{"id":43,"date":"2008-02-04T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/02\/an-all-that-chat-survey-the-play-edition.html"},"modified":"2010-06-16T02:12:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T06:12:22","slug":"an-all-that-chat-survey-the-play-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"An ‘All That Chat’ survey…the Play Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. The first play I ever saw on Broadway was Noises Off! <\/em>(July 9, 2002)
2. The play I would most like to see would be the original companies of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Death of a Salesman, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Noises Off <\/em>(NY & London; for Pat Routledge and Dottie Loudon), West Side Waltz, The Glass Menagerie, The Lion in Winter <\/em>and probably a slew of others…
3. The play I would most like to see again is The Pillowman, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, <\/em>the revival of Journey’s End. <\/em>Still running…? AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY!!!!<\/em>
4. The play I never want to see again is Romeo and Juliet <\/em>(sorry kids, just don’t care for it; West Side Story <\/em>on the other hand…)
5. The best performance in a Broadway play by a woman I\u2019ve ever seen is… wow this is tough. I’ve seen Cherry in Doubt, <\/em>Kathleen in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, <\/em>Frances de la Tour in The History Boys <\/em>and Judy Kaye in Souvenir<\/em>; however, I’m going to go with Jayne Houdyshell in Well<\/em>. (Though the previous divas are all a decimal point away from the title).
6. The best performance in a Broadway play by a man I\u2019ve ever seen is Bill Irwin in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? <\/em>(honorable mentions to Stark Sands in Journey’s End, <\/em>Zeljko Ivanek in The Pillowman, <\/em>Brian F. O’Byrne in Doubt<\/em>).
7. The person I wish they never cast was David Barbour in Virginia Woolf<\/em>. The person they should have cast was Billy Crudup.
8. My favorite Broadway staging of a play was The Pillowman<\/em>.
9. The line that always brings a lump to my throat is – “I am, George, I am.”
10. The stupidest line I\u2019ve ever heard is… hm, I’ll fill this in if I can think of something that bad…
11. The first play I had to go back and see twice was the revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?<\/em>
12. The first play I ever walked out of was – I have never walked out of a show.
13. The most under praised and overly deserving play in my opinion is Coram Boy.<\/em>
14. The most overly praised and under deserving show in my opinion is The History Boys. <\/em>I mean, I liked it; but, The Lieutenant of Inishmore<\/em> was a much more satisfying play.
15. The line or monologue you’re most likely to quote in every day life: “Life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death!” Auntie Mame<\/em>.
16. If I could recast any role in a current Broadway play with a performer of the past it would be Uta Hagen as Violet in August: Osage County, <\/em>Laurette Taylor in Doubt, <\/em>young Kim Stanley or Barbara Bel Geddes in Proof.<\/em>
17. If I could recast current actor in a Broadway play that was before their time it would be Cherry Jones in The Little Foxes <\/em>(with Vicki Clark as Birdie); Margaret Colin in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, <\/em>Harriet Harris in The Desk Set <\/em>or Come Back, Little Sheba, <\/em>Mary Louise Parker in Mary, Mary. <\/em>
18. The show they should never change a word of because it is already perfect is Long Day’s Journey Into Night<\/em>. They’ve already tampered with Virginia Woolf?<\/em>
19. The show I’d most like to get my hands on and rewrite is Well<\/em>.
20. The role I was born to play on Broadway is any acerbic and witty wisecracking sidekick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. The first play I ever saw on Broadway was Noises Off! (July 9, 2002)2. The play I would most like to see would be the original companies of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Death of a Salesman, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Noises Off (NY & London; for Pat Routledge and Dottie Loudon), West … Continue reading An ‘All That Chat’ survey…the Play Edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}