Los Angeles theatregoers can now obtain rush tickets to see Al Pacino in Oscar
Wilde's Salome. At $28 they will be
made available for each performance, for front orchestra, side-view
seats.
These rush tickets go on sale two hours prior to curtain time,
for day-of-the-performance only, and will be available only at the
Wadsworth Theatre Box Office. Cash only is accapted, and there is a limit two of tickets per person. There is no rush line-up prior to 5:30pm for evening performances and
12:30pm for matinee performances.
Salome plays 26 performances
only, April 14 to May 14, at the Wadsworth Theatre. The Wadsworth
Theatre and Box Office is located 11301 Wilshire Blvd. on the Veterans
Administration Grounds.
Al Pacino,
Kevin Anderson, Jessica
Chastain and Roxanne Hart appear in a presentation with music of
Oscar Wilde's masterpiece
Salome. Presented as it was on Broadway in
spring, 2003 by
Robert Fox,
Daryl Roth and Amy Nederlander, it is
again directed by
Estelle Parsons with original music by Yukio Tsuji.
Pacino
and director
Estelle Parsons spent nearly two years developing this
production of
Salome before bringing it to Broadway, and are now
delighted to bring it to Los Angeles. "We made the decision to mount
Salome in this way because we felt it would better serve Wilde's text,"
said Pacino. "A staged reading yields a significant style unlike any
other - it allows an audience the freedom to imagine and connect to the
play in a different way."
"A dramatic production based on the
biblical tale of lust and revenge, Oscar Wilde's
Salome draws the
audience into a decadent world of passion and betrayal.
Salome follows
the legend of King Herod and his unbridled desire for Salome, the young
daughter of his wife, Herodias. Salome, indifferent to Herod's
advances, longs for the love of the imprisoned John the Baptist. When
he rejects her, she uses her powers of seduction and manipulation - and
the Dance of the Seven Veils - to seek her revenge," state press notes.
This
production of
Salome was developed at the Actor's Studio (Estelle
Parsons, Artistic Director) and was presented at St. Ann's Warehouse in
Brooklyn (November 2002), at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in
Poughkeepsie, NY (February 2003), and on Broadway at the Ethel
Barrymore Theatre (April, 2003).
An
Irish-born English poet, novelist and playwright, Oscar Wilde was
considered an eccentric, as he was leader of the aesthetic movement
that advocated "art for art's sake" and was once imprisoned for two
years with hard labor for homosexual practices.
Salome, written
in French, was refused a license in London but, 13 years later, was
adapted by Richard Strauss into a successful opera. Translated by Lord
Alfred Douglas, it later appeared in England.
Regular tickets are $68 to $93, premium seating is also available. Call Ticketmaster at 213-365-3500 or visit
www.WadsworthTheatre.com.
