(Buy your subscriptions now. 'Cause the Foote season is going to be remarkable, and that way you don't have to struggle to get the $20 seats which will sell out quick for ANGELS.)
I was going to say CAROLINE, OR CHANGE should really be a part of it, but since it was in NY not so long ago, I'm sure they'll present something else. As Smaxie pointed out, the article says Kushner might write a new play, though I don't see why the article specifies that Kushner won't do any new writing for ANGELS, ANGELS does not need new writing at all, it's perfectly brilliant as it is (though I assume the article mentions it since they talk about adapting the epic elements of the play to the space at the Signature). This is INCREDIBLY exciting, I really cannot wait to see the play. I don't know if they are going for no names, or for bigger names, but Frank Langella would make a wonderful Roy Cohn.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
{whining} But that's too far away!!!! {end of whining}
This is wonderful news....I'm all atwitter. (which now has a different meaning, doesn't it!)
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I'm really looking forward to attending to the plays during a marathon day. I didn't realize they were 3 hours and a half each! That's 7 hours of Tony Kushner brilliance. Cannot wait. Wouldn't mind seeing Kate Burton as the Angel, Cherry Jones as Hannah. Who would make a good Harper? It sucks that Mary-Louise Parker is too old for the part now, I'd have loved to see her reprise her magnificent screen performance for the stage.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
I hope so too, Bobby, though I'd be much happier if they indeed did CAROLINE, OR CHANGE (yes, I know it's just wishful thinking). Smaxie, I actually didn't realize that, how neat, even more reason for her to move on to Hannah in this production, I think
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
OH MY GOD! If there was every something to hide your money away for...
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
This is thrilling! I love all of the casting suggestions.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)