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Post by zahidf on Aug 17, 2018 11:00:04 GMT
With Bill Pullman and Sally Field
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Post by Rory on Aug 17, 2018 11:53:28 GMT
I've never seen it and would love to.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 12:05:40 GMT
Nice cast of a great play. Also Herrin and Headlong I'm all over this like a...well a thing that's all over it.
Loved a certain ex WOS journalist throwing some shade on a Daily Fail one this morning....apparently this is a 'yawn' of a production?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 12:29:48 GMT
But will we like it? Will we really like it?
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Post by princeton on Aug 17, 2018 13:09:15 GMT
Baz B seems to have awarded both Sally Field and Bill Pullman Tony Awards - the American Theatre Wing doesn't seem to be of the same view! Both nominated - neither has won. Or maybe he has the power to see into the future.
Looking forward to seeing this - Tony Award winners or not.
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 17, 2018 13:20:29 GMT
Oddly enough I was only thinking it is time for the Old Vic to do an American classic play only this morning, after the sell out success of The Crucible, also A View From the Bridge, Cat On A hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire and Summer and Smoke have all done well for the Young Vic and Almeida.
Be excellent if someone did Eugene O'Neil's Mouring Comes Electra, The Iceman Cometh and Tennessee William's Night of the Iguana. paging the National as well.
Saying that All My Sons is a terrific play and David Suchet and Zoe Wannamaker were both brilliant in this 8 years ago.
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Post by harrietcraig on Aug 17, 2018 14:59:02 GMT
Baz B seems to have awarded both Sally Field and Bill Pullman Tony Awards - the American Theatre Wing doesn't seem to be of the same view! Both nominated - neither has won. Or maybe he has the power to see into the future. Looking forward to seeing this - Tony Award winners or not. Actually, Bill Pullman (fine actor that he is) has never been nominated for a Tony. He has several Drama Desk nominations, but that's it. But then, he has only done three Broadway shows, and in one of them he was a post-opening replacement, so he wouldn't have been eligible for a Tony. |
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Post by learfan on Aug 17, 2018 19:04:24 GMT
Oddly enough I was only thinking it is time for the Old Vic to do an American classic play only this morning, after the sell out success of The Crucible, also A View From the Bridge, Cat On A hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire and Summer and Smoke have all done well for the Young Vic and Almeida. Be excellent if someone did Eugene O'Neil's Mouring Comes Electra, The Iceman Cometh and Tennessee William's Night of the Iguana. paging the National as well. Saying that All My Sons is a terrific play and David Suchet and Zoe Wannamaker were both brilliant in this 8 years ago. The NT has done Mourning becomes Electra and Night of the Iguana relatively recently. Electra was particularly superb. Doubt they would go back to them now. |
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Post by princeton on Aug 17, 2018 20:30:27 GMT
Actually, Bill Pullman (fine actor that he is) has never been nominated for a Tony Oops - guess that's my penance for pointing out someone else's mistake and then not fully researching the facts myself! Actually I looked at IBDB for The Goat (I saw the replacement cast with Sally Field and Bill Irwin) - just didn't read it correctly. |
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 19, 2018 13:39:51 GMT
Oddly enough I was only thinking it is time for the Old Vic to do an American classic play only this morning, after the sell out success of The Crucible, also A View From the Bridge, Cat On A hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire and Summer and Smoke have all done well for the Young Vic and Almeida. Be excellent if someone did Eugene O'Neil's Mouring Comes Electra, The Iceman Cometh and Tennessee William's Night of the Iguana. paging the National as well. Saying that All My Sons is a terrific play and David Suchet and Zoe Wannamaker were both brilliant in this 8 years ago. The NT has done Mourning becomes Electra and Night of the Iguana relatively recently. Electra was particularly superb. Doubt they would go back to them now. Done a bit of digging here and Mourning Becomes Electra was done in 2003 with Helen Mirren,mother play bagged best revival Olivier. catalogue.nationaltheatre.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Performance&id=PERF6363&pos=1Night if the Iguana was done as far back as 1992 with Alfred Molina in the catalogue.nationaltheatre.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Performance&id=1245&pos=1Meanwhile The Iceman Cometh was done in the Cottisloe in 1980. catalogue.nationaltheatre.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Performance&id=464&pos=1Definitely a good case for the National To do Iceman/Iguana. The National don’t do many American contemporary classics (Tennessee Williams/Eugene O’Neil/Arthur Miller/August Wilson nor do they do enoughcontemporary British classics such as Noel Coward/Harold Pinter/Alan Ayckbourn/John Osbourne/Terence Rattigan Would be very happy if the National did more of the above, Donmar hasn’t done none for a very long time. |
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Post by theatrelover123 on Aug 19, 2018 14:12:30 GMT
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Post by n1david on Aug 19, 2018 15:05:57 GMT
Great production of The Iceman Cometh starring Kevin Spacey at the Almeida in 1998, which transferred to the Old Vic, and we all know how that ended up...
