1984 coming to Broadway!
1984 coming to Broadway!
#11984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/2/17 at 6:49pm
http://www.vulture.com/2017/02/londons-1984-is-coming-to-broadway-just-in-time-for-2017.html
At the Hudson, perfs start June 22nd.
#21984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/2/17 at 7:37pm
VERY timely.
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#31984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/2/17 at 8:37pm
Pretty sure this was the same production that was at the ART last year. It was pretty intense.
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ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#41984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/2/17 at 8:56pm
The London show sold tickets for 19.84 pounds. Will the US show do the same?
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#51984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/2/17 at 9:08pm
Sonia Friedman seems to be pretty committed to keeping her shows accessible, so it would not surprise me if they do keep some of the tickets priced at $19.84 (maybe the rush or lotto price?).
ryankon
Chorus Member Joined: 9/6/11
#61984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/2/17 at 11:49pm
While the idea of bringing this at this moment in time is great, having seen this production it's hugely disappointing. Brutal, yes. But oddly hollow and unsatisfying.
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#81984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/3/17 at 7:07am
I saw this in London as well. Hard to say whether I think it was objectively good, but it was damn effective. Unsettling and brutal. It might have been a mistake to sit in the front row for this one. It's really an assault on the senses. Happy to see they're re-casting, as I didn't love the west end cast.
#91984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/3/17 at 10:13am
Will this just be like a live broadcast of White House / Congress?
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TigerBait88
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#101984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/4/17 at 5:42pm
So I assume this is a play not a musical? Saw a couple major outlets reporting the production as a musical so just wanted to get clarification.
#111984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/4/17 at 7:03pm
TigerBait88 said: "So I assume this is a play not a musical? Saw a couple major outlets reporting the production as a musical so just wanted to get clarification. "
That's correct. It's a play.
#121984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 2/5/17 at 2:15am
Saw it in London, and didn't really like parts where the action is played out on the screens.
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#131984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 4/3/17 at 10:18am
Casting announced.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-News-Tom-SturridgeOlivia-Wilde-Reed-Birney-Will-Lead-1984-on-Broadway-20170403
#141984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 4/3/17 at 10:33am
Well, I just got significantly more interested in this production.
"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."
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#151984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 4/3/17 at 10:37am
The show intrigued me. Sturridge got me to buy a ticket.
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#171984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 4/3/17 at 10:42am
I adored Tom Sturridge in Orphans so this is now a must-see for me.
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#181984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 4/3/17 at 3:22pm
If 1984 had opened a bit earlier, Wilde/Sudeikis and Smulders/Killam would be two real-life married couples in professional NYC theatre productions all at the same time!
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#191984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 4/3/17 at 3:24pm
Ado Annie D'Ysquith said: "If 1984 had opened a bit earlier, Wilde/Sudeikis and Smulders/Killam would be two real-life married couples in professional NYC theatre productions all at the same time!
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There are lots of married/partnered couples in concurrently running shows.
"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
#201984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 4/3/17 at 3:27pm
I figured, but I guess I was thinking more along the lines of "Hollywood" couples. All four of the people I mentioned have played major roles in movies/television.
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#211984 coming to Broadway!
Posted: 4/6/17 at 12:31am
Sonia Friedman and Robert Icke sat in front of me at Sunday In The Park With George tonight. They must be casing the joint.
