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[dianaclyde]

Another theatre board this week said Network was headed to the Cort this fall?  Any information verifying this?

[thealtoslament]

Please God just let the Cort renovation happen. Please.

[SomethingPeculiar]

Will Van Hove still have audiences eating dinner onstage for no reason?

That production looked HUGE in London, I don't know how it would fit in the little Cort.

[Sondheimite]

I'll sell my soul for this to happen.  

[phan24]

It’s definitely happening!

[BroadwayBear2]

Where do you have confirmation of this. I will be in NYC this winter and I WILL DIE if I get to witness this production.

[Stephen75]

phan24 said: "It’s definitely happening! "

How do you know?! 

[ColorTheHours048]

There is definitely interest in making this happen, but I highly doubt it’ll happen in a Broadway house. The production at the National was enormous. Although they managed to pull off the staging of Angels with some staging alterations, so who knows.

[RippedMan]

What was altered with Angels? I actually never saw Part 2 on Broadway, so curious if they did the ending the same way.

[KJisgroovy]

Is the Lyttleton that much larger than a large Broadway house? I really don't know. I'm asking! Seemed a slightly above average size when I was there... but nothing comparable to, say, the Olivier stage. 

[dianaclyde]

My friends who saw it at the National thought that Cranston was excellent, loved the way the studio was conceived  and the restaurant on stage added immensely to the experience...but there were reservations about the text.  And if anyone can camouflage a text's weakness it's Ivo with his theatrical pyrotechnics.   I'm surprised if it is indeed the Cort- Rudin must not be involved!! Though I think it's preferable to the Lyceum or the Belasco.

[SomethingPeculiar]

KJisgroovy said: "Is the Lyttleton that much larger than a large Broadway house? I really don't know. I'm asking! Seemed a slightly above average size when I was there... but nothing comparable to, say, the Olivier stage."

The Lyttelton stage is 52 feet wide (about 15 feet wider than the Cort). I think it's significantly deeper than the average Broadway house, though, because I remember interviews about ANGELS talking about how the design had to be reimagined to fit the much shallower Neil Simon stage.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

If it does happen, I hope it's not with Michelle Dockery, who couldn't be more miscast in the Faye Dunaway role. I'd love to see Cranston as Howard Beale, though.

[supersam1026]

Yup, it's happening. We'll be seeing it by the end of 2018.

[LightsOut90]

i would expect an official announcement in a few weeks.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Are they bringing the entire cast over from across the pond?

[LightsOut90]

ray-andallthatjazz86 said: "Are they bringing the entire cast over from across the pond?"

no

[qolbinau]

I personally think the physical production was too large and too distracting in hindsight. I hope if they transfer they scale it back a little and just make sure the focus is on the only reason everyone is there in the first place: Bryan Cranston. 

[TJbruhl]

It will be a National production and they Cranston will only do 7 performances a week.  First Pacino, who did rotating weeks of 7 and 6 performances; and Midler who did 7; and now Cranston.   He's the youngest!  Hope this isn't a trend.

[TJbruhl]

Left out a word.   And they say Cranston will only do 7 performances a week!

[ColorTheHours048]

RippedMan said: "What was altered with Angels? I actually never saw Part 2 on Broadway, so curious if they did the ending the same way."

The stage at the National is much wider and deeper, resulting in some altered design elements and some tricky backstage choreography for entrances/exits. (Specifically, they couldn’t pull the set from the top of part 2 all the way back and offstage on Broadway in the way they did in London.)