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Highlights From The Normal Heart
Larry Kramer's groundbreaking drama about "a city in denial" during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic finally receives a Broadway production after 26 years. Tony-winning director Joe Mantello makes a rare return to acting as Ned Weeks, a hot-headed activist trying — along with a tight-knit group of friends — to get doctors, politicians and the press to address the impending AIDS crisis in 1980s New York City. Tony and Oscar-winning actor Joel Grey (who starred in the original Public Theater version of The Normal Heart in 1985) co-directs with Tony-winning director George C. Wolfe.
Thursday 28 April 2011
Wednesday 27 April 2011
Advocate.com - 27/Apr/2011
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Luke Macfarlane, Lee Pace, Jim Parsons, Ellen Barkin, and the rest of the all-star cast of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart took time out from a promotional shoot to talk about the importance of the show being staged on Broadway 26 years after its off-Broadway debut and what it means to each of them.
“I believe the play has a perspective now that is really meaningful,” Pace said. His costar Wayne Alan Wilco, thinks history “is cyclical, and it just keeps coming around, and we need these stories to be told again and again and again.”
Parsons was thrilled to be making his Broadway debut in this show, while Macfarlane remembered studying it in school and desperately wanting to be a part of it one day.
Watch the video below, and also watch a video of Barbra Streisand introducing a reading of the play in 1993.
Meet the Cast of The Normal Heart
By Advocate.com Editors“I believe the play has a perspective now that is really meaningful,” Pace said. His costar Wayne Alan Wilco, thinks history “is cyclical, and it just keeps coming around, and we need these stories to be told again and again and again.”
Parsons was thrilled to be making his Broadway debut in this show, while Macfarlane remembered studying it in school and desperately wanting to be a part of it one day.
Watch the video below, and also watch a video of Barbra Streisand introducing a reading of the play in 1993.
Broadway.com - 27/Apr/2011
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Broadway Pulses With the Beat of The Normal Heart on Opening Night
Broadway Pulses With the Beat of The Normal Heart on Opening Night
On April 27, 2011, The Normal Heart opened at Broadway's Golden Theatre.
LIFE - 27/Apr/2011
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"The Normal Heart" Broadway Opening Night - Arrivals & Curtain Call
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 27: Cast members (L-R) Wayne Alan Wilcox, Richard Topol, Jim Parsons, Ellen Barkin, Joe Mantello, John Benjamin Hickey, Mark Harelik, Patrick Breen, Lee Pace, and Luke Macfarlane take their curtain call at the Broadway opening night of 'The Normal Heart' at The Golden Theatre on April 27, 2011 in New York City.
"The Normal Heart" Broadway Opening Night - Arrivals & Curtain Call
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 27: Cast members (L-R) Wayne Alan Wilcox, Richard Topol, Jim Parsons, Ellen Barkin, Joe Mantello, John Benjamin Hickey, Mark Harelik, Patrick Breen, Lee Pace, and Luke Macfarlane take their curtain call at the Broadway opening night of 'The Normal Heart' at The Golden Theatre on April 27, 2011 in New York City.
Monday 25 April 2011
Broadway World.com - 25/Apr/2011
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Photo Flash: THE NORMAL HEART Production Shots!
Monday, April 25, 2011; Posted: 03:04 PM - by BWW News Desk
Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart opens on Broadway on Wednesday, April 27 for a 12-week engagement at the John Golden Theatre. Previews began April 19, 2011. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you the production shots!
The story of a city in denial, The Normal Heart unfolds like a real-life political thriller -- as a tight-knit group of friends refuses to let doctors, politicians, and the press bury the truth of an unspoken epidemic behind a wall of silence. First produced by Joseph Papp at New York's Public Theater, the play was a critical sensation and a seminal moment in theater history. So ahead of its time was this play that many of the core issues it addresses - including gay marriage, the healthcare system and, of course, AIDS - are just as relevant today as they were when it first premiered.
The cast of The Normal Heart includes Ellen Barkin (Ocean's 13), Patrick Breen (Next Fall), Mark Harelik (Mrs. Warren's Profession), John Benjamin Hickey ("The Big C"), Luke Macfarlane ("Brothers and Sisters"), Joe Mantello (Angels in America), Lee Pace ("Pushing Daisies"), Jim Parsons ("The Big Bang Theory"), Richard Topol (The Merchant of Venice), and Wayne Alan Wilcox (Coram Boy).
The design team includes David Rockwell (sets), Martin Pakledinaz (costumes), David Weiner (lighting), David Van Tieghem (sound), and Batwin & Robin (projections).
Tickets, priced from $26.50 to $116.50, are available via Telecharge.com, by calling (212) 239-6200, or in person at the Golden Theatre box office (252 West 45th Street). General rush tickets are available for $36.50 at the box office on a first come, first served basis the day of the performance. (Limit two tickets per person; cash or credit card.)
