Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 18 August 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
strange interlude is 1 that isn't really lauded that I really enjoyed reading
Same here
― alimosina, Friday, 18 August 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
LDJiN can't be beat
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 August 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
http://www.jimhamill.com/uploads/2/3/6/2/23627878/712091_orig.jpg
― alimosina, Friday, 18 August 2017 23:55 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 19 August 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/theater/david-greenspan-eugene-oneill-marathon-performance.html
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 October 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
& reviewed - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/theater/review-strange-interlude-david-greenspan-eugene-oneill.html
― johnny crunch, Monday, 23 October 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
The '73 film of The Iceman Cometh is well worth seeing.
And the Denzel Washington-starring Broadway revival about to open has some wow casting: David Morse as Larry Slade and Colm Meaney as Harry Hope. (brilliantly played in aforementioned film by Robert Ryan and Fredric March)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 March 2018 03:54 (six years ago) link
Edmund in LDJIN is kind of a pain. (I came to this conclusion after seeing my third production last night, plus reading it and seeing the film.)
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 May 2018 15:23 (five years ago) link
im starting vol 1 of the two volume bio by louis sheaffer, v good so far this volume won the pulitzer (seemingly 6 yrs after its publication? idgi)
really like this newspaper excerpt, not by o'neill but painting the picture of new london:
Few places could have celebrated the Fourth of July with more enthusiasm than the town on the Thames, as a story in the New London Telegraph on July 4, 1902, suggests: "Well, it is here: the Glorious Fourth, with its powder smell, its din, its litter of fireworks rubbish, its ecstatic small boy and his headachey, worried parents; its burned fingers, its excursions, its baseball fetes and its sleepy eyes: its jags, its tin horns and its million and one detonations of greater or less degree; it is here to be suffered or enjoyed, according to temperament and years; to harass horses and make glad the street car conductors; to put dollars into the pockets of the purveyors of fun and noise and to keep the doctors busy; to fill the air with the smell of brimstone and the stomach of the small kid with soda water."
― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 July 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
also of interest (to me only perhaps), his dad's press agent's name was A. Toxen Worm
https://www.nytimes.com/1922/01/15/archives/a-toxen-worm-dead-wellknown-theatrical-agent-dies-of-apoplexy-in.html
― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 July 2020 18:59 (three years ago) link
on to volume 2, this is prob the best biography of anyone ive ever read~
good bit re casting of 'the emperor jones'
"Are you Charles Gilpin?" a deputized Provincetowner inquired as he got on the elevator. "Yes. Corsets, ladies' underthings--second floor." "Are you an experienced actor?" "Yes. Glassware, silverware, household furnishings." "We have a good part for you in a play by Eugene O'Neill." "How good? Draperies, upholsteries, linens." "The leading part. Would you like to act again?" "Yes, what's the pay?" Furniture, bedclothing, bathroom supplies--fifth floor." "The best we can pay is fifty dollars." "It's a deal. Going down. Where do I go?"
He had read but a few lines at the Provincetown when all present felt that he was the man for the role; in fact the selection of Gilpin as Brutus Jones--the first Negro ever cast by a white American company for a major role--was to prove one of the ideal combinations of actor and part in American theater history.
― johnny crunch, Monday, 17 August 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link