Scarlett Johansson For ‘Cat On A Hot Tin Roof’

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• That will be a hot ticket. I’d love to see Renner playing opposite Johansson. Any news about director?

  Comment by Wow — Thursday May 31, 2012 @ 11:18am PDT  Reply to this post

• too bad. Broadway continues to slavishly hire film stars and babysit them in order to plug ticket sales,its seemingly the only way they can afford to put on serious dramatic productions. Audiences of celebrity worshippers show up. In the end, the play becomes the casualty every time.

  No legitimate regional theatre would hire S. Johansson to play Maggie without her celebrity badge. Not enough talent, not enough chops. Boring. Any serious audience will be asleep by the end of the first Act. Great actresses of the past have torn into this role. S.J. is not that by a long shot, sorry.

  Comment by buddhabob — Thursday May 31, 2012 @ 11:36am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Thank you for this comment. Um HELLOOOOOOO HOLLYWOOD! HELLO BROADWAY!
    Theatre actors came first. Get it right. You don’t infuse theatre with STARS- you infuse it with ART. There are plenty of good stage actors out there. And yes, she would never get cast anywhere. It’s laughable.

    Comment by badbroadway — Thursday May 31, 2012 @ 11:41am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Um, Death of a Salesman was pretty amazing. The reason these people become movie stars is usually because they’re pretty good actors…

    Comment by Um — Thursday May 31, 2012 @ 11:45am PDT  Reply to this post

• Hahahaha…..this is a joke, right?

  Comment by yourkidding — Thursday May 31, 2012 @ 11:46am PDT  Reply to this post

• Wow talk abpout miscasting. Didn’t anyone see The Black Dahlia? That was the worst performance ever by a “name” actress

  Comment by Daniel — Thursday May 31, 2012 @ 11:47am PDT  Reply to this post

• Noooooooooooooo!

  Comment by shocked — Thursday May 31, 2012 @ 11:55am PDT  Reply to this post

• Regarding “Death of a Salesman” the fellow playing Willy is a trained and experienced and very talented stage actor first before ever breaking in to film. An exception to the general rule.

  And Brick is easily cast and not difficult to pull off imo. Renner would be fine. He’s definitely got stuff going on inside. But then any decent young leading man in regional theatre could play the role.

  My point was that our culture now is so celebrity`- obsessed that it puts the cart before the horse and makes a mockery of art. The essence of great drama is discovered in richly textured story telling. The sine qua non of celebrity is its shallow one-dimensionality which ultimately has proven to be a curse on our society and a drug.

  Comment by buddhabob — Thursday May 31, 2012 @ 8:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I see nothing wrong with this idea. I think she’ll be great. I can definitely see her as Maggie the Cat. (I don’t even get the criticism of her as a Broadway caliber actress – Greg Mosher’s “A View from the Bridge” – everybody loved her.) Renner IS Brick, isn’t he? Chris Pine is a great idea too. You gotta have dysfunctional but genuine chemistry that’s suffused with sensuality if not sexuality between Maggie and Brick. The key player though is Big Daddy. A production of this play sinks or swims on the casting of that role. Big Mama is important too. It’s very tough for a movie star to take a roll of the dice on a new play – but maybe that’s next. Henry Fonda kept the plates spinning with “Mister Roberts.” Deborah Kerr with “Tea and Sympathy” too. The last production – with James Earl Jones – the cast was great but let down by Debbie Allen’s direction. My unneeded two cents. Revivals are important for everybody. Great movie actors are starving for great parts to play. A limited run – great business – they will only get better as performers it’s such a unique (though incredibly demanding challenge – not for lightweights; their facets and talents can be observed in interesting new ways. Brando, Newman, Beatty, Redford…on and on…

  Comment by Bentley — Monday June 4, 2012 @ 1:24pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This Is Going To Get Me To Go To New York For The First Time.

  Comment by Phil In Reno — Thursday June 7, 2012 @ 11:33pm PDT  Reply to this post