The weekly performance schedule is as follows: Tuesday at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday at 8:00 p.m., Thursday at 8:00 p.m., Friday at 8:00 p.m., Saturday at 2:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m., and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
The premiere presentation of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart on Broadway is produced by Daryl Roth, Paul Boskind and Martian Entertainment in association with Gregory Rae and Jayne Baron Sherman/Alexander Fraser.
For more information, visit www.TheNormalHeartBroadway.com.
Photo Credit: Joan Marcus
Lee Pace, Ellen Barkin, Wayne Alan Wilcox, Patrick Breen, Jim Parsons, Joe Mantello, John Benjamin Hickey, Luke Macfarlane, Richard Topol and Mark Harelik
Lee Pace, Jim Parsons, Joe Mantello and Patrick Breen
Jim Parsons and Lee Pace
Luke Macfarlane, Jim Parsons and Patrick Breen
Photo Flash: THE NORMAL HEART Production Shots!
Monday, April 25, 2011; Posted: 03:04 PM - by BWW News Desk
Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart opens on Broadway on Wednesday, April 27 for a 12-week engagement at the John Golden Theatre. Previews began April 19, 2011. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you the production shots!
The story of a city in denial, The Normal Heart unfolds like a real-life political thriller -- as a tight-knit group of friends refuses to let doctors, politicians, and the press bury the truth of an unspoken epidemic behind a wall of silence. First produced by Joseph Papp at New York's Public Theater, the play was a critical sensation and a seminal moment in theater history. So ahead of its time was this play that many of the core issues it addresses - including gay marriage, the healthcare system and, of course, AIDS - are just as relevant today as they were when it first premiered.
The cast of The Normal Heart includes Ellen Barkin (Ocean's 13), Patrick Breen (Next Fall), Mark Harelik (Mrs. Warren's Profession), John Benjamin Hickey ("The Big C"), Luke Macfarlane ("Brothers and Sisters"), Joe Mantello (Angels in America), Lee Pace ("Pushing Daisies"), Jim Parsons ("The Big Bang Theory"), Richard Topol (The Merchant of Venice), and Wayne Alan Wilcox (Coram Boy).
The design team includes David Rockwell (sets), Martin Pakledinaz (costumes), David Weiner (lighting), David Van Tieghem (sound), and Batwin & Robin (projections).
Tickets, priced from $26.50 to $116.50, are available via Telecharge.com, by calling (212) 239-6200, or in person at the Golden Theatre box office (252 West 45th Street). General rush tickets are available for $36.50 at the box office on a first come, first served basis the day of the performance. (Limit two tickets per person; cash or credit card.)
The weekly performance schedule is as follows: Tuesday at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday at 8:00 p.m., Thursday at 8:00 p.m., Friday at 8:00 p.m., Saturday at 2:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m., and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
The premiere presentation of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart on Broadway is produced by Daryl Roth, Paul Boskind and Martian Entertainment in association with Gregory Rae and Jayne Baron Sherman/Alexander Fraser.
For more information, visit www.TheNormalHeartBroadway.com.
Photo Credit: Joan Marcus
Lee Pace, Ellen Barkin, Wayne Alan Wilcox, Patrick Breen, Jim Parsons, Joe Mantello, John Benjamin Hickey, Luke Macfarlane, Richard Topol and Mark Harelik
Lee Pace, Jim Parsons, Joe Mantello and Patrick Breen
Jim Parsons and Lee Pace
Luke Macfarlane, Jim Parsons and Patrick Breen
Wednesday 20 April 2011
Advocate.com - 20/Apr/2011
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The Broadway cast of The Normal HeartThe Normal Heart, Larry Kramer’s seminal 1985 play about the dawn of the AIDS crisis, is finally beating on Broadway. Directed by Joel Grey and George C. Wolfe, the production, which officially opens April 27, stars celebrated Broadway actor-director Joe Mantello as activist Ned Weeks, leading a starry cast that includes Ellen Barkin, John Benjamin Hickey, Lee Pace, Jim Parsons, and Luke Macfarlane. Following the first preview performance on April 19, volunteers positioned outside the intimate John Golden Theatre handed out copies of a typed letter from the 75-year-old playwright. Here is that letter in its entirety:
The Broadway cast of The Normal HeartA letter from Larry Kramer
PLEASE KNOW
Thank you for coming to see our play.
Please know that everything in The Normal Heart happened. These were and are real people who lived and spoke and died, and are presented here as best I could. Several more have died since, including Bruce, whose name was Paul Popham, and Tommy, whose name was Rodger McFarlane and who became my best friend, and Emma, whose name was Dr. Linda Laubenstein. She died after a return bout of polio and another trip to an iron lung. Rodger, after building three gay/AIDS agencies from the ground up, committed suicide in despair. On his deathbed at Memorial, Paul called me (we’d not spoken since our last fight in this play) and told me to never stop fighting.
