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Shows packed with stars
Shows packed with stars
Theatrefanboy1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/15
#1Shows packed with stars
Posted: 8/2/15 at 8:06pmI was just wondering if anyone can think of shows on broadway that were packed with multiple A-list Hollywood and broadway stars. The first two that come into my mind are The Best Man (james earl jones, angela Lansbury, John larroquette, Eric McCormack, Candice bergan, Kerry butler). And most recently, It's Only A Play (Nathan lane, matthew Broderick, stockard channing, Rupert grint, f Murray Abraham, Megan mullally). Any others that have really cashed in on the Stars to sell the show?
GreasedLightning
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#2Shows packed with stars
Posted: 8/2/15 at 8:55pmI think it depends on how one defines "A-list" celebrity. With your provided examples I would also throw in the recent Fish in the Dark or Of Mice and Men to your list. Both potentially tough sells without their name stars above the title.
#3Shows packed with stars
Posted: 8/2/15 at 9:04pm
The recent production of It's Only a Play like you mentioned was definitely a big one.
Updated On: 8/2/15 at 09:04 PM
#4Shows packed with stars
Posted: 8/2/15 at 9:11pm
Maybe A Delicate Balance? Glenn Close, John Lithgow and Martha Plimpton all have some name recognition.
GreasedLightning
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#5Shows packed with stars
Posted: 8/2/15 at 9:18pm
"The recent production of It's Only a Play?"
As mentioned in the OP's message?
Patty3
Featured Actor Joined: 2/24/07
#7Shows packed with stars
Posted: 8/3/15 at 3:06pmThis goes WAY back but what comes to mind is Rhonda Fleming, Dorothy Loudon, Kim Hunter, Myrna Loy and Alexis Smith in a revival of THE WOMEN in the '70's. Loved it. But the names didn't help this one run very long.
LarryD2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/14
#8Shows packed with stars
Posted: 8/3/15 at 3:24pm
I don't think any recent production can top Mike Nichols' 2001 production of The Seagull in Central Park: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Marsha Gay Harden, Christopher Walken, John Goodman, Stephen Spinella, Debra Monk.
Theatrefanboy1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/15
#9Shows packed with stars
Posted: 6/3/18 at 6:14pm
Well I guess to add to the list would be The Front Page. With Nathan Lane. Sherrie Rene Scott. John Goodman John Slatterly. Jefferson Mays. Holland Taylor and Robert Morse.
And.
The Boys in the Band with Matt Bomer. Zachary Quinta. Jim Parsons. And Andrew Randells.
Honestly, I’m loving these “name” casts.
Hoping for another.
#10Shows packed with stars
Posted: 6/3/18 at 6:22pm
Boys in the Band, Front Page, It's Only a Play, and The Best Man do all belong to this very interesting category of production that the OP is referring to. It's the kind of thing there they are actually using the NUMBER of stars as a selling point, not just the stars themselves. I personally wouldn't count something like Fish In The Dark. Yes, you had Rosie Perez and Rita Wilson, but Larry David was very much the center of it all.
And wow, that Seagull cast is staggering. I've enjoyed many of the productions they've done at SITP for the last few years. They get high quality casts with some notoriety. But I wish we could get the massive stars in the Delacorte again.
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#11Shows packed with stars
Posted: 6/3/18 at 7:03pm
Three Days of Rain (2006) had a star-studded cast (Julia Roberts, Paul Rudd, Bradley Cooper). (Unfortunately the production wasn't great.)
#12Shows packed with stars
Posted: 6/3/18 at 7:10pm
Depending on your perspective, the OBC of Rent now has a lot of A-list and Hollywood names.
#13Shows packed with stars
Posted: 6/4/18 at 7:18pm
The Threepenny Opera with Alan Cumming, Cyndi Lauper, Ana Gasteyer, Nellie McKay and Jim Dale.
It was an interesting production. I attended a performance when the sound board didn’t work.
I loved “The Best Man”. I’d also say the play, “The Trip To Bountiful”.
Elegance101
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/24/17
#14Shows packed with stars
Posted: 6/4/18 at 7:19pm
Hardly, but Meteor Shower had two big comedians and two big Broadway stars.
@z5
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/30/15
#16Shows packed with stars
Posted: 6/4/18 at 9:08pm
Memorable ones I've seen are
Front Page, It's Only A Play (although it wasn't a great show), Meteor shower, les Liaisons Dangereuses, Elephant Man, Blackbird,
bfreak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/6/11
#17Shows packed with stars
Posted: 6/4/18 at 9:15pmThe Price last year was a fairly starry production with Mark Ruffalo, Danny DeVito, and Tony Shalhoub all worthy above the title names.
SomethingPeculiar
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/15/14
#18Shows packed with stars
Posted: 6/4/18 at 9:56pm
IT'S ONLY A PLAY was that rare combination of stars where there was someone that appealed to audiences from ages 8 to 88. That original cast could have run for 2 years (though it lost momentum after Nathan Lane/Rupert Grint/Megan Mullally left and never regained it when Lane returned)
