This is What a Tony Award Can Do To You! Mark Rylance (Before/After)

[EugLoven]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:16pm

JUST GOES TO SHOW YA...
GIVE A TONY AWARD TO A QUIRKY BRIT
AND THEY BECOME A HARD MUSCLE-BOUND CRAZY CASE!

(j/k)

But seriously, take a look at these photos!
I didnt even recognize him!!!

Mark Rylance (unmatchable theatre genius, former Globe Theatre Artistic Director and Olivier/Tony winner from Boeing Boeing) as Johnny Byron in Jez Butterworths Jerusalem at the Royal Court Theatre

RYLANCE TODAY


RYLANCE LAST YEAR


Learn more in Ben Brantleys (always awesome) Summer-In-England Theatre Reviews
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/theater/20time.html?ref=theater

I am so freaking jealous of his summers abroad. Just gets to swim around town soaking in the luxuries of the West End (and beyond), then break-it-down into CliffsNotes versions for us trapped on the other side of the Pond.
Updated On: 7/19/09 at 07:16 PM

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:21pm

I did a 3-week London theater binge in January and realized what I've been missing all these theatergoing years.

I'm thinking about doing it again...provided there are shows I want to see.

[EugLoven]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:24pm

If youve been reading his Postcards from London, there is PLENTY of great stuff to see:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/london-theater-journal/

A few weeks ago, he compiled his thoughts on the Musicals there (including Priscilla, Thriller and La Cage)
Updated On: 7/19/09 at 07:24 PM

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:36pm

That pic at the top is the kind of face you would see only in the background of a 1940s Dick Tracy comic strip.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:48pm

I saw a whole mess of stuff: La Cage, Sunset Blvd., Piaf, Twelfth Night, Oliver, Carousel, War Horse (act I), Edward Scissorhands and more that I can't really remember.

[blaxx]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:54pm

Why only one act of War Horse? Isn't it supposed to be the second coming?

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:56pm

The puppetry was glorious. But I found the play itself to be like watching paint dry. Granted, I had bought a standing room ticket for a 5-er. If I were sitting, I'd have stayed.

[EugLoven]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 7:58pm

Yankeefan: That list is truly enviable!!!

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:25am

Holy crap! I wouldn't have recognized him either. I hope Mark Rylance does more work on Broadway.

[Scripps2]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:51pm

See him turn in other great performances in the films Angels and Insects, and Intimacy.
Updated On: 7/21/09 at 03:51 PM

[Scripps2]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 4:06pm

"During my month in London I kept hearing "Jerusalem,"...

...fast becoming an alternative national anthem (it's even roared out at soccer games)"

Wrong. Jerusalem has been a second national anthem for donkeys' years. It's fast becoming a national cliche - that's why Mr Brantley heard it so much.
Updated On: 7/21/09 at 04:06 PM

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/21/09 at 3:17pm

Any word on JERUSALEM coming to NYC? I'd kill to see Rylance onstage again.