Posted on 06/17/2019 4:39:07 PM PDT by EdnaMode
“Hillary and Clinton,” a Broadway play that explores the relationship of a political power couple, will close on Sunday, four weeks earlier than scheduled.
The play, by Lucas Hnath, stars Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow and is directed by Joe Mantello. It opened in April; at the time of its closing it will have played 37 previews and 77 regular performances at the John Golden Theater.
Set a hotel room in New Hampshire in 2008, the play imagines an interaction between Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton — not the real ones, but characters with the same names in an alternate universe — talking about her struggling campaign for president that year.
The play, with Scott Rudin as a lead producer, cost $4.2 million to capitalize; that money has not been recouped. It is the third play that Mr. Rudin has shuttered in rapid succession this spring, following the early closings of a “King Lear” revival and the new play “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus.”
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If the actress playing Hillary isn’t throwing ash trays, and lamps at the actor playing Bill it isn’t true to life.
The Greatest Crime Couple in the history of the republic.
I loved the rug munching scene.
Wow, this play can’t sell tickets, the evening with the Clintons tour had trouble selling out......
Maybe anything associated with the Clintons just doesn’t sell anymore?????
Not even with the star power of Laurie Metcalf (Rosanne) and John Lithgow (Third Rock from the Sun) could it stay open.
I wonder why they didn’t just buy up all the tickets, and pay people to sit in the seats and pretend to be entertained by the propaganda?
That’s what they do with their “best selling book” money laundering schemes?
Seriously. Love them or hate them, who in the world thinks Barmy and Clod are interesting enough to write a play about them? And who would have the cast-iron stomach to sit through it?
Bingo. I was reading where Chelsea and her mother now want to start their own TV channel. They are both clueless. I’d be willing to bet they’re going to run into problems twisting investors’ arms since they sure as heck aren’t going to use their own money for their fiasco.
They ban always make it a peepshow in the red light district.
They have no influence to peddle so no one cares about them.
Good point. Doubt they had the guts to put that in the show.
Thanks, you beat me to it, I had hoped they had plenty of lamps, ash trays and other projectiles for “Hillary” to throw.
Thanks, you beat me to it, I had hoped they had plenty of lamps, ash trays and other projectiles for “Hillary” to throw.
The Clintons should do a series about themselves on the Investigation Discovery Channel. People love real crime shows.
Too bad, so sad.
It would probably be a success, although these criminals could never come clean and tell a “true” story.
LOCK THEM UP!
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