Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
#1Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/15/08 at 12:33am
Per Seattle Rep who will be hosting the out-of-town. Bill Irwin stars with Garry Hynes directing.
http://www.broadway2seattle.com/2008/05/godot-headed-to-broadway.html
and
http://www.seattlerep.org/SeasonPlays09/Season2009.html
Updated On: 5/15/08 at 12:33 AM
#2re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/15/08 at 12:33amWow I would love to see this staged on Broadway :)
Shows seen in 2011: Rock of Ages (WE, Shaftesbury Theatre - 7 Oct), Jersey Boys (WE, Prince Edward Theatre - 1 Sep), Cirque du Soleil: Zarkana (Broadway, Radio City Music Hall - 26 Aug), RENT (Broadway, New World Stages - 25 Aug), Hair (Broadway, St. James Theatre - 24 Aug), The Book of Mormon (Broadway *WON LOTTO*, Eugene O'Neill Theatre - 24 Aug), Dress Circle Benefit Gala (WE, Her Majesty's Theatre - 7 Aug), Derren Brown: Svengali (WE, Shaftesbury Theatre - 6 July), Lend me a Tenor the Musical (WE, Gielgud Theatre - 3 June), Lord of the Flies (WE, Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park - 2 June), In a Forest Dark and Deep (WE, Vaudeville Theatre - 31 May), Jersey Boys (WE, Prince Edward Theatre - 28 May), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (WE, Gielgud Theatre - 2 May), Priscilla Queen of the Desert (WE, Palace Theatre - 29 Apr), Les Miserables (WE, Queens Theatre - 20 Apr), Thrill me (WE, Tristan Bates Theatre - 14 Apr), Ghost the Musical (Manchester, Opera House - 13 Apr), Million Dollar Quartere (WE, Noel Coward Theatre - 5 Apr), The Lion King (WE, Lyceum Theatre - 16 Mar), The Exonerated (WE, Charing Cross Theatre - 15 Mar), The Children's Hour (WE, Comedy Theatre - 14 Mar), Clybourne Park (WE, Wyndhams Theatre - 12 Mar), Company (WE, Southwark Playhouse - 12 Mar), The 25th annual putnam county spelling bee (WE, Donmar - 2 March), Jersey Boys (WE, Prince Edward Theatre - 11 Feb), Million Dollar Quartet (WE, Noel Coward - 9 Feb), Love Story (WE, Duchess Theatre - 7 Feb), Lance Horne:First things last (WE, Garrick Theatre - 30 Jan), La Boheme (WE, Soho Theatre - 29 Jan), Legally Blonde (WE, Savoy Theatre - 10.Jan)
#2re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/15/08 at 12:48amBill Irwin is fantastic, nice scoop, Bobby.
"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"
ashbash1990
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/06
#3re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/15/08 at 12:55amI can't see it doing too well...
What a night! I was in more laps than a napkin!
#4re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/15/08 at 1:05am
Wow, and I'm watching a film (not stage) production of this in my class since it's post AP English. So weird. My teacher even said that this would probably be the only one we could watch, since she doesn't expect another production of it to pop up.
I guess I have something interesting to show her tomorrow. ;D
#5re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/15/08 at 1:18amI've always wanted to see this on the stage.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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#6re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/15/08 at 1:23amI disagree about it failing. THough it may struggle for an audience, it will likely get rave reviews with Irwin in the cast and Hynes directing.
#7re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/15/08 at 2:11am
I am so excited to see this! Yeah for being in Seattle!
Godot is in my top 5 favorite plays!
Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone and ta'en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
~Cymbeline
#8re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/15/08 at 9:20amOne of the best plays I've ever read - always wanted to see a staged production, so this is exciting!
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#9re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/15/08 at 9:28am
I really hope this comes together. Any chance to see the sublime totally magnificent Bill Irwin must be grabbed with both hands.
Bill Irwin = GOD.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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Borstalboy
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#10re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/15/08 at 10:06amThis is a great idea! Always a pleasure to see something intelligent popping up on Broadway.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Theatreboy33
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/03
#11re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/15/08 at 10:13amI saw Irwin in Lincoln center's production a few years back with Steve Martin and Robin Williams as Didi and Gogo. He played Lucky and was, of course, superb. It seems like both with current revival trends and even new plays (August, for example), we are really in a renaissance for classic golden-age theatre. And I love it.
JustAGuy
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/03
#12re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/15/08 at 10:16amIf you're a fan of Beckett, you may want to check out ENDGAME at BAM before it closes. It's a great production with a stellar cast and well worth seeing.
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#13re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/15/08 at 10:39am
"Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway"
Oh god, the possible puns.
Head exploding...
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#14re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/15/08 at 11:42am
One of my favorite straight plays ever.
I wish Irwin, Hynes and the show well 
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Jon
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#15re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/15/08 at 11:48am
One bit of really bad press release writing:
"... follows two Charlie Chaplin-esque charactersd as they wait for the mysterious title character"
The play doesn't really "follow" them, since they don't go anywhere, literally or figuratively. Nothing really happens. That's the whole point of the play. At the end, they are right where they started.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#16re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/15/08 at 11:51am
The best description I've heard of WAITING FOR GODOT:
In Act One, nothing happens. In Act Two, it happens again.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
FMills
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#17re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/16/08 at 5:53pm
Bill Irwin starring in Godot? Why hasn't this happened earlier? It's such a no-brainer. I wonder who they'll cast opposite him? David Shiner maybe?
#18re: Waiting for Godot Headed to Broadway?
Posted: 5/16/08 at 6:04pm
EponineAmneris,
Oh my dear, it's one of my favorite too, but I never figured that play as straight. (IYKWIM)
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699
Updated On: 5/16/08 at 06:04 PM
