Posted by Rob 2012-12-20 16:11:48
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by PastorErnst 2012-12-20 16:14:16
"The first show is a delicious comedy that will feature
a beloved Public Theater Park alum in one of the lead roles."
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by rougeduck 2012-12-20 16:19:28
Comedy of Errors is very kitchen oriented. So that's delicious right?
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by SondheimFan5 2012-12-20 16:28:39
Sounds like Pacino as Hamlet to me.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by broadwaydevil 2012-12-20 17:29:58
I would love Anne Hathaway in the Merry Wives of Windsor if I can dream..
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by bjh2114 2012-12-20 18:34:32
I feel like Comedy of Errors and Taming of the Shrew are the only side-splitting comedies that could be characterized as "delicious" and haven't been done all that recently in the park. I think Hathaway could make a very funny Kate.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by Kad 2012-12-20 18:38:42
I recall hearing that Love's Labor's Lost was an option. But I don't think that's a "delicious comedy".
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by broadwaydevil 2012-12-20 19:40:47
There's also the possibility it isn't Shakespeare...
Love's Labor's Lost would be interesting but didn't the Public just do that recently downtown? Agree that I wouldn't characterize that as a "delicious comedy."
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by bjh2114 2012-12-20 20:10:18
The last time the first show of the summer season WASN'T Shakespeare was 1998 when the first show was Skin of Our Teeth.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by henrikegerman 2012-12-20 20:45:43
Has the Festival has never done Comedy of Errors in the park? It would seem a perfect show for the Delacorte.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by broadwaydevil 2012-12-21 02:02:06
The last time the first show of the summer season WASN'T Shakespeare was 1998 when the first show was Skin of Our Teeth.
No, in 2009 the first show was The Bacchae. It most likely is Shakespeare I was just throwing out the possibility.
A Comedy of Errors is probably the most realistic guess (plus I don't think it has been done at the Delacorte anytime recently.)
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by somethingwicked 2012-12-21 02:10:28
The Public did just do LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST downtown, but the version being talked about for the park this coming summer is a musical adaptation by Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman, directed by Timbers.
I'd heard previously that it was being eyed as the second of the two shows in the season, so it would make sense that this clue is referring to something else for the opening slot.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by bjh2114 2012-12-21 06:33:31
No, in 2009 the first show was The Bacchae. It most likely is Shakespeare I was just throwing out the possibility.
Um, no. There was the little show called Twelfth Night that year that came first. The Bacchae was the second show.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by Kad 2012-12-21 11:52:41
When was the last time a non-Shakespearean comedy was performed in the park? I can't even recall one.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by AC126748 2012-12-21 11:55:23
The Cherry Orchard, if you consider that a comedy.
Tartuffe in 1999.
The Skin of Our Teeth in 1998.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by little_sally 2012-12-21 15:37:48
I just wish they'd do a tragedy or a history. Sick of comedies.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by tobiasragg 2012-12-21 15:43:18
I wish they would bring over the Comedy of Errors that played Regents Park a few years ago. That was DELICIOUS.
Also, Hathaway as Katherine is making me drool. Any dreams for her Petruchio?
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by Kad 2012-12-21 15:47:21
Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well weren't exactly fun time comedies.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by little_sally 2012-12-21 16:39:01
Technically All's Well and Measure for Measure aren't comedies, they're problem plays.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by bobs3 2012-12-21 19:06:40
Maybe Kevin Kline (a beloved Delacorte alum if there ever was one) in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR (although he has already played Falstaff at LCT in Henry IV and may not want to return to the role). On the other other hand, he did HAMLET twice at The Public (the first production was loathsome and misdirected so a few years later Mr. Papp let him come back and do it again --this time Kline directed himself-- and that production was well-received and they filmed it for PBS).
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by somethingwicked 2012-12-21 19:22:41
Anne Hathaway is definitely not the actor in question. While I'd love to see her back in the park, she's filming the new Steven Spielberg movie in London next year, which will occupy most of her time through 2013 (including when she'd have to be available to do a summer show.)
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by darquegk 2012-12-21 20:40:31
I would love, love, love to see David Tennant and Catherine Tate together in another Shakespeare after their "Much Ado About Nothing." How about "Taming of the Shrew," or should I say "Taming of the Who?"
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by little_sally 2012-12-21 20:43:40
That is a wonderful suggestion, darquegk. They were fantastic as Beatrice and Benedict.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by frogs_fan85 2012-12-27 15:32:36
The second hint just arrived in an email blast:
The first show next summer has been adapted into a musical more than once.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by little_sally 2012-12-27 15:41:32
Is there another musical version of Taming of the Shrew?
