Monday, November 15, 2010
CONNECTIONS
This is a bit of inside baseball but I just read the NYT review of
which just opened on Broadway with Al Pacino as Shylock and Lily Rabe as Portia.
It is, apparently a triumph for both in a very well directed play.
Lily Rabe is the daughter of the playwright David Rabe and the actress Jill Clayburgh who died, last week, at the young age of 66.
Pacino and Clayburgh were, for a season or two, in the repertory company of The Charles Playhouse in Boston and I had the pleasure of seeing them work together in a number of productions.
They were young and fresh and very exciting. The Charles put on great shows. They were often experimental theater or plays that were to the left of center. They always left me thinking and roiling after a performance. I can still remember a few scenes. Astounding.
This would be 1968-72. I looked it up here.
It isn't a big deal, but there cannot help but be a wonderful connection between the two actors over this.
That Al worked with the mom and now works with the daughter right after the mom's death and that they have a big hit in a very old play. Wow.
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