"To Kill A Mockingbird" to Broadway for 2017/18 season

[jo]

"To Kill A Mockingbird" to Broadway for 2017/18 season#1

Posted: 2/10/16 at 7:07am

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/theater/to-kill-a-mockingbird-is-headed-to-broadway.html?hpw&rref=theater&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

 

Aaron Sorkin  will  write the adaptation for the theatre.

Scott Rudin will produce the play; no casting decisions to-date.

[Jshan05]

"To Kill a Mockingbird" to Broadway for 2017/18 season#2

Posted: 2/10/16 at 9:53am

I am so excited for this! One of the best novels and one of the few book to movie adaptations that actually works great! Can't wait to see who they cast!

[dramamama611]

Mockingbird#3

Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:09am

Be still my heart. My favorite novel of all time.

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[fashionguru_23]

Mockingbird#4

Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:10am

I wonder how faithful to the source material this will be. Sorkin does love to "alter" things, so it will be interesting with something that is well known, to see what he does. I don't really care for him, but I think this could be a great production for Broadway.

[Shrek3]

Mockingbird#5

Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:12am

This is incredibly exciting. 

[PianoMann]

Mockingbird#6

Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:14am

Not to mention Bart Sher is slated to direct! I loved his work with Golden Boy, so I'll be very excited to see the vision he brings to Mockingbird.

[neonlightsxo]

Mockingbird#7

Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:19am

I am so tired of Bart Sher.

[ACL2006]

Mockingbird#8

Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:22am

shows booking theaters a 1-2 years in advance is also saying something these days. Producers want to make sure their show(s) are landing on Broadway when they want them.

A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

[pupscotch]

Mockingbird#9

Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:24am

Is there anyone that can direct besides Bart Sher anymore?

[madbrian]

Mockingbird#10

Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:39am

Liev Schreiber should play Atticus.

"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

[tuckandroll]

Mockingbird#11

Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:40am

excited to see what sher does with this!

[themysteriousgrowl]

Mockingbird#12

Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:41am

 

Bryan Cranston?

 

Jon Hamm?

 

Lin-Manuel Miranda?!

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[givesmevoice]

Mockingbird#13

Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:42am

Boyd Gaines.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[BroadMagTech]

Mockingbird#14

Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:43am

Bryan Cranston would be awesome!

[Scarywarhol]

Mockingbird#15

Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:52am

Couldn't get any female creative forces for Harper Lee's book?

[madbrian]

Mockingbird#16

Posted: 2/10/16 at 10:59am

Gaines and Cranston are too old.

"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

[neonlightsxo]

Mockingbird#17

Posted: 2/10/16 at 11:23am

Scarywarhol said: "Couldn't get any female creative forces for Harper Lee's book?"

 

Preach.

[KathyNYC2]

Mockingbird#18

Posted: 2/10/16 at 11:59am

dramamama611 said: "Be still my heart. My favorite novel of all time.

 

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Me too. I can't tell you how many times I have read it (and still find something new to value each time)

[ViniFromBrazil]

Mockingbird#19

Posted: 2/10/16 at 12:26pm

Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Crudrup or Robert Sean Leonard as Atticus Finch!!!

To Kill a Mockinbird is not a popular book in Brazil but the movie is constantly on our Brazilian TCM Channel. A fun fact is that here in Brazil the movie title was translated as "O Sol é Para Todos" = "The Sun is for Everybody". Sweet.

Updated On: 2/10/16 at 12:26 PM

[nasty_khakis]

Mockingbird#20

Posted: 2/10/16 at 12:31pm

Of course, I assume Atticus will be changed from a lawyer to a male-writer who is SOO smart and funny and no one understands how smart and funny he is so he is the REAL person suffering here and presumably their mother will not have died, but will have been a woman who simply didn't have the high morals of Atticus.

[Littleshopofcarrie]

Mockingbird#21

Posted: 2/10/16 at 12:50pm

Would love to see Howard McGillen as Atticus.

[madbrian]

Mockingbird#22

Posted: 2/10/16 at 12:57pm

Attiucs is the father of two little kids.  He shouldn't be in his 60s.  Gregory Peck was 44 when the movie was released.

"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

[RippedMan]

Mockingbird#23

Posted: 2/10/16 at 1:00pm

I hope there are plenty of long hallway scenes with quick banter. 

 

And I hope he says something like "Like killing a ... mockingbird!" and there is a big flown in mockingbird. 

Updated On: 2/10/16 at 01:00 PM

[PalJoey]

Mockingbird#24

Posted: 2/10/16 at 1:01pm

 

This oughta be pretty damn good.

 

[mamaleh]

Mockingbird#25

Posted: 2/10/16 at 1:02pm

Mandy Patinkin or Hugh Jackman or Liev Schreiber would be my choices.