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AL'S UPCOMING FILM AND STAGE EVENTS
Orphans Will Bow on Broadway in 2009; Pacino
Will Likely Star
By
Andrew Gans
April
11, 2008
It
looks like Tony and Academy Award winner Al Pacino, who was most recently on Broadway in the 2003 revival of Salome, will
return to the Great White Way in 2009 in the Broadway bow of Lyle Kessler's taut three-hander, Orphans.
Performances,
a casting notice indicates, will begin at a Shubert theatre-to-be-announced in early January 2009. David Esbjornson, who directed
the Broadway stagings of The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia and The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, will helm the production. Producers are Frederick Zollo, Jeffrey Sine and Bill Kenwright.
The
play, Kessler's best known, is about Harold, a shady businessman who is kidnapped by Treat and Phillip, two brothers —
one a predatory and domineering thief, the other an innocent man-child — who have raised themselves without the benefit
of parents. After a short time, however, the wily Harold turns the tables and begins to dictate the course of the brothers'
lives.
Pacino,
according to the casting notice, will portray Harold. A call and e-mail to Pacino's press agent were not returned as of press
time.
Orphans
premiered in 1983 at Los Angeles' Matrix Theatre and won the Drama-Logue Award there. Its reputation was truly made, however,
through a subsequent production at the then-young Steppenwolf Theatre Company. John Mahoney starred as Harold, with Terry
Kinney and Kevin Anderson as Treat and Phillip in an explosive production directed by Gary Sinise. The show subsequently traveled
to New York and London, where it helped establish Steppenwolf's signature "rock and roll" brand of theatre, as well as Kessler's
status as a playwright. Pacino headed the cast of a Los Angeles workshop of Kessler's
drama in 2005 at the Greenway Court Theatre.
Al
Pacino was most recently on Broadway in Oscar Wilde's Salome: The Reading. He made his Broadway debut in the 1969 production
of Does a Tiger Wear Necktie?, earning a Tony Award for his performance. He scored another Tony for his role in the 1977 revival
of The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. Prior to Salome, the stage and film actor was last on Broadway in 1996 in a revival
of Hughie, which he also directed. Pacino's other Broadway credits include Camino Real, King Richard III, American Buffalo
and Chinese Coffee. He received the Academy Award for his work in the film "Scent of a Woman."
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Pacino To Play Salvador Dali
Al Pacino will play Salvador Dali in Dali & I:
The Surreal Story to be directed by Andrew Niccol.
The movie will span the 1960s-80s, a time when most of Dali's great
work was behind him and he became more flamboyant. The story will also focus on the mentor-protege relationship between Dali
and a young art dealer named Stan Lauryssens. Niccol will also rewrite the script originally written by John Salvati based
on Lauryssens' memoir "Dali and I". Shooting is scheduled to start in June.
*Source: The Hollywood Reporter, dated 1-19-07
....and speaking of Al Pacino....
AL PACINO: In Conversation with Lawrence Grobel |
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FOREWORD |
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I met Larry Grobel in 1979. He came to interview
me. I was of course mistrustful of him since he was a journalist interviewing me and at that time, I had never done an interview.
I have since come to know him very well. We've shared many things over this period: successes, failures, encounters with situations
both wonderful and unthinkable. Our friendship has survived it all. And, for that I am very grateful. |
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I had not yet said yes to our first interview but when
I read his interview with Marlon Brando on Brando's island in Tahiti I was impressed. Knowing Marlon as I did, if he liked
Larry, if he could speak to him so openly, I felt that I could. Larry walked into my apartment which was in shambles. I offered
him my half eaten doughnut. He enjoyed it. We sat down to talk. And what was remarkable about Larry is, at the end of the
interview I knew more about him than he did of me. I have learned to appreciate his manner, his style over the years. Some
of which is shocking. But, you accept it because it's Larry. He persists but never with guile. He has a genuine interest in
people which is why he's such a good writer. He has taken an interest in me for some reason. |
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Still, I'm trying to figure out why it's so easy
to talk to him, to confide in him. That's his talent, I guess. |
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Larry and I know each other very well (as well as
anyone knows anybody). We have forgiven each other many times. I have forgiven him for writing this book. I hope he forgives
me for writing this foreword. |
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--Al Pacino |
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***Al Pacino is an intensely personal
window into the life of an artist concerned more with the process of his art than with the fruits of his labor, a creative
genius at the peak of his artistic powers who, after all these years, still longs to grow and learn more about his craft.
And, for now, it's as close to a memoir as we're likely to get.
Product Details
Simon
Spotlight Entertainment, Available date: September 2006
Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN-10: 1-4169-1211-8
ISBN-13:
978-1-4169-1211-8
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