What's In the Theatre

New York City’s Delacorte Theater has never seen the like.  Just minutes into Bertolt Brecht’s plat Mother Courage and Her Children, theatergoers had had enough.

Earlier this week fans got a sneak preview of the play starring Meryl Streep & Kevin Kline & they didn’t like what they peeked.  Despite many patrons waiting in line for hours to see the show, some became so bored during the long production they simply walked out.  Ouch, that’s gotta sting a bit. 

The New York Post reports that around 100 members of the 1,892-strong audience left early, with one member saying, “Meryl is brilliant, but the play itself is boring, tortuous–it needs judicious cutting.

“A number of people left after 20 minutes. Many didn’t return after intermission and then, three hours in, during a long song by Kevin Kline, they were pouring out.”

Arlee Kriv, the show’s publicist, was indignant of any cuts, saying, “The show is what it is–a long show.”

Kline took over the role of The Cook from Christopher Walken, who dropped out last month because he was able to recognize a sinking ship when he saw one.

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Just a quick Harry Potter update for all those fan out there, me included.  It looks like Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is set for a Thanksgiving, 2008 release.  Don’t worry, we can get through this long wait together.

Now all we need to find out is the director & cast for the sixth installment of the lucrative franchise.  And that info might be a while too, since Warner Bros. doesn’t even know.  Meanwhile I guess we’ll just have to wait for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix coming out July 2007. 

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Samuel L. Jackson is tickled pink that the anticipated summer action film Snakes on a Plane was called back for re-shoots so that movie execs could add more profanity & sex to the film.

Jackson felt that the mid-air thriller should be grittier & is delighted they added a mile-high-club sex scene.

Jackson states, “There’s always the obligatory nude scene somewhere, where the guy’s creeping up on the people making love.

“In this instance we have the snake creeping up on two people joining the mile-high club.”

He adds, “This is the kind of film that I would have gone to the movies on Saturday, to the first screening, to see as a kid and I’d stay all day, watching it three or four times and me and my friends would have been freaked out.”

Until the third time you watch it & you think, “Gee.  This is just a simple-plotted movie about snakes on a plane trying to kill people.”

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