Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick to star on Broadway together

A lifetime? Didn't they do "How to Succeed" together?

I don't need to see that!

...in a revival of Neil Simon’s “Plaza Suite.”

You're welcome, lazy whore.

1968's Plaza Suite? Really? Will Sarah Jessica be able to fill the shoes of Maureen Stapleton and Rosemary Harris?

Equus?

who's afraid of virginia woolf?

Her facelift is kind of severe, her eyebrows look like Divine's.

Has she ever gone back to the curly look in recent years? It would flatter her face shape, more.

Is this Christy Turlington's husband?

Nothing could flatter her face, except maybe a paper bag over it.

Divorce is what I see from the crystal ball.

Neil Simon? I doubt if anyone under the age of 40 will give a shit.

When I saw OP's headline I thought maybe it was going to be a revival of "War Horse."

How fabulous! What difference does it make what play they’re doing?

I saw them together in "How to Succeed" after SJP replaced Megan Mullally. SJP was wrong for the role, and her singing was lousy.

Well, at least it will keep the people at TKTS busy!!

Who will get top billing?

At last, a new revival of "Equus."

Neil Simon's plays are dated and simply don't hold up. Something a little more contemporary perhaps?

When I saw "Plaza" my first thought was that they were going to do Light In the Piazza. I thought it would be one of those swap shows where one night Sarah played the crazy mother and Matthew played the retarded daughter and then the next night they would switch.

"Our American Cousin" has probably held up better.

We already saw what happens when Matthew tries to do Neil Simon. Remember The Odd Couple?

I can already tell you what this show will be: Ferris Bueller meets Carrie Bradshaw!

I hope this is as successful as her recently cancelled flop HBO show. I believe it was Divorce, or maybe Divhorse.

What else will they be doing the week after the show opens? It won't be that.

Will the Widow Simon be attending rehearsals?

[quote]The 1968 comedy is being directed by the couple’s pal John Benjamin Hickey.

Does "pal" in this instance refer to sex buddy? I think Matthew and JBH hook up and Sarah is relieved that she doesn't have to bother.

They should do a reboot of the Addams Family. They look like a perfect Morticia and Gomez, and won't need makeup.

[quote]Will the Widow Simon be attending rehearsals?

"Sarah, I have a note for you from Neil, via my personal psychic."

[quote] We already saw what happens when Matthew tries to do Neil Simon.

Yes, he wins a Tony.

The Simon plays are very much of their time. They could get just as good of a response by performing a couple of episodes of Bewitched.

Matthew has such a calm and crystal clear singing voice. And he does harmonies so well.

Sorry to subject you to James Corden droning singing.

Wish there was an edit function. It would have been better to say that they should be performing a couple episodes of Mr. Ed

I would buy a ticket to that, R21.

Corden is the male Rosie O'Donnell.

What's wrong with the poor thing's face? Alien abduction?

Corden really must stink if Broderick's singing sounds good. Are you also a fan of Bronson Pinchot's larking?

She's starting to look like an ugly, low rent drag queen. I guess she got the face she deserves.

This is our karmic punishment for not demanding SATC3

If they're going to do dated Neil Simon, it should be The Prisoner of Second Avenue. The plot of an upper middle class couple's descent into madness lite was a pretty prescient commentary on the ultimate eradication of that strata in NYC.

It would be both a time capsule and a reminder that lots of regular real people used to live in Manhattan, and not that long ago. The way Simon dismantles his seemingly successful pair is a perfect metaphor for the loss of Manhattan's personality.

Plus the play is angry with some edge. Plaza Suite is a comic strip in comparison, which I guess is what they want.

It's a comic strip that gives 2 actors 3 different characters to play. I don't see either of them having the chops to be successful at it.

Broderick hasn't given a performance that doesn't feel fueled by xanax, weed and the banality of life since Ferris Bueller.

I'd never sit through this production, but have to admit, for show business, it's a pretty low-risk investment.

By Broadway standards, it will cost next to nothing to produce. They can run for weeks at half capacity to gullible tourists at an otherwise empty Broadway house. The producers should be able to make their money back quickly.

SJP and Broderick won't make much money nor win any awards, but they can get some publicity out of it. Frankly, what else are they going to do?

[quote]Frankly, what else are they going to do?

At this point in their careers, they're most suited to The Gin Game.

Didn’t Brad and Angie do that movie together just before the break up?

