Sunday, October 04, 2009
The Royal We of ‘Royal Family’ Has Crossed Lines for Generations
NYTimes.com: "ROSEMARY HARRIS has been watching a significant chunk of her life flash before her eyes, and it’s played by Jan Maxwell. Ms. Harris, 82, has the role of Fanny Cavendish, the spicy matriarch, in a new production of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber’s “Royal Family.” Ms. Maxwell, 30 years her junior, is Julie Cavendish, Fanny’s daughter — the role Ms. Harris very much made her own the last time the sharp-eyed comedy, about a grand theater dynasty and the histrionics it thrives on, played Broadway, in 1975-76. The 1927 original was intended to satirize the Barrymores. This one, now in previews at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater, opens on Thursday."
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This show sounds very interesting because the relationship of all the people involved in it. When you really get down and think about it, the theatre world is very small. Within the US you are constantly working with people who know others you have worked with before or working with people you have worked with before on the other side of the country. Its a big industry, but it becomes very easy to get to know many of the people. Its a great industry to be known.
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