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dianaclyde
Swing
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NETWORK#1
Posted: 8/4/18 at 1:58pm

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

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thealtoslament
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NETWORK#2
Posted: 8/4/18 at 2:11pm
Please God just let the Cort renovation happen. Please.
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SomethingPeculiar
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NETWORK#3
Posted: 8/4/18 at 3:30pm

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.

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Sondheimite
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NETWORK#4
Posted: 8/4/18 at 3:31pm

I'll sell my soul for this to happen.  

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phan24
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NETWORK#5
Posted: 8/4/18 at 3:43pm
It’s definitely happening!
BroadwayBear2
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NETWORK#6
Posted: 8/4/18 at 3:50pm
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
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NETWORK#7
Posted: 8/4/18 at 5:54pm

phan24 said: "It’s definitely happening! "

How do you know?! 

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ColorTheHours048
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NETWORK#8
Posted: 8/4/18 at 6:16pm
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.
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RippedMan
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NETWORK#9
Posted: 8/4/18 at 7:28pm

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

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KJisgroovy
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NETWORK#10
Posted: 8/4/18 at 8:47pm

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. 

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dianaclyde
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NETWORK#11
Posted: 8/4/18 at 9:28pm

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.

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SomethingPeculiar
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NETWORK#12
Posted: 8/4/18 at 9:46pm

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.

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ray-andallthatjazz86
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NETWORK#13
Posted: 8/4/18 at 11:22pm

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.

"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"
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supersam1026
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NETWORK#14
Posted: 8/4/18 at 11:28pm

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

LightsOut90
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NETWORK#15
Posted: 8/5/18 at 12:57am

i would expect an official announcement in a few weeks.

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ray-andallthatjazz86
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NETWORK#16
Posted: 8/5/18 at 12:58am

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

"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"
LightsOut90
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NETWORK#17
Posted: 8/5/18 at 2:39am

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

no

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qolbinau
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NETWORK#18
Posted: 8/5/18 at 3:33am

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. 

"Rose in Gypsy was like going through therapy for me. Playing Rose helped me put a lot of emotions to bed. There was so much lacking in Rose and that's why she had to prove herself through her children. [interviewer]In ways that reminded you of your mom?[/interviewer]. Let's just say the role was very interesting for me. That one was the most interesting [I've ever played]" - Bernadette Peters (2018)
TJbruhl
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NETWORK#19
Posted: 8/5/18 at 9:42am

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
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NETWORK#20
Posted: 8/5/18 at 9:44am

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

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ColorTheHours048
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NETWORK#21
Posted: 8/5/18 at 9:45am

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.)