Four members of the original cast died as well, including my dear sweet friend Brad Davis, the original Ned, whom I knew from practically the moment he got off the bus from Florida, a shy kid intent on becoming a fine actor, which he did.
Please know that AIDS is a worldwide plague.
Please know that no country in the world, including this one, especially this one, has ever called it a plague, or dealt with it as a plague.
Please know that there is no cure.
Please know that after all this time the amount of money being spent to find a cure is still miniscule, still almost invisible, still impossible to locate in any national health budget, and still totally uncoordinated.
Please know that here in America case numbers continue to rise in every category. In much of the rest of the world — Russia, India, Southeast Asia, Africa — the numbers of the infected and the dying are so grotesquely high they are rarely acknowledged.
Please know that all efforts at prevention and educations continue their unending record of abject failure.
Please know that there is no one in charge of this plague. This is a war for which there is no general and for which there has never been a general. How can you win a war with no one in charge?
Please know that beginning with Ronald Reagan (who would not say the word “AIDS” publicly for seven years), every single president has said nothing and done nothing, or in the case of the current president, says the right things and then doesn’t do them.
Please know that most medications for HIV/AIDS are inhumanly expensive and that government funding for the poor to obtain them is dwindling and often unavailable.
Please know that pharmaceutical companies are among the most evil and greedy nightmares ever loosed on humankind. What “research” they embark upon is calculated only toward finding newer drugs to keep us, just barely, from dying, but not to make us better or, god forbid, cured.
Please know that an awful lot of people have needlessly died and will continue to needlessly die because of any and all of the above.
Please know that the world has suffered at the very least some 75 million infections and 35 million deaths. When the action of the play that you have just seen begins, there were 41.
I have never seen such wrongs as this plague, in all its guises, represents, and continues to say about us all.
Larry Kramer
For more information, visit TheNormalHeartBroadway.com
Larry Kramer: Please Know
By Brandon VossThe Broadway cast of The Normal Heart
The Broadway cast of The Normal Heart
PLEASE KNOW
Thank you for coming to see our play.
Please know that everything in The Normal Heart happened. These were and are real people who lived and spoke and died, and are presented here as best I could. Several more have died since, including Bruce, whose name was Paul Popham, and Tommy, whose name was Rodger McFarlane and who became my best friend, and Emma, whose name was Dr. Linda Laubenstein. She died after a return bout of polio and another trip to an iron lung. Rodger, after building three gay/AIDS agencies from the ground up, committed suicide in despair. On his deathbed at Memorial, Paul called me (we’d not spoken since our last fight in this play) and told me to never stop fighting.
Four members of the original cast died as well, including my dear sweet friend Brad Davis, the original Ned, whom I knew from practically the moment he got off the bus from Florida, a shy kid intent on becoming a fine actor, which he did.
Please know that AIDS is a worldwide plague.
Please know that no country in the world, including this one, especially this one, has ever called it a plague, or dealt with it as a plague.
Please know that there is no cure.
Please know that after all this time the amount of money being spent to find a cure is still miniscule, still almost invisible, still impossible to locate in any national health budget, and still totally uncoordinated.
Please know that here in America case numbers continue to rise in every category. In much of the rest of the world — Russia, India, Southeast Asia, Africa — the numbers of the infected and the dying are so grotesquely high they are rarely acknowledged.
Please know that all efforts at prevention and educations continue their unending record of abject failure.
Please know that there is no one in charge of this plague. This is a war for which there is no general and for which there has never been a general. How can you win a war with no one in charge?
Please know that beginning with Ronald Reagan (who would not say the word “AIDS” publicly for seven years), every single president has said nothing and done nothing, or in the case of the current president, says the right things and then doesn’t do them.
Please know that most medications for HIV/AIDS are inhumanly expensive and that government funding for the poor to obtain them is dwindling and often unavailable.
Please know that pharmaceutical companies are among the most evil and greedy nightmares ever loosed on humankind. What “research” they embark upon is calculated only toward finding newer drugs to keep us, just barely, from dying, but not to make us better or, god forbid, cured.
Please know that an awful lot of people have needlessly died and will continue to needlessly die because of any and all of the above.
Please know that the world has suffered at the very least some 75 million infections and 35 million deaths. When the action of the play that you have just seen begins, there were 41.
I have never seen such wrongs as this plague, in all its guises, represents, and continues to say about us all.
Larry Kramer
For more information, visit TheNormalHeartBroadway.com
Tuesday 19 April 2011
broadway.com - 19/Apr/2011
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Elton John AIDS Foundation President David Furnish Checks Out First Preview of The Normal Heart
Another TV vet, Luke MacFarlane of Brothers & Sisters, is making his Broadway debut in The Normal Heart.
Elton John AIDS Foundation President David Furnish Checks Out First Preview of The Normal Heart
Another TV vet, Luke MacFarlane of Brothers & Sisters, is making his Broadway debut in The Normal Heart.
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