| Who else remembers "Precious Sons," 1986, a play with new relevance? | |
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| Posted by: Delvino 08:12 am EDT 11/01/17 | |
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| George Furth's family play, produced on B'way in '86, has become a lightning rod with the Rapp accusations against Spacey. It's a particularly powerful Exhibit A in the argument that Rapp was a child, because he was hired as a particularly young looking 14-year-old to play the younger son. I remember the production well. Ed Harris and Judith Ivey were vivid, Harris wonderful, ditto William O'Leary and the young Rapp. It didn't run long, but was a deeply heartfelt and enjoyably old fashioned play, in the general Brighton Beach Memoirs mode. I don't know that it's ever revived, but it was Furth's love letter to his parents. Harris was terrific at the patriarch. Interesting about the plot, and the relevance: Rapp's character was up for the role of the newspaper delivery boy in Streetcar, a character Blanche infamously spoke of, i.e. the need to keep her hands off children. |
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| Link | STAGE: 'PRECIOUS SONS,' WITH HARRIS AND IVEY |
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