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What should be the next Shakespeare play on Broadway?
NYC4Life
Broadway Star Joined: 1/23/06
#25What should be the next Shakespeare play on Broadway?
Posted: 4/18/13 at 2:11pm
For those who said Julius Caesar. Go to Brooklyn! Bam currently has a wonderful production from the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was definitely the best production I have seen.
Shakespeare is performed all the time in New York. Go support and experience productions that are not only in Broadway houses. They are normally cheaper and are just as good if not better than the pays on Broadway.
http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/theater/reviews/julius-caesar-at-the-harvey-theater.html?_r=0
Updated On: 4/18/13 at 02:11 PM
aaronb
Broadway Star Joined: 6/3/12
#26What should be the next Shakespeare play on Broadway?
Posted: 4/18/13 at 5:17pmAhh I would kill to see Rylance do his Twelfth Night/Richard III on Broadway.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#27What should be the next Shakespeare play on Broadway?
Posted: 4/18/13 at 5:43pm
I would like to see just a regular production. No gimmicks, no star stunt casting. The reason why I have enjoyed several productions in London is that they just presented the plays and allowed story and language to be the star.
But then one of my favorite RSC productions was of Taming of the Shrew where they opened Act 2 with Katherine in her wedding dress pushing a Volkswagen which Petruchio was steering. Such fun!
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.
#28What should be the next Shakespeare play on Broadway?
Posted: 4/18/13 at 8:53pmI would like to see a one man Othello played on a slave plantation circa 1818. Harvey Fierstein can play all the parts.
#29What should be the next Shakespeare play on Broadway?
Posted: 4/18/13 at 11:21pmRandom question but I'm curious: Who here has read Othello and agrees the "Iago is gay and in love with Othello" theory?
#30What should be the next Shakespeare play on Broadway?
Posted: 4/18/13 at 11:34pmI'm not sure- it sort of falls under the "somewhat hammy-slash-camp villain with drama against a protagonist MUST have unstated sexual desires" trope. It could go either way.
NYC4Life
Broadway Star Joined: 1/23/06
#31What should be the next Shakespeare play on Broadway?
Posted: 4/19/13 at 8:53am
"Random question but I'm curious: Who here has read Othello and agrees the "Iago is gay and in love with Othello" theory?"
I have seen many productions and adaptations of Othello. It really depends on the the actors in each production. I have seen the sexual desire for Othello work to great and powerful success.
#32What should be the next Shakespeare play on Broadway?
Posted: 4/19/13 at 4:54pm
Personally, one of my favorites that isn't on the A-list of Shakespeare classics is RICHARD II but between Eddie Redmayne last year and David Tennant this year in England (why don't I live over there???), Ben Whishaw (amazing) in last summer's "Hollow Crown" miniseries, and the old clips of Mark Rylance from the Globe on YouTube that I go back nearly monthly, I suddenly feel like RICHARD II has become overdone, against all odds.
I had also long been saying ROMEO & JULIET should come back, and am half-excited about this production coming (that half being Condola Rashad.) I am glad that Shakespeare, generally, is readily available (with usually one on Broadway every season or every other at least) and numerous productions around the city... I don't think, honestly, that the wishlist should be that long. It's a pretty great city for Shakespeare, generally.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#33What should be the next Shakespeare play on Broadway?
Posted: 4/20/13 at 1:52am
Antony and Cleopatra. Great play, beautiful poetry. But who to play Cleopatra? Know of several who could do Antony, but it's really Cleopatra's play. Do they exist?
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