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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
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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
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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