FLASHBACK FRIDAY: MISERY's Laurie Metcalf, Thrilling Audiences in THE OTHER PLACE and BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS
By: Michael Dale Oct. 23, 2015
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With William Goldman's stage adaptation of Stephen King's Misery now previewing on Broadway, it's great to have Laurie Metcalf back on the New York stage. Her co-star Bruce Willis may be making his Broadway debut, but Metcalf, who won a 1985 Obie Award for her Off-Broadway debut in Lanford Wilson's BALM IN GILEAD, is one of the finest actors regularly appearing in town.
Her last Broadway appearance was a 2013 Tony-nominated turn in Sharr White's THE OTHER PLACE, where she played a brilliant scientist whose deteriorating mind keeps taking her to a different sense of reality.
One of her most gripping performances was in the 2009 Broadway revival of Neil Simon's BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS, where she played a sacrificing mother based on the playwright's own.
Broadway's new suspense thriller Misery, starring two-time Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe Award winner Bruce Willis and three-time Emmy Award winner Laurie Metcalf and written by two-time Academy Award winnerWilliam Goldman, just began performances last night, October 22, 2015, at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre (235 W 44th Street), and officially opens on Sunday, November 15, 2015, in a strictly limited 16-week engagement.
Successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon (Bruce Willis) is rescued from a car crash by his "Number One Fan," Annie Wilkes (Laurie Metcalf), and wakes up captive in her secluded home. While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads the manuscript to his newest novel and becomes enraged when she discovers the author has killed off her favorite character, Misery Chastain. Annie forces Paul to write a new "Misery" novel, and he quickly realizes Annie has no intention of letting him go anywhere. The irate Annie has Paul writing as if his life depends on it, and if he does not make her deadline, it will.
MISERY has scenic design by David Korins (Hamilton), costume design by Academy Award and Tony Award winnerAnn Roth (The Book of Mormon), lighting design by David Weiner (The Normal Heart), sound design by Tony Award winner Darron L. West (Peter and the Starcatcher), and casting by Telsey + Company/William Cantler, CSA.
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