It’s the first Broadway revival for the Peter Shaffer play since its original 1974 New York run with Anthony Hopkins, Peter Firth and Marian Seldes, after which Hopkins was replaced by a long line of star names, including Tony Perkins and Richard Burton, the latter eventually doing the 1977 film version with Firth that was directed by Sidney Lumet.īut that, as they say, is but the tip of the turnip. Warren Carlyle directs and choreographs, hopefully in the words of Dickens doing “a far, far better thing than he has ever done before.”Īlso now in previews is “Equus,” the much-anticipated transfer from London directed by Thea Sharrock and starring Daniel Radcliffe, Richard Griffiths (“The History Boys”) and Kate Mulgrew it opens September 25 at the Broadhurst. It has music, lyrics and book by Jill Santoriello, sets by Tony Walton (a good sign) and a cast headed by the same two actors (James Barbour and Craig Bennett) who did the show during its 2007 premiere engagement in Sarasota, Fla. The first is the new and musicalized version of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities,” now previewing at the Al Hirschfeld ahead of its September 18 opening.
A Broadway street sign hangs in New York's Time's Square, November 29, 2007.
