Talk To The Hand: Kevin Edition
Talk To The Hand: Kevin EditionClick here to see Kevin Spacey's wonderfully animated May 25 appearance on "The Late Show With David Letterman," in which at the 5 minute mark, the acclaimed actor tells how he deals with unruly audience members, including those with dreaded cell phones.
At the 7 minute mark, Spacey reveals how he held out his hand and called out an unruly audience member by finally saying "Enough." Yet another reason why I like this fine, and lately grossly underappreciated, actor!
Although the wildly successful (read: profitable) revival of A Moon For The Misbegotten became history on Tony night, Spacey fans willing to travel to London can get another live dose of him in 2008. Beginning in January, he'll be starring in the Old Vic's revival of David Mamet's Speed-The-Plow.
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Labels: A Moon For The Misbegotten, Broadway, First Word On New Show, Kevin Spacey, Late Show With David Letterman, London, Play, Revival, Speed-The-Plow, Talk To The Hand
posted by Steve On Broadway (SOB) @ Wednesday, June 20, 2007
4 Comments:
Coincidence! I was just recounting this story to Noah over supper. Letterman is fascinated by drunks in the theater and it always makes for a good story. Spacey can spin a good yarn, for sure.
And a good yarn it was! Now you know where to tell Noah to tune it to see it for himself!
I'm really hoping that Speed-the-plow comes to Broadway. I think it only has a three-person cast (a three-hander?) so, like A Moon for the Misbegotten, it would be relatively cheap to transfer. Hopefully, that's part of his thinking in picking the play! And I think the success of Moon shows that Kevin's still a draw on Broadway.
Of course, the first and only time Speed-The-Plow played the Great White Way (in 1988), it famously provided Madonna with her one and only Broadway appearance alongside Ron Silver and Joe Mantegna.
I missed the performance, but -- going full circle back to London -- I caught her in 2002 for her West End debut in Up For Grabs. I only wish I could be as charitable about her acting as I am to Kevin Spacey's.
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