Broadway is jumping this year, with plays such as, "The Coast Of Utopia, Grey Gardens and many more which I will go into at another time in upcomming posts. I am far too excited about the play by Tom Stoppard, The Coast Of Utopia. The Coast Of Utopia will be performed at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, at Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts, My true Alma Mater. at this time to focus on anything else. There is a good reason for a person to go on living this Broadway Theater season. It is a Tom Stoppard play.
A Trilogy by Tom Stoppard Directed by Jack O’Brien At the Vivian Beaumont Theater Address: 150 West 65th StreetNew York, NY 10023 January 30, 2007 to March 10, 2007 Running Time: 2 hours, 30 minutes Playing Schedule: Varies. Please see Performance Calendar Tickets: $100, $65On sale to Members: August 7, 2006On sale to the Public: September 10, 2006
In the mid-19th century as revolution swept across Europe, a group of Russian intellectuals, journalists, critics, philosophers, poets and their friends tried to topple the tsar for the cause of freedom. Stoppard’s epic follows these men and women over thirty years, as their intertwined lives, passions and dreams drive them in pursuit of perfection.
The Coast of Utopia features 70 roles played by 46 actors, covering three decades of Russian life and history. The Marathons present the complete trilogy, Voyage, Shipwreck, and Salvage, in a single day. In the mid-19th century as revolution swept across Europe, a group of Russian intellectuals, journalists, critics, philosophers, poets and their friends tried to topple the tsar for the cause of freedom. Stoppard’s epic follows these men and women over thirty years, as their intertwined lives, passions and dreams drive them in pursuit of perfection.
ABOUT THE COAST OF UTOPIA Tom Stoppard’s trilogy, The Coast of Utopia, will be performed over the course of six months, featuring 44 actors playing 70 roles, covering three decades of Russian life and history. The stellar cast includes Billy Crudup, Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, David Harbour, Jason Butler Harner, Ethan Hawke, Amy Irving, Brían F. O’Byrne, and Martha Plimpton.
Reviewing the original London production at the National Theatre in 2002, Newsweek said “’The Coast of Utopia’ dazzles with words and ideas.” And the Sunday Times of London wrote “Nobody in the theatre today can match Stoppard for a combination of sinuous argument, intellectual elan and sheer coruscating wit. The dialogue has a leaping, athletic energy: excitement of the mind and the heart.”
ABOUT VOYAGE, PART 1 The first part of the trilogy, Voyage, is Stoppard’s nod to Chekhov set at the grand Russian countryside estate of the Bakunin family. Four eligible sisters are under the sway of their charismatic brother, Michael, who interferes in their lives, while fervently seeking a greater purpose in his own. As his political and philosophical journey unfolds, Bakunin’s compatriots will include Vissarion Belinsky, George Herwegh, Karl Marx, Nicholas Ogarev, Nicholas Stankevich, Ivan Turgenev and, of particular note, the visionary leader Alexander Herzen.
ABOUT SHIPWRECK, PART 2 The second part of the trilogy, Shipwreck, centers on the visionary Russian leader Alexander Herzen and his fellow revolutionaries who find inspiration as well as frustration in exile in Paris and London. As the revolution of 1848 unfolds outside Herzen’s door and the tides of political and social upheaval swell, Herzen's circle, and his family, are profoundly affected.
ABOUT SALVAGE, PART 3 The third part of the trilogy, Salvage, brings maturity and resolution. As imperial Russia is set adrift with the freeing of the serfs, Alexander Herzen and the revolutionaries in his circle look back from the vantage point of their exile in England at their dreams of overturning the tsar, at the paths taken and not, and at the Russia of their memory.
Venue:Lincoln Center Theater-Vivian Beaumont150 West 65th Street (Between Broadway and Amsterdam)New York NY 10023Running Time:8 hours of theater over 12 hoursAudience:Appropriate for ages 12 +Children under the age of 5 are not permitted in the theatre.
Cast Members:Billy Crudup, Richard Easton, Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, David Harbour, Jason Butler Harner, Ethan Hawke, Amy Irving, Brían F. O’Byrne, Martha Plimpton.Bianca Amato, Mia Barron, Larry Bull, Denis Butkus, Michael Carlsen, Amanda Leigh Cobb, Anthony Cochrane, Patricia Conolly, David Cromwell, Adam Dannheisser, Matt Dickson, Aaron Krohn, Felicity LaFortune, Jennifer Lyon, David Manis, Andrew McGinn, Kellie Overbey, Scott Parkinson, David Pittu, Annie Purcell, Erika Rolfsrud, Brian Sgambati, Robert Stanton, Eric Sheffer Stevens, Baylen Thomas, David Christopher Wells
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