I definitely thought Jack Nicholson had joined August: Osage County...
I definitely thought Jack Nicholson had joined August: Osage County...
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#1I definitely thought Jack Nicholson had joined August: Osage County...
Posted: 10/4/12 at 1:40amAlright, am I the only one who got very confused by that headline?
#2I definitely thought Jack Nicholson had joined August: Osage County...
Posted: 10/4/12 at 1:47am
Nope..I checked the link just in case, haha.
How big is this cast :S. I don't remember the play having so many cast members. It seems like every day someone new is joining.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#2I definitely thought Jack Nicholson had joined August: Osage County...
Posted: 10/4/12 at 1:57amI thought so too... Misleading.
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#3I definitely thought Jack Nicholson had joined August: Osage County...
Posted: 10/4/12 at 3:17amMisleading yes, but to tell you the truth Jack Nicholson would have been a more interesting Beverly than Sam Shepard.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#4I definitely thought Jack Nicholson had joined August: Osage County...
Posted: 10/4/12 at 8:24am
Bobs3, really? Shepard seems definitive to me.
The play has a very large cast and almost all the roles are substantial.
#5I definitely thought Jack Nicholson had joined August: Osage County...
Posted: 10/4/12 at 8:39amSo the entire film is cast now, right? I hope Julia Roberts can pull off Barbara. Amy Morton was amazing.
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#6I definitely thought Jack Nicholson had joined August: Osage County...
Posted: 10/4/12 at 9:09am
I believe that anytime Jack Nicholson plays a role it is definitive.
In THE DEPARTED, Frank Costello (based on Whitey Bugler) in another actor's hands would have been a routine performance in a routine role, Nicholson took it to another level.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#7I definitely thought Jack Nicholson had joined August: Osage County...
Posted: 10/4/12 at 10:27amYou're so right about Nicholson. I just think if ever there was a part tailor made for Shepard, it's Beverly Weston. If it were a larger part, the similarities between Shepard and Weston might prove to be boring, but as Beverly is a one scene part the stunt casting works well for me. Both aging serious writers. And his long time love, with whom he's recently called it quits, is the woman who should be playing his wife in the movie imho, with whom he's about to call it, and life, quits with.
bobs3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/12
#8I definitely thought Jack Nicholson had joined August: Osage County...
Posted: 10/4/12 at 10:49amJack Nicholson is GREAT. When I saw THERE WILL BE BLOOD and I don't mean to take anything away from Daniel Day Lewis' brilliant performance but I couldn't help but think if this movie had been made 30 years ago, Jack Nicholson would have been an amazing Daniel.
