L.A.T.W. to Present Miller's Man Who Had All the Luck
By: BWW News Desk Mar. 23, 2007
L.A. Theatre Works adds Arthur Miller's first Broadway play, which debuted in 1944 and enjoyed an enormously successful Broadway revival in 2002, to its previously-recorded collection of eight Arthur Miller works. Directed by UCLA Theater Professor Michael Hackett, who has directed for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Royal Theatre at the Hague; Centrum Sztuki Studio and Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw among others, and featuring Kurtwood Smith ( That 70s Show) and Tegan West (screenwriter, The Cave), The Man Who Had All the Luck gets five performances March 14 through 18 at the Skirball Cultural Center.
"Arthur Miller's lyrical, powerful and humorous fable is set during the Great Depression. Everything comes easily to young David Beeves; he seems to get everything his heart desires. But David's good fortune merely serves to heighten the tragedies of those around him, offering evidence of a capricious god or, worse, a godless, arbitrary universe. David's journey toward fulfillment becomes a nightmare of existential doubts, a desperate grasp for reason in a cosmos seemingly devoid of any, and a struggle that will take him to the brink of madness," state production notes.The Man Who Had All the Luck opened at the Forrest Theater in 1944 to less than enthusiastic reviews, running for a total of four performances and nearly convincing the nascent playwright to give up on writing for the stage. Three years later, in 1947, Miller became internationally famous when his play All My Sons debuted on Broadway. The Man Who Had All the Luck remained a relatively unknown play for over half a century. In 2000, The Antaeus Company revived it in a small Los Angeles production under the direction of co-producer Dan Fields, and in 2002 it returned to Broadway in a critically acclaimed Roundabout Theatre production directed by Scott Ellis.
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