annie Sullivan.

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

[luvtheEmcee]

re: THE MIRACLE WORKER returns to Broadway#24

Posted: 10/20/09 at 3:24pm

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who does not see the appeal of Alison Pill.

A work of art is an invitation to love.