Sunday, October 15, 2006
The Coast of Utopia
New York Times: "If writing all that was a colossal undertaking, however, it may pale in comparison with the effort of getting it onstage. This play, the first part of which begins previews at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater on Tuesday, will be one of the biggest in Broadway’s recent history, up there with the Royal Shakespeare Company’s eight-and-a-half-hour “Nicholas Nickleby” in 1981."
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Stoppard's Utopia is huge, I mean of course it is. I think that this is really an issue of demographic here in the sense that a marathon of plays, all by Stoppard, and all so intellectual, would ONLY work in Manhattan. I think that the other smart decision made by the Producers was to make sure that the cast had names in it. With people such as Ethan Hawke and BIlly Crudup it will have a little more tug than a show that was just boasting a really deep, really intellectual, BFA-acquiring cast.
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