February 15, 2008
Bloody good 'Macbeth' may find a home on Broadway
 Don't read the reviews of the "Macbeth" at BAM - just do what you can to get a ticket.
The reviews are mostly good, but the problem is that many contain a spoiler -- yes, a spolier to a four hundred year old play! -- about a remarkable bit of staging that literally caused the audience to gasp during Wednesday night's performance.
(Yes, Newyorkology was there -- and recall you were warned to buy tickets before they sold out.)
However if you're not willing to shell out $500 or lurk in BAM's stand-by line, the Post offers a smidgen of hope that this amazing turn of "Macbeth" will hit a bigger Broadway theater this spring.
Also, here's hoping for a downloadable audio file of the "Double double toil and trouble" song, which Variety describes this way:
Goold stages the "Toil and trouble" incantation as a zombie rap, with J-Horror static playing across the back wall and Adam Cork's dense soundscape working overtime as the witches draw their deadly predictions out of body-bagged corpses on mortuary slabs. The play stars Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood as the scheming Macbeths. This version of the play got its start last fall at the Chichester Festival Theater and then moved to London's West End. It's booked at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through March 22.
Image source: BAM.
February 15, 2008 10:25 AM in Broadway
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