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| NEW CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR "A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2" ON BROADWAY | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 07:14 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| TONY AWARD® WINNER JULIE WHITE, STEPHEN McKINLEY HENDERSON, AND ERIN WILHELMI TO JOIN TONY AWARD WINNER JAYNE HOUDYSHELL IN “A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2” BEGINNING JULY 25, 2017 Producer Scott Rudin announced today that, beginning Tuesday, July 25, Tony Award winner Julie White (Little Dog Laughed), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Fences), and Erin Wilhelmi (The Crucible) will join Tony Award winner Jayne Houdyshell in the Broadway cast of Lucas Hnath’s hit play, A Doll’s House, Part 2. 2017 Tony Award winner Laurie Metcalf, 2017 Tony Award nominee Chris Cooper, and 2017 Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad will play their final performance on Sunday, July 23. Tony Award winner Jayne Houdyshell will remain with the production. Directed by Tony Award winner Sam Gold, this wildly inventive new American play picks up fifteen years after Henrik Ibsen’s most cherished work concludes. A Doll’s House, Part 2 began previews on March 30, 2017 and opened to ecstatic reviews on April 27. It went on to receive eight 2017 Tony Award nominations -- more than any other play. For tickets and info, visit http://dollshousepart2.com/. In the final scene of Ibsen's 1879 ground-breaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the shocking decision to leave her husband and children, and begin a life on her own. This climactic event — when Nora slams the door on everything in her life — instantly propelled world drama into the modern age. In A Doll’s House, Part 2, many years have passed since Nora’s exit. Now, there’s a knock on that same door. Nora has returned. But why? And what will it mean for those she left behind? The design team for A Doll’s House, Part 2 includes scenic design by Miriam Buether, costume design by Tony Award winner David Zinn, lighting design by Tony Award winner Jennifer Tipton, sound design by Tony Award winner Leon Rothenberg, hair and makeup design by Luc Verschueren/Campbell Young Associates, and projection design by Peter Nigrini. A Doll’s House, Part 2 is produced on Broadway by Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Barry Diller, Carole Shorenstein Hays, Universal Stage Productions, The John Gore Organization, James L. Nederlander, Ambassador Theatre Group, Len Blavatnik, Peter May, Seth A. Goldstein, Heni Koenigsberg, Stephanie P. McClelland, Jay Alix & Una Jackman, Al Nocciolino, True Love Productions, Diana DiMenna, JFL Theatricals, Barbara Freitag & Patty Baker, Benjamin Lowy & Adrian Salpeter, John Mara, Jr. & Benjamin Simpson, Joey Parnes, Sue Wagner, John Johnson. B I O G R A P H I E S Julie White (Nora) won the Tony Award for her starring role in the The Little Dog Laughed. For that same performance, she also won an Obie Award and a L.A. Ovation Award, and she was nominated for the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and the Lucille Lortel Awards. Other Broadway appearances include the revival of A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia, Airline Highway (Tony, Drama Desk and Drama League nominations), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and The Heidi Chronicles. Off-Broadway credits include The Understudy, From Up Here (Drama Desk and Drama League nominations), Fiction, Twelfth Night, and Bad Dates for Playwrights Horizons. Her film work includes Lincoln; Transformers 1, 2, & 3; Michael Clayton; The Astronaut Farmer; and the animated film Monsters vs Aliens. On television, she has had roles on “Nurse Jackie,” "Alpha House,” "Go On" (Gracie Award), “The Good Wife,” “Man Seeking Woman”, “You’re The Worst”, “Cavemen,” "Six Feet Under,” “Grace Under Fire,” and "Law and Order: SVU.” Stephen McKinley Henderson (Torvald) has worked on stages throughout the United States, abroad, on Broadway, off-Broadway, in television and film. Considered among the top celebrated interpreters of playwright August Wilson’s work, he received a Tony Award nomination and the Richard Seff Award for his performance as Bono in the 2010 revival of Fences with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, and later reprised the role in the Academy Award nominated film adaptation directed by Mr. Washington. His role as Turnbo in August Wilson’s Jitney earned him a Drama Desk, an Obie, and an Audelco award, as well as a Los Angeles NAACP Theatre Award and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award. He earned Obie and Lucille Lortel Awards for Stephen Adley Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Between Riverside and Crazy, in which Mr. Henderson created the leading role. His film and television work includes Manchester By The Sea; the debut season of Aaron Sorkin’s HBO series, “Newsroom”; Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln; Tower Heist; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; Red Hook Summer (A Spike Lee Joint); and Everyday People. He is a retired Professor and former Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance for the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a member of the LAByrinth Theater Company and The Actor’s Center, and is a Fox Foundation Fellow. Erin Wilhelmi (Emmy) made her Broadway debut in Ivo Van Hove's revival of The Crucible. Her Off Broadway credits include American Hero (Second Stage; Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Great Immensity (The Public Theater), Core Values (Ars Nova), and The Great God Pan (Playwrights Horizons). Her film credits include Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl; The Perks of Being a Wallflower; The English Teacher; Disconnect; Jamie Marks is Dead; and All Relative. Her television credits include "The Accidental Wolf," "The Knick, " "Taxi Brooklyn," "Eye Candy," and "Gossip Girl." She received her BFA from the University of Evansville. www.dollshousepart2.com |
