Would A Revival Of "Come Back To The Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" Work?- Page 2
Would A Revival Of "Come Back To The Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" Work?
Would A Revival Of #25
Posted: 9/4/13 at 10:39am
Forget MLP, Amanda Plummer IS the perfect Mona.
I agree...maybe ten years ago. Based on her appearance and manner as judged from The Two-Character Play, Plummer reads much older these days. She wouldn't be believable as someone in her late thirties, twenty years past high school.
MLP is slightly too old on paper (49), but she still reads pretty young.
Leading Actor Joined: 6/15/04
Would A Revival Of #26
Posted: 9/4/13 at 7:01pm
What? Sandy Dennis didn't read late thirties at all. More like early fifties.
Amd why would casting agents go by your opinion on Plummer that might not be shared by anyone else who saw it. Maybe Plummer was making a conscience acting choice.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
Would A Revival Of #27
Posted: 9/4/13 at 7:41pm
Love, love, love the movie, but the play is an overwritten bouillabaisse. Of course, Ed Graczyk went on to write....uh...
The film will be showing at the IFC Center in October.
Would A Revival Of #28
Posted: 9/4/13 at 7:47pmLet's not forget that Robert Altman really made the whole thing work as well as it does. It's high melodrama and low brow, but a fun film (and show). Would love to see another director and a top cast go at it.
Would A Revival Of #29
Posted: 9/5/13 at 9:22am
info on the upcoming IFC Center screening of 'jimmy dean...'
Fri, Oct 4 at: 11:00 AM
Sat, Oct 5 at: 11:00 AM
High-definition digital projection
“Startlingly successful translation from one medium to another, with Altman turning the first of his theatrical adaptations into a cinematic tour de force. A group of women, members of a James Dean fan club, reunite in ’75 to pay tribute to the death, 20 years earlier, of their hero while shooting Giant in the Texan desert nearby. Ed Graczyk’s play itself is a humdrum if highly enjoyable affair, gradually proceeding from its comic observations about the way the women aren’t quite friends any more to a more serious consideration of shattered dreams and saddened lives, all exposed in a gripping if familiar series of intimate revelations. But beyond the excellent performances and Altman’s evident sympathy for his garrulous gathering of beautiful losers, what marks the film is the way he uses both the camera and a wall mirror (which periodically reflects us back to ’55) to explore and open up his single dime-store set and the cracks in the masks of his deluded/deluding characters. Stunning stuff.” – Time Out (London)
PG, 109 Minutes
USA, 1982
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Would A Revival Of #30
Posted: 9/5/13 at 2:15pm
What? Sandy Dennis didn't read late thirties at all. More like early fifties.
That's 100% opinion on your part. Dennis was 44/45 when the film was shot and reads younger, to me.
Amd [sic] why would casting agents go by your opinion on Plummer that might not be shared by anyone else who saw it. [sic] Maybe Plummer was making a conscience acting choice.
What casting agents? We're discussing a hypothetical revival.
It's not an opinion that Amanda Plummer is a fifty-six year old woman who looks every day of her age, and would not be believable as someone who was in her late thirties. Sorry.
Stand-by Joined: 7/10/18
Would A Revival Of #33
Posted: 7/24/18 at 8:29amThanks for bumping this, I've enjoyed reading this thread. I'm going to have to watch this, been meaning to for years, it sounds like it's right up my alley. I love Sandy in Who's Afraid and even her brief scene in Another Woman.
Would A Revival Of #34
Posted: 7/24/18 at 8:36am
I think that with a cast made up of Madonna, Meryl Streep, Oprah, Dolly Parton, Beyoncé, Julia Roberts, and Cate Blanchett - then it might run a bit longer than the original.
Would A Revival Of #36
Posted: 7/24/18 at 9:34am
I would love it if this came back. Not sure who could hold the cast, however.
Would A Revival Of #37
Posted: 7/24/18 at 9:53am
I'm down for literally anything which can get Nina Arianda back on stage and this show at least feels like it can.
Would A Revival Of #38
Posted: 7/24/18 at 10:06am
I saw the original production, and the film has long been a guilty pleasure. That said, I'm not sure how well it would work today. It's really not a great play to begin with, and it's very much of it's time -- particularly in how it portrays being transgender.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
Would A Revival Of #39
Posted: 7/24/18 at 11:06am
I think that with a cast made up of Madonna, Meryl Streep, Oprah, Dolly Parton, Beyoncé, Julia Roberts, and Cate Blanchett - then it might run a bit longer than the original.
The play is about a 20 year reunion (taking place in 1975) of a high school women (who had a James Dean fan club) so they're all in their late 30s. All the women you listed are in their 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s.
Would A Revival Of #40
Posted: 7/24/18 at 11:16am
"All the women you listed are in their 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s."
I know! I feel like I fit in with the usual BWW casting suggestions finally!
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
Would A Revival Of #42
Posted: 7/24/18 at 11:46am
So Diana Rigg is too old to play Mona?
With all due respect, I see Ms Rigg more suitable for Sissy. I'd love to see some blind-casting and have Cicely Tyson as Mona.
Would A Revival Of #43
Posted: 7/24/18 at 12:00pmTyson would be great but don’t you think she reads too young for the role?
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