After reading the reviews, I think the only reason I would want to go is to see Laurie Metcalf. Just curious, has Bill and Hillary Clinton attended this show and if not does anybody think they will.
yankeefan7 said: "After reading the reviews, I think the only reason I would want to go is to see Laurie Metcalf. Just curious, has Bill and Hillary Clinton attended this show and if not does anybody think they will."
I read their publicist has said they have no plans to see it.
yankeefan7 said: "After reading the reviews, I think the only reason I would want to go is to see Laurie Metcalf. Just curious, has Bill and Hillary Clinton attended this show and if not does anybody think they will."
Scott Rudin, the producer, who also knows the Clintons, sent the script in advance and invited them to a dress rehearsal with no other audience members present. (Nick Merrill, Mrs. Clinton’s spokesman, said the Clintons have “no plans to see the play at present."
“It would be impossible for an audience to watch them watch the play,” Ms. Metcalf said. “It would be tough for any of us to sit through somebody re-enacting our most private experiences on a stage, but ultimately I feel like I empathize, doing it.”
Mr. Rudin agreed: “I don’t think they’ll ever see it. If I were them, I wouldn’t see it. It’s an idea of them. It’s not literally them.”
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It would be super awkward to have them in the audience--too many people would be watching them for their reactions rather than the play. If they didn't take up the offer of a private showing, I don't see it happening.
While ultimately sympathetic to her, I dont think this a particularly kind portrait of their relationship. Its an analysis of the forces that have held her down, and one of those forces is Bill. They'd be nuts to sit through it (though I'd bet money they've been given a script to read).
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