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by FindingNamo 2012-12-27 15:43:38
"Delicious"? Sounds like Titus Andronicus to me.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by somethingwicked 2012-12-27 15:44:20
This makes me think the Timbers/Friedman LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST musical could be the first show instead of the second, since the play is a comedy and has been previously adapted by both Gilbert and Sullivan as PRINCESS IDA and Nicolas Nabokov as an opera.
COMEDY OF ERRORS (which they haven't done in a while) has also been adapted as a musical more than once.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by lull89 2012-12-27 15:47:47
There are, according to Wikipedia, 3 musical adaptations of Comedy of Errors, "The Boys from Syracuse," "Oh, Brother!" and "The Bomb-itty of Errors."
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by little_sally 2012-12-27 16:34:22
Yeah, it's probably Comedy of Errors.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by bjh2114 2012-12-27 16:53:52
I doubt it's LLL since it's neither delicious nor much of a surprise since it was already known to be happening by several people.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by JayG 2 2012-12-27 17:22:59
Why are we assuming it's a Shakespeare?
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by bjh2114 2012-12-27 22:21:45
Because the first show fo the season in the park is almost always Shakespeare. You can almost count the number of times the first show was not Shakespeare on one hand. The last time the first show wasn't Shakespeare was 14 years ago in 1998 (The Skin of Our Teeth). 16 years before that was 1982 (Don Juan). Before that, 1980 (The Pirates of Penzance). 1977 (The Threepenny Opera). 1972 (Ti-Jean and His Brothers). 1969 (Peer Gynt).
So that makes 6 times in the 50 year history of Shakespeare in the Park that the first show was not Shakespeare.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by GavestonPS 2012-12-27 22:22:01
When was the last time a non-Shakespearean comedy was performed in the park? I can't even recall one.
CORIOLANUS and OTHELLO were done in the mid-1980s. (I'm not saying those were the last non-comedies; they were just ones I saw.)
I must admit it was difficult to sit in the heat all day for a ticket to a 4-hour tragedy. I think I left both productions at intermission because I had a mixture of exhaustion and dehydration.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by bjh2114 2012-12-27 22:30:22
Gaveston, I think you missed the point of that one...
The quote was NOT about Shakespearean non-comedies (a.k.a. tragedies like Coriolanus and Othello, as well as romances, histories, etc.), but rather about comedies that were by people other than Shakespeare. The answer to that question is that Moliere's Tartuffe was the last one, performed in 1999 after The Taming of the Shrew. Also, Drood obviously played there in 1985.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by somethingwicked 2012-12-27 22:36:48
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH was also done as a Shakespeare in the Park show back in 1998. I'd love for The Public to do that piece again someday, with Nina Arianda as Sabina and John Lithgow and Patricia Clarkson as Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus. It's so huge and zany that it can only really be done somewhere like the Delacourt.
Arianda would also be a killer Kate in THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, though I have a feeling we're more likely to see Lily Rabe tackle that play in the future.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by GavestonPS 2012-12-27 22:38:37
Got it, bjh, thanks. There was also a discussion on the previous page about the dearth of Shakespearean tragedies in the park and I conflated that with Kad's post. My bad.
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On a different note (and this is ironic considering the discussion in another thread about comparing current shows to historic ones), I think the Meryl Streep/Raul Julia TAMING OF THE SHREW in the early 1980s was so nearly perfect, the entire play should be retired from the Delacorte repertoire. Sort of like they retire a great football player's number.
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Posted by theatreguy 2012-12-31 12:18:29
Here's the third clue from the Public:
"The first show has not been performed at the Delacorte in over 20 years. Be the first to see it in two decades!"
The Comedy of Errors is a comedy, has been adapted into two musicals (Boys from Syracuse and Oh Brother) and was last done in the park in 1992.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by frogs_fan85 2012-12-31 12:19:35
Hint #3:
The first show has not been performed at the Delacorte in over 20 years.
Be the first to see it in two decades!
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by broadwaydevil 2012-12-31 12:43:26
It's a guarantee it's The Comedy of Errors now. All that's left is to figure out who it's starring.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by Kad 2012-12-31 12:50:31
Well, the lead roles are younger. So it's not a real veteran of the Public.
I bet Hamish Linklater will be in it.
Public Theater Teases First 2013 Shakespeare in the Park Show!
Posted by somethingwicked 2012-12-31 13:25:31
Hamish Linklater, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Michael Urie, and Carson Elrod would be inspired casting as the central foursome in COMEDY OF ERRORS, and this being the first show of the summer would mean Ferguson would be available on his MODERN FAMILY hiatus.
