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| Posted by: portenopete 07:59 am EST 02/12/20 | |
| In reply to: I don't know why people keep thinking... - MockingbirdGirl 07:50 am EST 02/12/20 | |
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| Her appearances in MOTHER COURAGE and THE SEAGULL makes me think she has a desire to play great stage roles while she is still at the height of her game. Claire Zachannassian is one of the best roles in 20th century drama for a woman of a certain age. It needs a star because Claire herself is one. This NT production would be difficult to reproduce so it might be that a new director and designer could join the team and it might be done off-Broadway. I don't see it as Park show but maybe at The Public? |
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| re: I don't know why people keep thinking... | |
| Posted by: Jackson 11:55 am EST 02/12/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I don't know why people keep thinking... - portenopete 07:59 am EST 02/12/20 | |
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| The Public would be a great choice. Kushner and Eustis are good friends. The Public may be able to bring over Manville and Weaving—certainly a coup for Public Supporters! J |
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| re: I don't know why people keep thinking... | |
| Posted by: FinalPerformance 12:11 pm EST 02/12/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I don't know why people keep thinking... - Jackson 11:55 am EST 02/12/20 | |
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| You have a point. | |
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| re: I don't know why people keep thinking... | |
| Posted by: AC126748 08:40 am EST 02/12/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I don't know why people keep thinking... - portenopete 07:59 am EST 02/12/20 | |
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Her appearances in MOTHER COURAGE and THE SEAGULL makes me think she has a desire to play great stage roles while she is still at the height of her game. Those two productions are now, respectively, fourteen and nineteen years ago. Has there been the serious suggestion of a stage return since MOTHER COURAGE ended in 2006? |
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| re: I don't know why people keep thinking... | |
| Posted by: Billhaven 09:41 am EST 02/12/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I don't know why people keep thinking... - AC126748 08:40 am EST 02/12/20 | |
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| And those were both limited runs- a month, 5 weeks? | |
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| re: I don't know why people keep thinking... | |
| Posted by: AC126748 12:43 pm EST 02/12/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I don't know why people keep thinking... - Billhaven 09:41 am EST 02/12/20 | |
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| Yup. And no matinees. | |
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| re: I don't know why people keep thinking... | |
| Posted by: mikem 08:24 am EST 02/12/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I don't know why people keep thinking... - portenopete 07:59 am EST 02/12/20 | |
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| For many years, Streep said she wouldn't return to the theater until her kids were older and out of the house. But her youngest child is 28, so that reason hasn’t been true for quite a while. Sadly, I tend to agree that if Streep wanted to do a Broadway show, it probably would have happened by now. | |
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| re: I don't know why people keep thinking... | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:45 pm EST 02/12/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I don't know why people keep thinking... - mikem 08:24 am EST 02/12/20 | |
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| I'm not saying that Streep will come back, but Paul Newman came back to Broadway in 2002 at 77, with his last Broadway appearance before that having been in 1964. Jane Fonda came back in 2009 at 71, with her last Broadway appearance before that having been in 1963. Neither had done a stage run of any length since those Broadway appearances. Newman had played a three-week run of Our Town at Westport a few months before. He and Joanne Woodward had done Love Letters for a week or two here and there and also a benefit performance or two. I think Fonda was part of a one-night reading of The Vagina Monologues, but that was about it, before her Broadway return. I was skeptical that Streep would actually do The Seagull back when it was being said that she might do it. She'd been rumored for a few other things that she didn't end up doing. Anyway, I think it's possible she'll come come back again at some point. It seems less unlikely, at least, than the returns of Newman and Fonda. |
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