Katie Holmes’ Broadway Bow Set
Mark your calendars, Katie Holmes’ Broadway debut date has been set.
The producers of the revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons announced today that Mrs. Tom Cruise & Co. will begin previews Sept. 18 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The curtain will officially go up Oct. 16, and the limited-run engagement is set to last through Jan. 11.
As previously reported, Holmes will join an all-star ensemble that includes John Lithgow, Dianne Weist and Patrick Wilson.
Instead of $100the average price for most Broadway showspremium seats for All My Sons’ evening performances are expected to go for a whopping $251, while regular seats will sell for $116. During the weeks of Thanksgiving and Christmas, those prices are expected to soar at least $100 higher.
Based on a true story of war profiteering and tragedy, Miller’s play originally opened in 1947 with a cast that included Ed Begley Sr., Beth Miller and Karl Malden. It ran for 328 performances, won Tonys for Best Play and Best Director (Elia Kazan) and was twice adapted to the big screen, in 1948 and 1986.
All My Sons will mark the 29-year-old Holmes’ first stage foray since her high school days in Toledo, Ohio.
Katie Holmes Gives Her Regards to Broadway
Katie Holmes and Nicole Kidman have something else in common.
Tom Cruise's current better half will be taking Broadway by storm this fall in a revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, costarring Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow and Little Children hunk Patrick Wilson.
Holmes' rep told News in March that the 29-year-old actress was in talks to make her professional stage debut.
A place and a premiere date haven't been determined, but Simon McBurney will direct the tale of a family torn apart by the repercussions of its patriarch's black-market business dealings during World War II, based on a true story. All My Sons scored Miller a Tony Award for writing in 1947.
Kidman made her debut on the Great White Way 10 years ago, when she was still Mrs. Cruise, in The Blue Room.
Carla Gugino cast in Watchmen
Carla Gugino has signed on to Zack Snyder’s big screen adaptation of Alan Moore’s classic graphic novel Watchmen. Gugino joins Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Malin Akerman. Gugino will play Sally Jupiter, a burlesque dancer turned superhero named The Silk Spectre. She is part of the Minutemen, the group of heroes who preceded the Watchmen, and mother to the new Silk Spectre, played by Malin Akerman.
Gugino recently appeared in a five-episode arc of HBO’s Entourage as Vincent Chase’s agent. She is also featured in Universal’s American Gangster.
Snyder’s recent comments at Comic-Con 2007 have given me new hope that this project will be made right.And that’s coming from someone who wasn’t a fan of Snyder’s last film, 300.
source: THR
Casting Watchmen: Matthew Goode, Patrick Wilson, Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup and Jackie Earle Haley
Later this week at the San Diego Comic-Con, Zack Snyder is expected to reveal the cast for his upcoming big screen adaptation of the classic Alan Moore graphic novel Watchmen. But as we near our Wednesday afternoon flight to San Diego, actors names have started to leak onto the interwebs.
- IESB reports that Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias will be played by Matthew Goode (The Lookout, Match Point). Previous internet speculation had Jude Law attached to the role.
- Patrick Wilson (Little Children) as The Night Owl.
- LatinoReview reports that Malin Akerman (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, The Invasion, The Heartbreak Kid) has been cast as Sally Jupiter aka The Silk Spectre.
- Billy Crudup (Almost Famous) is supposedly attached to play Dr. Manhattan.
- Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children) has been confirmed by LatinoReview as Walter Kovacs aka Rorschach
Watchmen is considered the Citizen Kane of comic books. Many of the sucessful (and some unsucessful) comic book series have borred elements and ideas from the book. Because of that, I’m worried that much of the material might now seem cliche. It will be interesting to see if they can sucessfully adapt it to the big screen. Last month we published a rumored cast list which you can read at this link. I’m sure we’ll find out many more names at the Warner Bros panel on Friday morning.