In fact... it doesn't BEGIN April 26th. It opens 26th. It begins previews April 14th, which means only a 10 day turn around from View from the Bridge closing. That's nuts! 10 days for a show with a massive set like View from the Bridge? This will be interesting.
Leon is probably a better choice. Parks has no directing experience of any kind to speak of--for her to make her debut with the first revival of a major American play, starring one of the most famous people alive, would probably just be setting herself up for failure.
"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
Viola Davis is about to get her some Tony! Broadway beware, this lady acts her face off! Rose's last monologue? ... Ha! I guarantee you this lady is going to TEAR it up! I have't been to NYC in a while, but I will be saving up for this one. TOO EXCITED!
Going to a musical late in its run is like going to a prostitute late in her shift.
I know what you mean, beyondblessed. I still have never experienced a more visceral reaction in the theatre than Mary Alice performing the same in the original production. At an already lively performance, the theatre went berserk.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
This is wonderful casting. I saw the Pasadena Playhouse production a couple years ago with Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett which was brilliant. It's such a great play. This is also casting made in heaven.
This may seem like blasphemy, but I actually had a hard time with the brilliant James Earl Jones in the original. His voice is so magnificent that I just couldn't get into his being a "common man".