Those MISBEGOTTEN Producers....

They obviously will not recoup at this point, unless they extend.

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It won't recoup. Look at the facts:

1. Kevin Spacey is no longer a huge star in the US.

2. Nobody in the US (outside of a select group of theatrephiles) knows who Eve Best is.

3. It's a 3+ hour play by Eugene O'Neill, and it's not one of his easiest plays.

4. It's only playing 84 performances.

The fact that Spacey demanded the salary he did and the producers gave it to him is ludicrous.

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I'm going because of the $25 rush, and because after seeing Eve Best's Hedda Gabler in London, I'd see her in anything. Spacey still doesn't strike me as the Tyrone type. Byrne was PERFECT.

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I saw it in London. Colm Meaney (being the wily Irish guy is not a stretch for him but he does it so well) and Eve Best (not physically what you'd expect in the role, but with great awkward body language) were spectacular.

Kevin Spacey... seemed to be in some other show. The show he was in didn't seem to be a bad show, mind you, just not the same show as the other two. Their show was very realistic, while his involved lots of jazz hands and a strange overdone accent, which made the whole experience even more disconnected than one would expect.

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Updated On: 3/12/07 at 06:25 PM

If I were a student, I'd definitely take advantage of the $25 rush seats, but seeing as I'm not, I'm not in any hurry to shell out even $67.50 to see this.

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I wouldn't have seen it but they were selling seats with approximately 2 inches blocked as "obstructed view."

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Totally agree with Margo- no way I am shelling out $67 for this ! It annoys the piss out of me when producers dont offer an inexpensive ticket SOMEWHERE in the theater !!!



Loved the production with Cherry Jones... !!!

Margo, if you decide you want to see it, I am sure one of the students on the boards (including me) would be willing to buy the student rush ticket for you so you don't have to shell out $67.50.

I'll be at the first preview on Thursday, March 29th. I have never seen this play before and am looking forward to it.

It's O'Neill's follow up to Long Day's Journey into Night. James Tyrone, Sr. has been dead for a number of years, Mary has just passed away. Edmund, presumably, is off in New York writing plays (but that's never mentioned.)

The focus of the play is on Josie Hogan, daughter of Phil Hogan. Jamie, now Jim, has flirted with sobriety, but has since relapsed following Mary's death. He is in love with Josie, the supposed slut, who, given her reputation is supposedly incapable of finding true love. Phil and Josie hatch a plan to swindle Jim, but, of course, it doesn't work out. That night, after a long, drunken discussion, Jim and Josie fall in love, but realize it will never be.

Spoilers:
It is assumed that Jim dies shortly after the play's end of alcoholism.

Not one of O'Neill's best, but certainly not his worst. It's his last play before his death.

I actually think it is among O'Neill's best. After seeing a few productions of it, I think that the maturity, deftness and richness in the writing is second only to Long Day's and Iceman (and it's less repetitive than either of those two). It's certainly a superior play to either of his epic melodramas (Strange Interlude and Mourning Becomes Electra) and has a level depth and control and poetry that goes far beyond anything in his earlier, more experimental works (Emperor Jones, Hairy Ape, Anna Christie). Honestly, I think it stands with his very best.

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Eugh I saw it last night because one of my friends was working on it. It was amazingly well acted for the most part however it was about 45 minutes too long and basically at the emotional climax of the play the audience was getting restless hence ruined it. I wanted to scream out "JUST GET ON WITH IT!". Some people started to leave and at the point I thought that it was minutes away from being over alas I was sorely mistaken.

So basically, it's good but needs some serious cuts.