Private Lives - 2011 Broadway History , Info & More
Music Box Theatre (Broadway)
239 West 45th St. New York, NY
Considered one of the greatest comedies ever written, Noël Coward's Private Lives premiered in London in 1930 and has been produced around the world ever since; it premiered on Broadway in 1931. Glamorous, rich and reckless, Amanda (Kim Cattrall) and Elyot (Paul Gross) have been divorced from each other for five years. Now both are honeymooning with their new spouses in the South of France. When, by chance, they meet again across adjoining hotel balconies, their insatiable feelings for each other are immediately rekindled. They hurl themselves headlong into love and lust without a care for scandal, new partners or memories of what drove them apart in the first place...for a little while, anyway.
Private Lives - 2011 - Broadway Cast
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR Private Lives
An Enduring Marriage of Wit and Lust
7 / 10
The show mostly steers clear of sourness because of our awareness of a redeeming self-consciousness in Amanda and Elyot. Even when these two are going at it hammer and tongs, you have the sense of their watching themselves, on some level, and being elegantly amused by their inelegant behavior. In this version of Coward's soignée world, pratfalls are at least as important as poses.
Kim Cattrall Slinks Through ‘Private Lives’; Lewd ‘Silence’
7 / 10
Cattrall, an experienced stage actress, is easier to admire than adore as Amanda...until, that is, she starts to bellow like a shrew, which is all too often, given the explosive nature of Amanda and Elyot's love. The sophistication yields to coarseness. Quite the same is true of Gross, who never manages the suavity Elyot must wear like a dinner jacket if his easy brutishness is to be at all tolerable.
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Private Lives History
Other Productions of Private Lives
| 1930 | West End |
Original London Production West End |
| 1931 | Broadway |
Broadway Production Broadway |
| 1948 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| 1968 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 1969 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| 1975 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| 1983 | Broadway |
Broadway |
| 1992 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
| 2002 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
| 2010 | West End |
London Production West End |
| 2011 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
| 2013 | West End |
West End |
| 2021 | UK Tour |
UK Tour |
| 2023 | West End |
West End |
Private Lives - 2011 Broadway Awards and Nominations
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Kim Cattrall |
| 2012 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | 0 |
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