ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "yyys said: "wonder if Amy Ryan has a big draw? I only know her from The Wire."
In terms of name value, I'd say she and Tyne mean almost the same. She's not selling out the place on her name alone. But she's an Oscar nominee and 2x Tony nominee who some people will recognize from TV/film roles.
Liev has always been the bigger star of this revival."
I almost always agree with you, but I actually disagree with you here. I think that Tyne was the bigger draw, in what is clearly a 'tomato - tomahto' issue. I think a lot of older people out there still think of her from Cagney and Lacy, for which she won 4 Emmy Awards, and Gypsy, for which she won a Tony after getting spectacular reviews (ironically, I did love her in Gypsy). If this board is any barometer, I got the impression that folks were a lot more excited to see her return than Liev's, who is a fine actor also.
I do wonder whether the dynamic will be different than what it would have been with Daly / Schreiber, since (to me) Ryan reads younger than she is on stage, because of the pitch of her voice. Will she need to play it differently than Daly would have??