Hmm, interesting! I'm excited to see Debra Monk onstage again. And the more I think about it, the more I think Benjamin Walker could be pretty fantastic.
Wow! This cast is fantastic, incredibly electric and everybody is perfectly cast in their role. Benjamin Walker is a much better choice than someone as bland as Chris Pine, and having a seasoned stage actor alongside Johansson will bring out the best in her (it reminds me of when they got Liev Schreiber and Jessica Hecht to co-star with her in A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE). This is the must-see production of the season for me, will definitely start booking my trip to NY ASAP.
"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"
I don't know who Hinds is. I love Benjamin Walker but he seems awfully young for Brick. (I did want Goodman, too, Kad. I love him and Big Daddy is the best written role in the play.)
Walker is two years older than Johansson, I think they'll work together just fine. Hinds played the Bill Clinton stand-in character in POLITICAL ANIMALS as a Big Daddy type, a terrible choice for that show but it bodes really well for this revival.
"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"
Goodman played the role in LA several years ago, and his notices were very mixed.
"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
Wow...so this is the third revival of Cat of a Hot Tin Roof to be on Broadway in less than a decade.
I love Tennessee Williams and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I will definitely be seeing this production...but I think there are other works of his that I would rather see a revival of like Orpheus Descending, The Night of the Iguana, Small Craft Warnings, Summer and Smoke, Suddenly Last Summer or The Rose Tattoo.
Goddammit. I was totally going to pass on this because of Johansson, because I thought she was pretty bad in A View From the Bridge, but Walker is too good to pass up.