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
When Coward's Amanda Turns Cougar
7 / 10
Ms. Cattrall, to be sure, looks gorgeous, but she doesn't look 30, and the fact that the play has been recast to accommodate her age—Mr. Gross is 52—distorts it still further...Between Mr. Day's stiff-upper-lip Victor and Mr. Gross's urbanely exasperated Elyot, this 'Private Lives' is quite good enough to be worth seeing. But Ms. Cattrall's earthbound performance keeps it from taking wing, and a production of 'Private Lives' that fails to soar can't help but disappoint.
Broadway's 'Private Lives' is 'big romantic stuff'
7 / 10
Director Richard Eyre and the cast succeed in a tricky balancing act for a play written in 1930: Keep the humor, but lose much of the affected, mannered performances - all those 'darlings' and 'splendids' and Coward bon mots - that often make his plays seem frothy and insubstantial. The result, which opened Thursday at the Music Box Theatre, is funny and insightful in its attempt to reconcile the notion of marriage and sexual attraction, and yet also doesn't shy away from exploring the link between lust and violence.
Private Lives FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
I Never Realized
If You Were the Only Girl in the World
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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