Venus In Fur to Broadway
Venus In Fur to Broadway
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#1Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/28/11 at 12:06pm
I'm more excited about this than any other announced opening, so far. I missed the OB production and am thrilled to learn that it's making it to Broadway. Could a Tony be looming ahead for Ms. Arianda?
BroadwayEd
Updated On: 6/28/11 at 12:06 PM
#2Venue In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/28/11 at 12:08pmOh, this is really exciting news, indeed! I also missed the production off-Broadway and am really looking forward to seeing it on Broadway.
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.
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Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#2Venue In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/28/11 at 12:12pmBefore anyone jumps down my throat, I KNOW it's Venus, not Venue. I guess I was so excited I let my fingers do the talking.
BroadwayEd
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#3Venue In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/28/11 at 12:23pmI adored Nina Arianda in Born Yesterday and wasn't able to see this off-Broadway so I could not be more excited. (And I like David Ives, so this should be great!)
#4Venue In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/28/11 at 12:30pm
Ed, just edit the title in your original post.
I saw her in Born Yesterday and loved her. Will definetly see her in this.
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iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#5Venue In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/28/11 at 12:37pmUncageg, some of us no longer have an edit link... Not sure why!
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#6Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/28/11 at 1:23pmThis is very exciting, I hope I get to see this. Was Wes Bentley not good in the original production or just not available? I wonder why he is being replaced.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#7Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/28/11 at 2:14pmRay, I was wondering the same thing. I heard Bentley was good. I'm curious to see if he returns or who comes in instead...
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WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#8Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/28/11 at 2:28pm
Nina Arianda just wiped the stage with poor Wes Bentley. He was not bad at all, but never came close to the force of nature that was this star-making performance. I hope they can find a co-star who can come close to matching Nina's work.
After I left the theatre, what, 15 months ago, I thought that maybe I had just seen something truly rare--that is a nobody emerging quite quickly to another level. Born Yesterday confirmed that I had.
I hope she has good career guidance and doesn't get caught in the television vortex and disappear from the radar screen. This is one talented lady.
Have you seen her work in Midnight in Paris and Win-Win? I couldn't tell it was the same woman.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
broadwayjim42
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/03
#9Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/28/11 at 2:41pm
She's quite funny in Midnight in Paris...pronounces just about every French words at least two different ways.
Putting this on my short list for January.
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#10Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/28/11 at 2:46pmLooking forward to this..
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#11Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/28/11 at 3:04pmThank you, uncaged. I didn't know that I could do that. I've changed it accordingly. Thanks again.
BroadwayEd
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#12Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/28/11 at 3:10pm
I liked the challenge of envisioning a venue in fur.
What's the set-up of the play?
#13Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/28/11 at 5:40pm
Nina Arianda just wiped the stage with poor Wes Bentley. He was not bad at all, but never came close to the force of nature that was this star-making performance. I hope they can find a co-star who can come close to matching Nina's work.
It's not Bentley's fault. It's a poorly written role, and opposite Arianda, no one they can find could match Vanda blow for blow.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#14Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/28/11 at 6:49pm
She was good; the play was horrible.
David Ives is an awful writer. Absolutely awful.
#15Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/28/11 at 6:56pm
Haha this is so weird, just five minutes ago I was listening to an old interview for when she did this show and had no idea this was transferring.
Woot, she was incredible in this. Can't think of how many times I saw it only for her acting. Also she's someone whose voice I could listen to for hours no matter what the hell she's saying.
#16Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/29/11 at 12:09amsorry, but I just don't see this play doing well. it'll be Born Yesterday, Round 2.
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.
#17Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/29/11 at 6:14amIt's being produced by Manhattan Theatre Club, a non-for-profit. It will have a limited run and grosses won't matter.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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#18Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/29/11 at 7:57amWait. She's the pompous art guy's wife in Midnight in Paris? Such a funny performance.
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#19Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/29/11 at 1:09pm
I assume Wes Bentley will still be shooting the movie adaptation of The Hunger Games, in which case I don't feel too sorry about him being passed up for this.
Any idea who will replace him? I assume they're trying for someone famous.
#20Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/29/11 at 1:18pm
Arianda is just wonderful in MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, she wipes the floor with Rachel McAdams who's such a weak link in an otherwise beautifully cast film.
I forgot Wes Bentley is attached to THE HUNGER GAMES, I'm sure he wasn't available. Good for him for getting film work again, I always wondered why he did so poorly after he was supposed to be the next big thing when AMERICAN BEAUTY won the Oscar.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#21Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/29/11 at 3:00pmBentley suffered a series of personal and substance abuse related problems. I believe there was a profile of him in The New York Times that explained the full situation around the time Venus premiered at CSC.
#22Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/30/11 at 12:04amEnjoyed the play well enough, but it is INSANE for this to be moving to Broadway. Guess some producers just like losing money.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#23Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/30/11 at 12:49amSO excited to catch this as I missed it last time!
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#24Venus In Fur to Broadway
Posted: 6/30/11 at 6:01am
Enjoyed the play well enough, but it is INSANE for this to be moving to Broadway. Guess some producers just like losing money.
Again, this production is being done by a non-for-profit theatre company as part of their subscription season.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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