I think that is a HUGE assumption. This show has all the earmarks of very high quality, but not necessarily box office success. I wish them success, but I wouldn't assume that a critically successful, foreign language, arthouse film is a sure-fire hit. And despite the quality of the cast, none is a box office lock.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
That's interesting, as I would've expected a bigger name as LuPone's standby.
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