WIT on Broadway with Nixon

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 12:03pm

Cynthia Nixon to take WIT to Broadway with MTC:

http://www.broadway.com/buzz/157109/cynthia-nixon-to-star-in-mtcs-broadway-premiere-of-pulitzer-prize-winner-wit/

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 12:10pm

I think it's a beautiful play and she's really talented, so it could all work out great.

[Sauja]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 12:44pm

While I'm actually thrilled to get the opportunity to see this and How I Learned to Drive this season, I'm mildly horrified that shows that debuted when I was becoming a regular theatergoer are already being revived. Has it really been 13 and 15 years collectively? Pretty soon I'll just be telling people that the original was vastly superior whether or not it's true just so that I don't feel as bad about aging.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 1:08pm

I don't think this show is for a Broadway house. If they are going to revive it, I would rather see it in an intimate theater.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 1:09pm

Wait til it starts to feel like the day after the original production closed.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 1:16pm

I hope they film it an release it in 3D.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 1:52pm

No one else may want to admit it, but I can't be the only person for whom this thread hasn't been the biggest disappointment of their day.

But I guess if they couldn't get him for FROST/NIXON, hoping they'd get him for this is just wishful thinking.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 2:01pm

Wait, what?

[jayinchelsea]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 2:07pm

Think it's great, it's a terrific play and Cynthia Nixon could be brilliant.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 3:14pm

An okay play about a mean bitch who dies of cancer. Like EVITA, but with John Donne.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 4:01pm

A truly great play. Nixon doesn't seem the most inspired choice to me (although Dick Nixon might have been wonderful, myster!), but who knows? She might be great.

Eve Best would have been my first choice.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 5:03pm

Move it off-Broadway, find a really inspired director and let Jane Lynch have a go at it.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 5:08pm

Why do you keep saying, 'Move it off-Broadway?' I think this play can easily stand the move to Broadway. In fact, I think it should have moved in its original incarnation.

But I do LOVE your suggestion of Jane Lynch.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 5:13pm

He is not a crook nor an actor.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 5:22pm

This sounds wonderful!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 5:24pm

"Why do you keep saying, 'Move it off-Broadway?'"

Because when the audience for this play is in a large auditorium, the audience just become spectators. An intimate theater brings the audience closer to the action and makes them more participants.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 5:25pm

Cynthia Nixon and Kim Cattrall on Broadway at the same time! Now we just need to get Kristin Davis in PORGY AND BESS and Sarah Jessica Parker in WAR HORSE and the set will be complete!

[adamgreer]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 6:01pm

Jordan, I love you.

[AC126748]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 6:07pm

The Samuel Friedman Theatre is only 650 seats and very intimate. It will play just fine there.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 6:12pm

I was a member of the audience when I saw Wit. I was a participant at Sleep No More.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 6:13pm

I wish WIT could be an experience like SLEEP NO MORE. If any play calls for it, it's WIT.

[AC126748]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 6:14pm

Pre-show paps?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 6:26pm

Getting up close and personal during the exams sounds like a dream for any true SEX AND THE CITY fan.

[JayKurnitz]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 10:26pm

Roscoe - if that's truly all you got out of this amazing piece, I will certainly be taking your opinion with a grain of salt from now on.

[donte7162004]

Posted: 7/20/11 at 10:45pm

Sarah Jessica Parker in WAR HORSE......that just made my night.