(Having Googled it to check the date, struck that the cast also included Tim Piggott-Smith, Rupert Graves, Clarke Peters and Mark Strong...)
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Post by learfan on Aug 19, 2018 16:30:21 GMT
Great production of The Iceman Cometh starring Kevin Spacey at the Almeida in 1998, which transferred to the Old Vic, and we all know how that ended up... (Having Googled it to check the date, struck that the cast also included Tim Piggott-Smith, Rupert Graves, Clarke Peters and Mark Strong...) Saw that, truly amazing ensemble. |
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 19, 2018 16:48:31 GMT
Great production of The Iceman Cometh starring Kevin Spacey at the Almeida in 1998, which transferred to the Old Vic, and we all know how that ended up... (Having Googled it to check the date, struck that the cast also included Tim Piggott-Smith, Rupert Graves, Clarke Peters and Mark Strong...) Whitman did it transfer to the Old Vic? Did the theatre recieve plays then and originate them like they do now. |
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Post by lynette on Aug 19, 2018 23:32:03 GMT
Great production of The Iceman Cometh starring Kevin Spacey at the Almeida in 1998, which transferred to the Old Vic, and we all know how that ended up... (Having Googled it to check the date, struck that the cast also included Tim Piggott-Smith, Rupert Graves, Clarke Peters and Mark Strong...) Saw that, truly amazing ensemble. I saw it at the Almeida and at the Old Vic. It was really good. Spacey was mesmeric and won the Olivier award. Ah, we have seen the days... |
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Post by talkingheads on Aug 20, 2018 7:01:55 GMT
I know tickets to this will probably cost the Earth, but nevertheless I shall endeavour to get a ticket, more to see Sally Field at work than Bill Pullman, great actor though he is, I went through a phase of watching every Field film I could get my hands on, one of those actors that I don;t think has ever done a bad performance.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 9:03:06 GMT
They do have a tendency to dynamically price - think they did this for King Lear and the thing with Ralph Fiennes the other year.
Should be OK if you book early though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 9:11:12 GMT
And the dynamic pricing does work both ways, so if there's nothing available for a price you're willing to pay, then keep checking back, especially if you have decent flexibility. But like the previous posters said, there's plenty of cheap seats if you book early enough.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 9:26:45 GMT
Oh wonderful news! Love Sally Field. She’s also doing a talk in October at the Southbank Centre, if people are interested in that sort of thing, promoting her upcoming autobiography.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 10:08:45 GMT
Now that Sally is in her 70s, I hope they put her in a turban in this in a nice nod to her best performance in her best film, 'Soapdish'.
"I don't feel quite right in a turban. What I feel like is GLORIA F*CKING SWANSON! What am I, 70, David? Am I 70? Why don't you just put me in a walker? Buy a goddamn walker and put me in it!"
"Attention: no turbans for Miss Talbert!"
Fabulous.
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Post by Rory on Sept 13, 2018 22:32:56 GMT
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Post by crowblack on Sept 13, 2018 23:05:40 GMT
Dynamic pricewise, surely they won't hike it too much because that would price out the younger first-time-audience Coleman and Morgan will doubtless attract? Woyzeck was a bit of a disappointment but it did have a younger and more diverse audience than you usually see at the OV, and I presume this is still a school set text.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2018 23:09:59 GMT
Well a hot ticket just got hotter... that’s a hell of a strong cast.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 13, 2018 23:17:13 GMT
Has Jenna Coleman got much stage experience?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2018 6:49:10 GMT
Has Jenna Coleman got much stage experience? Nothing professional as far as I can see - her CV at her agent's website only lists "The Actor" directed by Colin Snell at the National - he was her school drama teacher and this seems to have been part of NT Connections in 2002. |
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