And its way over due. Hopefully, this production will suffer a better fate than the 2003 planned revival starring Hilary Swank. It appears that this production's female leads are already cast. Should be interesting.
That's great. I am really intrigued as to who they are getting to play the leads.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
I think on paper Hilary Swank was a good choice. She apparently was just in way over her head. Annie Sullivan is an incredibly demanding role - vocally, physically, emotionally -- probably not the best choice for a film actress making her stage debut.
Elizabeth Marvel would make a killer Annie Sullivan, but I suspect she's nowhere near famous enough to headline a for-profit Broadway revival.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
I wonder if they mean twenty as in a real 20 or as in Anne Bancroft (35 playing 20). How fab would Carey Mulligan be. Of course she's booked til 2020 now with film work.
I bet it ends up being someone like Natalie Portman.
Clea Duvall as Annie Sullivan. She's past 30, but she's a good actress.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
I love Clea. I love her to death and would pay top dollar to see her. Unfortunately though, she's not even close to being a big enough "name" for what they'll need here. They'll need someone like Anne Hathaway to sell this show.
The rumor on ATC is that Allison Pill is playing Annie Sullivan.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.