ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
#1ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 4/30/10 at 8:31pm
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#2ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 4/30/10 at 8:55pmNow THAT is what I call exciting news for next season.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#3ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 4/30/10 at 9:18pm
Having seen the original & seeing him in NINE, it is a great marriage. A great star in an underappreciated show.
....."Life Is What You Do While You're Waiting to Die"
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#5ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 4/30/10 at 9:43pmWhat theatre could this be in? Lyceum? Helen Hayes? Cort?
#6ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/1/10 at 1:11amSo excited! Hope the rest of the cast is just as exciting.
"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"
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
Trish2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/20/06
#8ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/1/10 at 8:56amIs there no one else who they could trust with the choreography? I mean, isn't Trujillo doing enough right now ? And very mediocre ? It seems the pickin's are slim but there has to be someone else who could do justice to this piece. Trujillo is athletic at best ( Memphis) but his work really has no style or signature. Producers just don't want to give untested talent a chance on Broadway. Just go with who's already out there. For my money I would have hired Patti Columbo who's recent work at Papermill ( Seven Brides, etc.) sizzled with style, passion AND athleticism. C'mon, bring in some new blood !
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#9ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/1/10 at 10:28amIsn't he still a little too young and hunky for the role?
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alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#10ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/1/10 at 10:33amMr Roxy, in the last revival didn't they change the lyric to that song to "Life is what you do til the moment you die" as the former was considered too much of a downer?
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#11ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/1/10 at 10:47amEither lyric is OK as far as I am concerned. I did not see the Quinn revival so only had the original to go by.
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peerrjb
Featured Actor Joined: 7/7/09
#12ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/1/10 at 12:38pm
The lyric was changed because Quinn wouldn't sing the original, stating that in his not-so-humble-opinion (by that time Quinn thought he had even written the novel) Zorba would NEVER say such a thing. Kander and Ebb didn't really agree, but acquiesced.
Banderas as Zorba strikes me as a strange, but marquee-centric choice. His arched-eyebrow urbanity may be ill-fitted to Zorba's rowdy humanity.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#13ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/1/10 at 1:02pm
"(by that time Quinn thought he had even written the novel)"
Say whaaaaaat?
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MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#14ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/1/10 at 2:35pmIsn't he about the same age Quinn was when he played it?
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#15ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/1/10 at 2:39pmBernardi was closer to the character than either Quinn or Banderas but I still think Banderas will be great as he was in NINE playing an Italian. This is why it is called acting
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Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#16ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/1/10 at 5:49pmI can only hope that Loretta Swit gets tapped to play Mme Hortense. No other living actress could do the role justice. Besides, it's time to get La Swit back on Broadway where she belongs!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#17ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/2/10 at 10:28am
Loretta Switt? Really? WTF??? Where did that come from?
Are you Loretta Switt?
How bout Chita? or Chrstene Ebersole or Liza-she's old enough..
or hmmmmm
any other ideas for Mdm Hortense?
Maria Karnilova blew me away in the original.
#18ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/2/10 at 12:16pmI saw Judy Kaye play the role in the LA Reprise production. She was wonderful.
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
#19ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/2/10 at 1:05pmLoretta Swit can't do this, she's already signed on to play Fredrika through the new year.
hazellflagg
Swing Joined: 5/19/09
#20ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/2/10 at 1:58pmTovah Feldshuh as the Chorus Leader
#21ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/2/10 at 2:02pm
I saw "Zorba" with Anthony Quinn and Debbie Shapiro back in the early 80's in LA at The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion before it went to Broadway. It was a great show.
Great news about Antonio coming back to Broadway.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#22ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/3/10 at 4:52pm
Actually, Liza and Ebersole are both inspired choices. It's a jewel of a role.
The show is one of my favorites, but it's dark, dark, dark, and almost under composed (look at the tunestack -- not a lot of material there).
I'll be there.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
Bette's Turban
Broadway Star Joined: 7/9/17
JSquared2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/17
#24ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/13/24 at 8:55pm
Bette's Turban said: "When?"
The thread is from 2010. Check back in another 14 years.
Matt Rogers
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/04
#25ZORBA starring Antonio Banderas for next season
Posted: 5/13/24 at 9:25pm
He’s about to open in They’re Playing Our Song in Spain.
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