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The Master Builder?
jomilo21
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The Master Builder?#1
Posted: 2/7/17 at 12:12am

Am I just crazy? I could have sworn The Master Builder with Ralph Fiennes was slated to come to Broadway like nowish but now I can't find ANY information on it... am I just nuts? 

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The Master Builder?#2
Posted: 2/7/17 at 3:27am

Probably they wanted to, but I'd guess it just didn't pan out. Happens all the time with shows that are "eyeing Broadway"

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The Master Builder?#3
Posted: 2/7/17 at 10:36am

It was just talk.  I don't think the London reviews were so rapturous that a B'way transfer could be warranted (as happened with the  McTeer Doll House). Also, besides Fiennes, the cast was lackluster.  As good as Linda Emond is, she is not a big name or an electric stage presence.  

The transfer of the Fiennes/ V Redgrave Richard III, a preferable possibility.  

 

 

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The Master Builder?#4
Posted: 2/7/17 at 10:40am

Things get announced for Broadway all the time that never happen

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The Master Builder?#5
Posted: 2/7/17 at 10:46am

The production was never confirmed for Broadway. Baz Bamigboye mentioned in one of his columns that it would transfer (with Rudin producing), but that's the extent of it.

The transfer of the Fiennes/ V Redgrave Richard III, a preferable possibility.  

Vanessa Redgrave has been in ill health for the last few years--she had a massive heart attack that nearly killed her and she has COPD--so I doubt another major Broadway run is in her future.

"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


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