{"id":271,"date":"2008-09-30T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/09\/home-sweet-heaven.html"},"modified":"2008-09-30T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T17:36:00","slug":"home-sweet-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"Home Sweet Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, so it&#8217;s not a revival of <em>High Spirits, <\/em>but I can barely contain my excitement at the idea of Noel Coward&#8217;s <em>Blithe Spirit <\/em>coming back to Broadway. The 1941 play, about the chaos that ensues when a man&#8217;s dead wife is resurrected during a seance, was last seen on Broadway in 1987 starring Richard Chamberlain, Blythe Danner and Geraldine Page.<\/p>\n<p>The revival is going to be directed by Michael Blakemore and it was just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/121858.html\">announced<\/a> today that the production is going to star Christine Ebersole as Elvira, the first (deceased) wife. I&#8217;ve heard the producers want Angela Lansbury for the role of the eccentric medium Madame Arcati, a role written for Margaret Rutherford (and subsequently played by Mildred Natwick in the original Broadway cast and by Bea Lillie in the musical adaptation, <em>High Spirits <\/em>in 1964). Lansbury has apparently gone on record saying she wouldn&#8217;t take on any more stage roles after the taxing production of <em>Deuce. <\/em>Let&#8217;s hope that producer Jeffrey Richards and Blakemore can convince her otherwise!<\/p>\n<p>Other casting is pending. Any thoughts on who should round out the play?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, so it&#8217;s not a revival of High Spirits, but I can barely contain my excitement at the idea of Noel Coward&#8217;s Blithe Spirit coming back to Broadway. The 1941 play, about the chaos that ensues when a man&#8217;s dead wife is resurrected during a seance, was last seen on Broadway in 1987 starring Richard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=271\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home Sweet Heaven<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1598,1953,1595],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-angela-lansbury","tag-blithe-spirit","tag-christine-ebersole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}