| re: I’m surprised it got a best play nomination. | |
| Last Edit: ShowGoer 07:42 am EDT 05/01/24 | |
| Posted by: ShowGoer 07:41 am EDT 05/01/24 | |
| In reply to: re: I’m surprised it got a best play nomination. - WaymanWong 11:42 pm EDT 04/30/24 | |
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| “ I would've been happier to see Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger in a revival of ''The Glass Menagerie'' instead.” I mean two of those three actors played those roles in Broadway revivals of Menagerie, one 18 years ago and the other a decade ago. And neither of those was even the most recent Broadway revival, with Sally Field, which was only a half dozen years ago or so. (Which doesn’t count the Judith Ivey off-Broadway revival at the Roundabout 14 years ago.) There’d been some early speculation the Amy Adams revival in London last year might transfer, but even though she sounded miscast and even before the reviews came out, I couldn’t help but think that play, good as it is, and even with all these different great performers taking it on, has by now just been overexposed. I would never say “let’s put a moratorium” on such-and-such play - but even Death of a Salesman has only had 4 major New York productions in the last half century, while Menagerie has had at least that many in thee past 2 decades. Quite apart from the reviews and the nominations, and even if it winds up being disappointing, I for one am very much looking forward to seeing this Tony-nominated cast in a new play by one of our important playwrights, as opposed to seeing some of them do roles I’ve already seen them play in 2005 and 2014. |
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