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| re: NEW CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR "A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2" ON BROADWAY | |
| Posted by: Thom915 10:21 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: NEW CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR "A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2" ON BROADWAY - Official_Press_Release 07:14 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| Interesting and provocative casting but it will take a good deal of commitment on the part of the producers to keep the play running without a box office draw and without their Tony winner. I wish them success. Wasn't it posted here that Metcalfe had said she was in the show through October? Was that a misunderstanding? | |
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| re: NEW CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR "A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2" ON BROADWAY | |
| Posted by: mikem 01:03 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: re: NEW CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR "A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2" ON BROADWAY - Thom915 10:21 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| Although these are wonderful actors, they aren't box office draws. I'm a little surprised that none of the three replacements are actors known outside the theater world. | |
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| Well, now we know why Julie White pulled out of Assassins. *nmi* | |
| Posted by: Esther 09:06 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| This is AMAZING casting | |
| Posted by: JBarnet 09:17 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: Well, now we know why Julie White pulled out of Assassins. *nmi* - Esther 09:06 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| Especially Stephen McKinley Henderson. What a great actor and what a great example of "outside the box" casting. I was planning to buy a ticket for the next couple weeks, but I think I might wait now for the new cast. |
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| I wouldn't miss Metcalf. | |
| Posted by: Delvino 10:09 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: This is AMAZING casting - JBarnet 09:17 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| White is wonderful, but Metcalf's performance -- seemingly effortless -- is just a glory in and of itself. It's hers, this play, and she rules that stage. | |
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| re: I wouldn't miss Metcalf. | |
| Posted by: ryhog 11:25 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: I wouldn't miss Metcalf. - Delvino 10:09 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| I think you hit on the key with the word "effortless." I love White but I've never seen her do effortless. I'll go to see her, and I expect she will be great, but I don't think it will reach the same heights. (I'll be delighted if I am wrong, but from the perspective of "which should I see?" I think you have to say Metcalf. The one I am most eager to see is Henderson. |
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| White/Metcalf. | |
| Posted by: portenopete 12:52 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: re: I wouldn't miss Metcalf. - ryhog 11:25 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| Even in a thin(nish) comedy like THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED, I found Julie White so brittle and "on". Those aren't bad things, necessarily, for Nora Helmer, but she always takes it that much too far for me, whereas Laurie Metcalf always remained grounded emotionally even when she take moments into extreme comedy. Henderson is a great, really off-the-wall choice for Torvald: he's so different from Chris Cooper and yet like him has a quiet, gentle mien that can sometimes cover up a maelstrom of emotion. I'm not familiar with the other actress who will be replacing the divine Condola Rashad, who I hope we see again in a classic, especially another Shakespeare. (I would love to see her play Rosalind or Viola or Olivia.) |
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| re: I wouldn't miss Metcalf. | |
| Posted by: CCentero 10:39 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: I wouldn't miss Metcalf. - Delvino 10:09 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| Couldn't agree with you more. | |
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| re: This is AMAZING casting | |
| Posted by: AC126748 09:46 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: This is AMAZING casting - JBarnet 09:17 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| I am very on board with Henderson, but on paper at least, White leaves me skeptical. A little too broad, a little too big. Her default is too often very obvious comedy. If I go see it again, I will go with an open mind, but she doesn't scream "ideal Nora" on name alone. | |
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| Isn't it great? I just bought a ticket for the new cast in August . I saw the original/current cast mid- April *nmi* | |
| Posted by: Esther 09:36 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: This is AMAZING casting - JBarnet 09:17 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| re: Isn't it great? I just bought a ticket for the new cast in August . I saw the original/current cast mid- April *nmi* | |
| Posted by: manchurch03104 02:50 pm EDT 07/05/17 | |
| In reply to: Isn't it great? I just bought a ticket for the new cast in August . I saw the original/current cast mid- April *nmi* - Esther 09:36 am EDT 07/05/17 | |
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| I don't see this lasting through January 2018. | |
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