Dennehy, Falls and Tarver Teamed 'HUGHIE' and 'KRAPP'S' to Hit Broadway in April 2010
By: Eddie Varley May. 31, 2009
The New York Times reports that the upcoming Goodman Theater double bill of Eugene O'Neill's "Hughie" and Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape," both starring Brian Dennehy and directed by Robert Falls and Canadian director Jennifer Tarver and will come to Broadway. The two plays had been expected on Broadway next season, but now it's official according to The Times. The production, which will open first at the Goodman Theater in Chicago in January, will start performances on Broadway the week of April 12, 2010, at a theater to be announced. Dennehy and Falls recently teamed for the Broadway production of Desire Under the Elms.
To read the full Times article click here.
The Broadway-Bound Double-Bill features; Hughie, By Eugene O'Neill and Directed by Robert Falls and Krapp's Last Tape By Samuel Beckett and Directed by Jennifer Tarver.
Robert Falls and Brian Dennehy reprise their 2004 hit production of Eugene O'Neill's one-act play Hughie. High-rolling gambler Erie and Hughie, the credulous night clerk at his apartment building, were confidants. Hughie admired Erie for his bold lifestyle and Erie considered Hughie his good luck charm. When Hughie dies unexpectedly, Erie's luck changes for the worse and he finds himself in dire straights. Then Erie meets the new night clerk, who reminds him enough of Hughie that he takes the gamble that his luck is about to change.
Brian Dennehy stars in Samuel Beckett's classic one-act, one-man show, Krapp's Last Tape. Every year on his birthday, self-absorbed Krapp records the important-and the banal-moments of the last year. As he prepares to record a new tape on his 69th birthday, he begins to listen to his archives and stumbles upon a tender memory that he recorded half a lifetime ago. This immersion in his own history leads Krapp to question with growing regret whether his present lives up to his past.
These conjoined productions were first performed to universal acclaim at Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Summer 2008.
Photo by Eric Y. Exits
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