“It’s not like we’re angelic women who come down and teach the bad man, and I think that’s important to me right now, too. “Tracy’s written every character in a very well-rounded way,” she told Variety on the red carpet. For Cora Vander Broek, who plays Wheeler’s girlfriend Jules, that equity is what elevates “Linda Vista” to a meaningful conversation about sex and gender. To counterbalance Wheeler is a cast of well-adjusted, self-respecting, mature, though equally flawed, women. Yet, it’s not immediately evident why a play about a middle-aged, straight white man with an identity crisis is a worthy sell for Broadway, however deep Letts’ observations about a flawed modern masculinity may be. “Not because he’s a bad person or just a point-blank hypocrite, but because of perception. And so that dichotomy was interesting for me, the idea of a guy who talks a big game about integrity and yet isn’t necessarily living that good game,” Letts continued. “And I feel absolutely correct and right and proper in those things and thoughts, and yet personally I’ve often in my life conducted myself in a way that’s not ethical, not correct, especially in matters of love. For me, in the early going, it was a moment of considering myself and some of my own flaws, thinking about the way I feel about my view on politics, my good, lefty liberal, staunch liberal values,” he considered. I mean, the truth is that when I started writing the character, there was some talk about Wheeler’s Trump jokes, how he jokes about and disparages Trump. Our vision gets blurred by our experience, our defenses and hurt. “It’s about how we see others and how we see ourselves. “It’s a play about seeing,” he said, still leaning over the bar a few steps from the after-party red carpet. That incongruity is what interested Letts. Flailing in the midst of a mid-life crisis, Wheeler is a complicated character who, despite a tragic inability to see beyond himself, genuinely wants to do right by those around him. Wheeler, played on Broadway by Ian Barford, a longtime collaborator of Letts’ who also starred in “August: Osage County,” is a divorcee, an absent father, and a haphazard womanizer bent on mining his own self-worth from shallow intimacy. “I think Wheeler is in some ways a version of a guy I might have turned out to be had I not made some good decisions in life. So, when you ask about autobiography, it’s kind of like alternate-universe autobiography.” And there’s something about being at that place in your life - I don’t think it’s unnatural to want to take stock, to think about what makes me, me,” he considered as his wife, award-winning actress Carrie Coon, joined him at his side. I’m 54 now, and 50 is kind of a profound moment, when you’ve got enough of your life and experiences behind you and enough of you ahead, but the end is out there. Johnson, Emily Dobbs, Robert Flicker, Jacob Soroken Porter, and The Shubert Organization.“It’s probably something about being in my middle-age,” he said, darkly. Lane/Bonnie Comley/Leah Lane, Kathleen K. The producing team is led by Jeffrey Richards, Rebecca Gold, Carl Moellenberg, Spencer Ross, Louise Gund with Jayne Baron Sherman, Elizabeth Armstrong, Blakeman Entertainment, HornosBerger, Across the River Productions, Stewart F. The Minutes, which premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 2017, takes a look at the inner workings of a city council meeting and the hypocrisy, greed, and ambition that bubble to the surface when a newcomer to the small town of Big Cherry starts to ask the wrong questions. Serving on the creative team are scenic designer David Zinn, costume designer Ana Kuzmanic, lighting designer Brian MacDevitt, sound designer and composer André Pluess, hair and wig designer Tom Watson, and dramaturg Edward Sobel. PHOTOS: Check Out Armie Hammer, Jessie Mueller, and More in The Minutes on Broadway Todd Freeman, Armie Hammer, Danny McCarthy, Jessie Mueller, Sally Murphy, Austin Pendleton, and Jeff Still. By confirming a new opening date, producers hope it will maintain the original Broadway cast, including Letts, Ian Barford, Blair Brown, Cliff Chamberlain, K. Todd Freeman, and Sally Murphy in The Minutes Michael BrosilowĪs of now, the creative team of The Minutes remains intact.
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