What happened to Stephen King's "Misery" from 30 years ago with Sharon Gless ?

Would that be the same version that later starred Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf? If so, it eventually did play Broadway and is now a very popular regional and community theatre offering, especially at Halloween.

I recently read in one interview with Gless from 1993 she was very excited to be transferring to Broadway once the show ended in London. I know she said the theater they were in on the West End was rather small, which made it ideal for a 2 person play.  Maybe they couldn't find a theater small enough available on Broadway at the time ? 

 

 (I took an interest in this because I just finished her memoir, 'Apparently There Were Complaints...'. Gless  talks about doing the play, and the proposal to do B'way but then gets sidetracked on other things which were going on in her personal life at the time, and never gives a definitive answer as to what happened to the Broadway transfer). 

You saw it in London ?  Tell us more !!!! 

Yeah I'd be curious to hear about the staging. I didn't mind it on Broadway but it also felt very "Broadway" and didn't seem as "scary" as the movie.

There have been three different stage versions of the book over the years. The one that played on Broadway a few years ago was by William Goldman, and it is very close to the screenplay he wrote for the film, I think. Although it is now the version most theaters do, I think the general consensus is that Goldman’s version was still too cinematic in format and didn’t translate well to the stage (this my opinion at least, having read the script to Goldman’s play and seen the movie). The  two previous stage versions are supposedly much better, but of course people just want to see the movie onstage so I think they are rarely produced now and Goldman’s version is what is usually done now.

I thoroughly enjoyed the William Goldman adaptation that played Broadway back in 2015, but the show definitely was not scary or suspenseful... I just loved Metcalfe and the set was pretty damn impressive.