Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
#1Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/21/25 at 2:09pm
“Just in time for Tonys voting, we are thrilled to expand one of our favorite franchises into Broadway,” said Variety co-editor in chief Ramin Setoodeh. “From a ‘Succession’ reunion to unexpected meetings of legends from the stage and screen, these are some of the most engaging Actors on Actors conversations we have ever shot.”
Launching tomorrow at 8AM PT.
April 22nd - George Clooney & Patti LuPone
April 23rd - Audra McDonald & Jake Gyllenhaal
April 24th - Sarah Snook & Kieran Culkin
April 25th - Nicole Sherzinger & Jonathan Groff
April 26th - Cole Escola & Darren Criss
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Updated On: 4/21/25 at 02:09 PM
#2Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/21/25 at 2:45pm
Some random pairings, but looking forward to it!
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Broadway Star Joined: 1/19/08
#3Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/21/25 at 2:52pm
I think I would have swapped Groff and Gyllenhaal or Cole and Nicole.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#4Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/21/25 at 3:04pm
I’d like to report a hate crime for not pairing Patti with Nicole.
#5Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/21/25 at 3:05pm
WiCkEDrOcKS said: "I’d like to report a hate crime for not pairing Patti with Nicole."
I wanted Cole and Patti
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#6Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/21/25 at 3:15pm
I'm so glad they are doing this for Broadway. I'd love it if they would also do the Roundtable with (as an example) the female contenders in the conversation for the Best Actress in a musical Tony (Menzel, Sherzinger, McDonald, Jasmine Amy Rogers, etc).
This line up for Actors on Broadway is solid but I think if I were doing the pairing I would have teamed it in this way:
Jake Gyllenhaal & Patti LuPone
Audra McDonald & Nicole Sherzinger
Sarah Snook & Cole Escola
Darren Criss & Jonathan Groff
George Clooney and Kieren Culkin
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/12/14
#7Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/21/25 at 3:56pm
QueenAlice said: "I'm so glad they are doing this for Broadway. I'd love it if they would also do the Roundtable with (as an example) the female contenders in the conversation for the Best Actress in a musical Tony (Menzel, Sherzinger, McDonald, Jasmine Amy Rogers, etc)."
The Tonys roundtable that Hollywood Reporter did last year I thought was really great, would be cool to bring that back again as well, maybe for something like this
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Broadway Star Joined: 3/29/23
#9Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/22/25 at 3:21pm
George Clooney and Patti LuPone on Surviving Trump and Broadway Pay
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#10Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/22/25 at 4:04pm
Really weird pairings. Makes me wonder if it’s something to do with whoever shares agents/managers.
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#11Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/22/25 at 4:44pm
Call_me_jorge said: "Really weird pairings. Makes me wonder if it’s something to do with whoever shares agents/managers."
That’s part of what I love about these Actors on Actors videos. The odd pairings are often where the best conversations come from. Like, one of my favorite episodes ever was Kieran Culkin and Colman Domingo. That sounded like such a strange combo on paper, but it ended up being an incredible, thoughtful chat.
I’m actually really glad Variety is doing a Broadway edition. It’s one of my favorite series to binge on YouTube during Film Awards season, so I was excited to see this drop. This particular convo was just okay for me, but I’m hopeful the rest of the series will bring some great matchups.
And okay—totally speculating here—but since Patti’s a Tony voter, unless she hasn’t seen Gypsy yet, it kinda seems like she’s already backing Nicole and Sunset Blvd for Revival and Lead Actress… maybe even Smash for Best Musical? 😂 Just a few takeaways I picked up.
Edit: but Jorge, Agents, managers, and especially Publicists definitely have a say… Sebastian Stan was supposed to be involved during the most recent Oscars season but no publicist would let their client do one with him for fear of talking about Trump…
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#12Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/22/25 at 5:15pm
The Sundance Channel had a series called Iconclasts for many years and it featured unexpected pairings on any episode. I remember one of my favorites was Alice Waters and Mikhail Baryshnikov. I think the show is still available on one or more streaming services.
