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. |
