Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway (BroadwayWorld.com)

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/17/10 at 11:27pm

"In my long career, I've played so many extraordinary women that basically I'm getting mistaken for one." -Meryl Streep

SHOWS IN 2013: 1/24 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; 2/7 Really Really; 2/9 Once; 2/17 American Idiot (Philadelphia, PA); 3/6 Hands on a Hardbody; 3/7 Matilda; 3/8 Sleep No More; 3/16 Sleep No More; 3/23 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; 3/27 Then She Fell; 4/17 Matilda; 4/24 Patti Issues; 5/8 Matilda

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/17/10 at 11:28pm

I really hope so.

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/17/10 at 11:28pm

AMEN!

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/17/10 at 11:29pm

Mmm I really hope she does. She is perfection.

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/17/10 at 11:31pm

Now the question is: in what?? I'd watch her read the phone book, personally. But, realistically, that's just not possible.

I'd love to see her in an original play. Or maybe a revival of THE LITTLE FOXES?

"In my long career, I've played so many extraordinary women that basically I'm getting mistaken for one." -Meryl Streep

SHOWS IN 2013: 1/24 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; 2/7 Really Really; 2/9 Once; 2/17 American Idiot (Philadelphia, PA); 3/6 Hands on a Hardbody; 3/7 Matilda; 3/8 Sleep No More; 3/16 Sleep No More; 3/23 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; 3/27 Then She Fell; 4/17 Matilda; 4/24 Patti Issues; 5/8 Matilda

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/17/10 at 11:31pm

FIRST REPLACEMENT AFTER CATHERINE ZETA JONES IN A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC!

I'll take the wind and soar.

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/17/10 at 11:36pm

FIRST REPLACEMENT AFTER CATHERINE ZETA JONES IN A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC!

Trevor Nunn would sooner cast her as Mme. Armfeldt.

"In my long career, I've played so many extraordinary women that basically I'm getting mistaken for one." -Meryl Streep

SHOWS IN 2013: 1/24 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; 2/7 Really Really; 2/9 Once; 2/17 American Idiot (Philadelphia, PA); 3/6 Hands on a Hardbody; 3/7 Matilda; 3/8 Sleep No More; 3/16 Sleep No More; 3/23 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; 3/27 Then She Fell; 4/17 Matilda; 4/24 Patti Issues; 5/8 Matilda

Updated On: 1/17/10 at 11:36 PM

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/17/10 at 11:40pm

I've been waiting for years for those damn kids to go to college so this could happen. She's been saying it for years now so I'm 100% sure we'll see her in a play (or even a musical) by the end of 2011.

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/17/10 at 11:54pm

I think she specifically mentioned "play" in that briefing, which was after some reporter gushed over her role in "Mamma Mia!" (rather than "Doubt") last year.

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/17/10 at 11:58pm

Well maybe she'll do AGNES OF GOD with Marcia Gay Harden.

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/18/10 at 12:18am

She can't keep doing movies like that Nancy Meyers crapfest.

Tony Kushner should write something for her.

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/18/10 at 12:25am

OMG I can't wait!

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/18/10 at 12:30am

Now, I have something to add to my nightly prayers!

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/18/10 at 12:33am

ANYONE CAN WHISTLE? Directed by Mike Nichols? I can dream.

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/18/10 at 12:43am

"ANYONE CAN WHISTLE? Directed by Mike Nichols? I can dream."

Don't know about the Mike Nichols bit, but it sounds like someone else knows about a little something, huh Pgenre...

"I think Glee is way too sharp, smart, witty, clever and emotionally confronting for the masses." - Dave19 - "What's next? Snow Black and the 7 Swaggers? Shasquirta and the Beast? 101 Weavematians? Willis in Ghettoland?" - Dave19, in reference to the new ANNIE remake.

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/18/10 at 12:45am

Yes please!

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/18/10 at 12:54am

Funny you said Anyone Can Whistle, because I was thinking another Lansbury role might be good for her...Auntie Mame perhaps?

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/18/10 at 12:54am

Funny you said Anyone Can Whistle, because I was thinking another Lansbury role might be good for her...Auntie Mame perhaps?

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/18/10 at 01:00am

It'd be exciting if she did Anyone Can Whistle in April at Encores, but I doubt that's happening.

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/18/10 at 01:32am

Anything and I'd show up!

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/18/10 at 01:59am

Beauty queen of Leenane revival... Meryl doing McDonagh... i'd die a happy camper

or The Trojan Women by Ellen McClaughlin with Meryl as Hecuba

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/18/10 at 02:02am

I can already hear people complaining about her not signing at the stage door or selling signed posters for BC/EFA for too much money and not signing their posters or playbills. Welcome to Broadway Meryl!

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/18/10 at 02:32am

How about a new musical/play written for her. But, I do actually like the idea of her as Auntie Mame/Mame (although she is too old I guess).

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/18/10 at 09:55am

I'd rather see her in a brand new play, but a revival will do. I want her to play a b!tch, just because watching her rip someone to shreds would make me pee myself. If she did BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE, that would be marvelous. But that won't happen.

"In my long career, I've played so many extraordinary women that basically I'm getting mistaken for one." -Meryl Streep

SHOWS IN 2013: 1/24 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; 2/7 Really Really; 2/9 Once; 2/17 American Idiot (Philadelphia, PA); 3/6 Hands on a Hardbody; 3/7 Matilda; 3/8 Sleep No More; 3/16 Sleep No More; 3/23 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; 3/27 Then She Fell; 4/17 Matilda; 4/24 Patti Issues; 5/8 Matilda

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Meryl Streep Says She's Ready to Return to Broadway
Posted: 1/18/10 at 10:13am

How about a great all-star revival of THE CHERRY ORCHARD, the play she first made an impression in (the Serban at Lincoln Center), as Dunyasha the maid. Now, she'd be magnificent in the role played by Irene Worth, Ranyevskaya. I know she did SEAGULL in the park, a not dissimilar role, but we could use a great ORCHARD. A couple of years ago, I saw Laila Robbins do a lovely production at Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, and thought Meryl should do this.

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