Venus In Fur to Broadway

[Ed_Mottershead]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#1

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

[givesmevoice]

Venue In Fur to Broadway#2

Posted: 6/28/11 at 12:08pm

Oh, 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. -Kad

[Ed_Mottershead]

Venue In Fur to Broadway#2

Posted: 6/28/11 at 12:12pm

Before 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]

Venue In Fur to Broadway#3

Posted: 6/28/11 at 12:23pm

I 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!)

[uncageg]

Venue In Fur to Broadway#4

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.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[iluvtheatertrash]

Venue In Fur to Broadway#5

Posted: 6/28/11 at 12:37pm

Uncageg, some of us no longer have an edit link... Not sure why!

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#6

Posted: 6/28/11 at 1:23pm

This 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"

[theaterkid1015]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#7

Posted: 6/28/11 at 2:14pm

Ray, I was wondering the same thing. I heard Bentley was good. I'm curious to see if he returns or who comes in instead...

Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.

[WOSQ]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#8

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]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#9

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]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#10

Posted: 6/28/11 at 2:46pm

Looking forward to this..

'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'

[Ed_Mottershead]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#11

Posted: 6/28/11 at 3:04pm

Thank you, uncaged. I didn't know that I could do that. I've changed it accordingly. Thanks again.

BroadwayEd

[nomdeplume]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#12

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?

[AC126748]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#13

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]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#14

Posted: 6/28/11 at 6:49pm

She was good; the play was horrible.

David Ives is an awful writer. Absolutely awful.

[Katia2]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#15

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.

[ACL2006]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#16

Posted: 6/29/11 at 12:09am

sorry, 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.

[AC126748]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#17

Posted: 6/29/11 at 6:14am

It'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

[trentsketch]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#18

Posted: 6/29/11 at 7:57am

Wait. She's the pompous art guy's wife in Midnight in Paris? Such a funny performance.

[Vespertine1228]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#19

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.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#20

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]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#21

Posted: 6/29/11 at 3:00pm

Bentley 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.

[MiracleElixir]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#22

Posted: 6/30/11 at 12:04am

Enjoyed the play well enough, but it is INSANE for this to be moving to Broadway. Guess some producers just like losing money.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#23

Posted: 6/30/11 at 12:49am

SO excited to catch this as I missed it last time!

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

[AC126748]

Venus In Fur to Broadway#24

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