Neighborhood burglars will know they have eighty chances a week to get the goods.

[quote]If they're going to do dated Neil Simon, it should be The Prisoner of Second Avenue.

This was the first Neil Simon play I ever read (when I was in Junior High School). I loved it and I wonder why it wasn't more popular. I still love the movie. Anne Bancroft was *the* perfect interpreter of Neil Simon women. I wish she had done the movie of Brighton Beach Memoirs instead of WASPy Gwneth Paltrow's mother who was about as Jewish mother as Gandhi.

Update: EIGHT chances a week.

Matt is beginning to look like Dominick Dunne, and Sarah...well you know.

R9, that’s David Oliver her co-star in A Year in the Life.

R40 Didn't you you post practically the same thing almost verbatim on ATC?

[quote]Corden is the male Rosie O'Donnell.

No way. Corden has some talent. He was a co-writer of the wonderful British tv show "Gavin & Stacey." Rosie produced a movie about a retarded girl who rides the bus.

No R51. I don’t visit ATC. I actually posted it on the separate thread here on the announcement of the revival and copied it to this thread since the conversation was happening in both places.

I considered a qualifier, but decided the legal ramifications of my intellectual property was negligible.

IS HE STILL A FATTY?

Nathan would actually delineate the 3 different male characters better than Matthew, but then again, he'd still be Nathan Lane acting a bit differently, maybe a little pulled back, maybe acting a little straighter.

Sad to admit, but Neil Simon’s comedy has aged badly. The characters seem more irritating than funny. I know they were beloved in their day.

[quote]Sad to admit, but Neil Simon’s comedy has aged badly. The characters seem more irritating than funny.

True, that. Try sitting through the original "The Out of Towners." Jack Lemmon's character is insufferable throughout, and the whole movie is more excruciating than funny.

Simon has a lot of his characters say jokes in Simon's voice (or point of view) a lot of times, rather than that of the character's, and it sticks out more today than they did for yesterday's tired businessmen audiences.

I cant see this working because she's limited her range to one character. How is she going to play any other part, she's lost any actual identity to her commitment to 'living Carrie Bradshaw', this could be a great twist on the Baby Jane story with Matthew as the infirmed, that could be amazing! He's too old to be the Joe to her Norma, but makeup can do amazing things these days.

[quote] The plot of an upper middle class couple's descent into madness lite was a pretty prescient commentary on the ultimate eradication of that strata in NYC.

You mean "stratum."

The one Simon play that's never done is The Gingerbread Lady and I sorta liked that one when I read it in high school. It has a bit of an edge, too. They turned it into "Only When I Laugh" for the big screen, but I still haven't seen it.

Hey R60, thanks for the correction, Cicero. But what’s Latin for Oh, dear, and for that matter, asshole.

[quote]Simon has a lot of his characters say jokes in Simon's voice (or point of view) a lot of times

Simon's jokes are pure Borscht Belt humor. With the popularity of "Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" I wonder if "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" could get a revival? I'm trying to think who could pull it off believably. Those type of character actors no longer exist.

So I caught you out in a grammatical error, r52.

Try to get over your deeply wounded pride.

*Sorry--I meant r62, not r52.

This will pave the way for long-awaited revivals of both "California Suite" and "London Suite"!!

R62, seeing your simple error with the difference between RLXII and RLII, I hope we can amicably consider this DL brush up closed.

Yours, without deeply or superficially wounded pride

[quote]The one Simon play that's never done is The Gingerbread Lady and I sorta liked that one when I read it in high school.

"The Gingerbread Lady" was one of Neil Simon's least successful Broadway plays. I saw it at the Falmouth Playhouse on Cape Cod in the early '70s starring Maureen Stapleton as a boozy actress, the role she originated in the 1970 Broadway production. I was pretty young when I saw it and mostly recall that I was very, very bored by it. I think it was an early attempt by Simon to mix serious moments with Borscht Belt one-liners.

[quote]This will pave the way for long-awaited revivals of both "California Suite" and "London Suite"!!

Well, that sorts the Roundabout's schedule for the next five years.

Gwyneth Paltrow *is* Diana Nichols. Tom Hanks *is* Sidney Nichols.

I saw The Gingerbread Lady on tour with Shelley Winters babbling all the way through it. I only stayed because she was such a train wreck. The movie version, Only When I Laugh, was much better.