#13Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/22/25 at 5:22pm
I continue to be shocked every day at how much high profile exposure and love Patti is getting across all kinds of media right now including social media, the excellent roles and work she is getting at her age. Is it me or has the peak of Patti's career basically been the last 20 years? She is not washed up or faded at all.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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#14Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/22/25 at 5:27pm
Absolutely agree regarding unexpected pairings having the potential to result in interesting conversations. But as we all know, the trend today is to only talk to or be friends with people who think exactly the same way as oneself. So it doesn’t surprise me that members of this board would rather the oranges talk to the oranges and the apples talk to the apples.
#15Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/22/25 at 5:28pm
Enjoyed this overall, but they both came off out of touch. Clooney saying that matinees are full of “old people or poor people”?! Not at your show, Buddy. And Patti doubling down on her Hell’s Kitchen complaints without ever addressing that situation? Interesting.
#16Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/22/25 at 5:42pm
Out of curiosity, what would you have Patti say about the issue beyond what she said? It can only cause more trouble to address it explicitly because the people who created and create this trouble and who react to these issues in my opinion are not rational - they are essentially religious fanatics peddling superstitions under a misguided belief that they are achieving social good (also common with religious fanatics). I only just hope that a day of reckoning will come from some of those people who I think are doing more harm than good for the very causes they are trying to forward (not to mention contribute to getting Trump elected).
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 4/22/25 at 05:42 PM
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#17Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/22/25 at 5:58pm
And some of us hope for the day when you stop adding in this same comment about people hurting causes with their choices. You've mentioned it ad nauseum.
#18Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/22/25 at 6:07pm
binau said: "Out of curiosity, what would you have Patti say about the issue beyond what she said? It can only cause more trouble to address it explicitly because the people who created and createthis trouble and who react to these issues in my opinion are not rational - they are essentially religious fanatics peddling superstitions under a misguided belief that they are achieving social good (also common with religious fanatics). I only just hope that a day of reckoning will come from some of those people who I think are doing more harm than good for the very causes they are trying to forward (not to mention contribute to getting Trump elected)."
1) I’m confused about how any of this is religious.
2) I didn’t want her to bring it up at all.
#19Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/22/25 at 6:18pm
SteveSanders said: "And some of us hope for the day when you stop adding in this same comment about people hurting causes with their choices. You've mentioned it ad nauseum."
ive been posting here for nearly 20 years and you joined a month ago. Like an old dog that can’t be taught new tricks I think it’s pretty clear that as Nicole S just sung at Miscast I am what I am - I don’t know why people don’t just ignore me or block me. Unfortunately after having to put up with some crazy events through the years here, including the mentioned the Patti fiasco, the great comet fiasco, the hadestown lawsuit etc. and not one but two trump presidencies both of which I got slaughtered here for even suggesting back in 2016 that Bernie should have been the candidate and polls showed Hillary could lose, or that in 2024 I think Trump might win again in part because US progressive culture has gone mad and won’t be reasonable….well everything I have been afraid of keeps happening so it’s hard just to sit here and watch it unfold. I genuinely know it’s annoying though to some hence I offer you a solution to put you out of your misery is literally just use the block button :).
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 4/22/25 at 06:18 PM
#20Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/22/25 at 6:23pm
DramaTeach said: "And Patti doubling down on her Hell’s Kitchen complaints without ever addressing that situation? Interesting."
She does not owe anybody anything, she said what she said.
#21Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/22/25 at 6:49pm
east side story said: "DramaTeach said: "And Patti doubling down on her Hell’s Kitchen complaints without ever addressing that situation? Interesting."
She does not owe anybody anything, she said what she said."
I don’t believe she owes us anything either. That’s why I wish she said nothing.
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#22Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/22/25 at 6:52pm
Well I am glad she did.
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#23Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/22/25 at 6:53pm
If anything Clooney monopolized the conversation a little too much but he seemed thrilled to be talking to her.
Updated On: 4/22/25 at 06:53 PM
#24Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/22/25 at 9:38pm
binau said: "ive been posting here for nearly 20 years and you joined a month ago"
None of that applies to me and I have been saying for a while that you should back off. If you had any point to make, you've made it dozens of times and it's time for you to move on.
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Understudy Joined: 3/29/25
#25Variety announces “Actors On Actors: Broadway”
Posted: 4/22/25 at 10:28pm
binau said: "ive been posting here for nearly 20 years and you joined a month ago"
How long you have been posting here is irrelevant to the substance of my comment other than it only reinforces that you've been beating this same drum for a very long time. You've said your piece. It;s been heard. Saying it again and again and again makes no sense.
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