A first time Broadway director, an actor who has seemed medicated and barely trying in most of his recent stage appearances, a dated play and an actress who mostly is just a grating annoyance by now.....what could go wrong?

Isn't Matthew one of the people who was outed by that Black gay porn actor?

[quote]"The Gingerbread Lady" was one of Neil Simon's least successful Broadway plays. I saw it at the Falmouth Playhouse on Cape Cod in the early '70s starring Maureen Stapleton as a boozy actress

Come to think of it, Marsha Mason in "Only When I Laugh" is a boozy actress, but the character played by Maureen Stapleton in "The Gingerbread Lady" is a boozy cabaret singer. I think boozy singer = Judy Garland was the template Neil Simon had in mind. It was produced on Broadway a year after Garland's death.

So was Kristy McNichol playing Lorna or Liza or Joey?

I actually like Sarah (I know... I know...) but it's clear she prefers to stick to "safe" projects rather than stretching herself as an actress. Hence doing this dated Neil Simon play instead of doing a brand new play that could totally reinvent her image and lead to better roles down the line.

It's as if she still thinks of herself as a little girl. She doesn't want to do anything age appropriate. Even when she did Divorce, she didn't really play a 50 year old woman. She remains sexless which is funny considering her most famous credit has the word sex in it.

She's essentially Marie Osmond but without Marie's likability.

[quote]Who will get top billing?

Ginny.

How does the heinous John Benjamin Hickey keep getting jobs?

I don't know Hickey personally, but he was excellent and won the supporting Tony for "The Normal Heart "a few years ago, and he showed dick and everything in both stage and film version of "Love! Valour! Compassion!".

[quote]I actually like Sarah (I know... I know...) but it's clear she prefers to stick to "safe" projects rather than stretching herself as an actress.

The only thing she's interested in stretching is her face.

If you knew him personally you'd understand the heinous remark.

He's the ultimate sycophant. He makes insecure celebrities (Parker, Broderick, Natasha Richardson, Laura Linney, Allison Janney) feel appreciated so they want him around.

You mean like the way Mike Pence looks adoringly at Trump?

At least Hickey can act very well and is very good-looking.

r81=Hickey

R81 has a pathological need to somehow bring Trump into every thread no matter the topic. Even one about Sarah Jessica Parker and Broadway.

[quote]I actually like Sarah (I know... I know...) but it's clear she prefers to stick to "safe" projects rather than stretching herself as an actress.

Neil Simon is not as safe as she thinks. If you don't have the "ba-duh-dum" cadence to Neil Simon's dialogue, the jokes don't land.

If Sarah wanted to return to Broadway, she should have grabbed Matt Bomer and did a revival of "Sweet Bird of Youth." Roundabout would have kissed her ass up, down and sideways to produce that.

But, oops, our girl Kim was ahead of the curve and snagged the role.

I hate her for fucking JFK, Jr.

Why hasn't Seth Numrich become a star?

Who is Seth Numbnuts?

[quote]I hate her for fucking JFK, Jr.

Personally, I don't think she did. JFK could have had anyone. Why did he choose her? I think she acted as his beard while he experimented with the men. Or maybe he was in hot and heavy with Matthew Broderick.

R88 There is a similarity looks-wise between young Sarah Jessica Parker, young Daryl Hannah and the bitch he finally married. He obviously had a thing for willowy blondes.

So many fuckin haters in this thread. No comments back to me are wanted or needed....I said, shut the fuck up cunt lips

Is that you Kim?

[quote]He obviously had a thing for willowy blondes.

He may have, but the face? Daryl was pretty and Carolyn was "interesting" looking. But Sarah? Ooooooffff. How did he look her in the face?

They say that the posters here really don't know much about the theatre, but "I said, shut the fuck up cunt lips" is obviously quoting a line from the 2nd act of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite.

[Quote] How did he look her in the face?

I doubt that was ever an issue.

Quite big tits.

Young Sarrica was very sexy and cute. Beautiful body and pretty eyes and hair. Just a month ago people on here were bitching that she looked liked a worn out nag who had hit the wall hard. WELL, I see a complete brow and facelift on the woman now. She's lifted and pulled TIGHT. When did that happen? She's gonna look good in a few months. It is true that she's annoying and she never matured as an actress. But she was good in L.A. Story and The First Wives Club and Honeymoon in Vegas and as our beloved Carrie. May she and Matthew have a big success in this Paul Simon vehicle. I've never heard of his plays.

I also like SJP and can’t fully understand the hatred and insults here. I know she’s not the prettiest nor the most talented actress around and I hate that she’s friend with Andy Cohen. But I believe she has a good heart, very savvy, and anyone who strongly supported Hillary Clinton is 👌🏿 with me.

[quote]anyone who strongly supported Hillary Clinton is 👌🏿 with me.

Like the KKK?

With that hairstyle she could just be going with an old-timey tape pullback to get that full facelift look. We'll need to see more current photos to see if her summer vacation included lots of doctor visits.

Has SJP ever confirmed the rumor that she was the girlfriend who met JFK, Jr. at the airport wearing just a fur coat?

Yes, r100, now that my children are old enough to have easy internet access, I'm going to publicly confirm a decades-old rumor that would be embarrassing to my family.

National Velvet is being exhumed?

R101, The rumor has appeared in numerous articles and books, with SJP being named the most likely suspect.

Her children are going to read or hear about it eventually, if they haven't already, especially her son.

Besides, it's nothing to be embarrassed about. I'll bet many others now wish it were them.

OP's pic. THE BLONDING! barf

She's definitely had some work done recently. She no longer looks haggard and looks a bit like Gisele Bundchen.

She needs to ditch the black shit around her eyes. It just makes her look like an alien.

Without the smokey eyes, she is practically eyeless, they are so small and slitty.

Then she should have them widened with surgery like some Asians girls.

She was no beauty at the beginning of SATC but compared to now, wow! At least her eyes weren't so freaky and her horse face was a little shorter. I'm watching the uncut SATC seasons on Amazon and while she didn't look as good in Season 6 as Season 1 she didn't look like this. I know time is no friend to anyone but most of what she looks like now is self-inflicted. Time hasn't really been kind to any of the SATC actors but they don't look like they parked their spaceships on a street in Manhattan. BTW, Mr. Big, who I always found very handsome, looks like he's been hitting the bottle all these years. Actually the picture I saw of Kristin Davis (I think that's her name) looks to me like she held up the best. I read that she quit acting and does work to help others. Maybe that's why. However, SJP looks the worst.

R109, Did John Corbett have a stroke?

r109, in those photos SJP looks awful for many reasons. She is too old to have hair that long, and the "smoky eyes" look is dated and makes her look like a vampire. She has also had too much Botox and too many fiullers, and her skinniness makes her neck tendons really stick out.

I agree Kristin Davis looks great, and Kim Cattrall also looks good for her age. Cynthia Nixon was never a beauty, butb she has certainly lost the youthful bloom sheb used to haven (understndably). To me she looks quite a bit like Julie Harris as she ages.

The men mostly look good, although like SJP, Evan Handler has had too many fillers and too much botox. John Corbett looks like he's gained quite a bit of weight.

*Sorry, that should have read "Cynthia Nixon was never a beauty, but she has certainly lost the youthful bloom she used to haven (understandably)."

The earlier version looked like I was trying to approximate Mushmouth's way of speaking from "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids" through my typos.

I don't know if I should applaud her having a full face lift that probably involved removing part of her scalp and replaning of the skin while keeping the gigantic ever enlarging old lady schnoz, or to snark.

Oh, boy! "Plaza Suite"! YUMMERS!!!!

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First dress rehearsal photos are in.

Was The Star Spangled Girl unavailable?

I would honestly, truly rather see a production of "Our American Cousin."

They are perfect for The Vagina Monologues. The Taming of the Shrew

almost all actresses strongly supported Hillary so we need a new way to judge

Damn! David Eigenberg went from being boyishly sexy to looking like Mr. Rogers.

Anyone got $19 million?

I thought they were doing The Gin Game or On Golden Pond?

They shouldn't let the likes of Matthew Broderick star on Broadway

Are they doing a B'way version of Mr. Ed? Broderick of course will play Wilbur.

"My Friend Flicka: The Musical"

What's he wearing? and those glasses? Talk about "mannered"...

She is a shrew.

Sarah and Melissa Gilbert are two ugly lesbians who bearded for very handsome men. Melissa dated Tammy cruise and Rob lowe and Sarah dated Broderick and jfk jnr. Real life is so bizarre.

r123

I couldn't agree more

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