Playbill / Program Date Feb 2020 BroadwayĬondition: Used Good 8/10 40 Pages Please Note You are Buying a Souvenir Program The Minutes Broadway Cast - Ian Barford, Blair Brown, Cliff Chamberlain, K Todd Freeman, Armie Hammer, Tracy Letts, Danny McCarthy, Jessie Mueller, Sally Murphy, Austin Pendleton, Jeff Still The play also won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama the same year. Shapiro and Letts worked together on Letts’ “August: Osage County,” for which Shapiro won the Tony Award for best direction of a play in 2008. Shapiro, who helmed the premiere production of the play at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Ill. After all, the smallest towns keep the biggest secrets. At 90 minutes long, the play will include a cast of 11 actors. Tracy Letts’s new play takes a look at the inner-workings of a city council meeting in the small town of Big Cherry – and the hypocrisy, greed, and ambition that follow, proving that everything you know can change – it’s just a matter of minutes. Our list is completely spam free, and you can opt out at any time.The Minutes - Cort Theatre Broadway Feb 2020 by Tracy Letts To subscribe, type your email address in the box below and click the “create subscription” button. If you would like to keep in touch with what’s happening in Chicago, like us on Facebook or subscribe to Show Me Chicago by email. Where: Steppenwolf Theatre Downstairs, 1650 N. Rush Tickets: Half-price rush tickets are available one hour before each show. Twenty $20 tickets are available on the day of the performance by phone only at 31. Tickets: T ickets are available through Audience Services at 31 or online. The hope of “The Minutes”is that it will serve as a spring board for discussions about our history and help us take an honest look at what really happened in our past and what we plan to do about it. “The Minutes”does an excellent job of exploring the myths people use to hide from the uncomfortable truth about the past by creating a fake history in order to live a comfortable life. Johnson) is the perfect straight-laced–go by the rules clerk who is careful not to let her true feelings be known. Peel) seems to be the right man to get to the important issues as he pounds away searching for the truth until he finds it. Assalon) is the force behind a questionable bicycle scam while, Cliff Chamberlain (as Mr. Blake), gives the feeling he has something he’d like to say but int the end goes along with the popular opinion Jeff Still (as Mr. Breeding), serves as a yes man James Vincent Meredith (as Mr. Innes), is all about making sure the Big Cherry Heritage Festival continues Kevin Anderson (as Mr. Hanratty) who tries to convince the council to get behind his elaborate plan for an accessible city-center fountain named after the town’s hero from the “fake” past Penny Slusher (as Ms. Oldfield) who is more worried about who will get access to an undesignated parking space than the business at hand then there’s Danny McCarthy (as Mr. There’s long-time council member Francis Guinan (as Mr. Petersen is joined by a stellar line-up of council members that could be typical of aldermen in any middle-class, mid-sized town in America who spend too much time on small issues while ignoring the big picture. The council, lead with a powerful performance by Mayor Superba (William Petersen), tries to continue with business as usual hoping to silence Peel. He continues to question the missing minutes and the disappearance of Mr. Carp he is told the minutes weren’t completed. Carp and “the minutes” missing.Īs he digs deep to find out what happened to the minutes and Mr. Peel (Cliff Chamberlain) returns to the council after missing the last meeting and finds both Mr. Carp (Ian Barford) the council goes to extremes to hide the truth. Nothing is small about the small-town politics in “Big Cherry” where the City Council is, once again, making plans to celebrate its “fake” past with the Big Cherry Heritage Festival that is based on a myth that has been handed down for generations. Letts uses the lens of the mid-sized town of “Big Cherry” to expose the ugliness behind some of our most closely-held American narratives with the action taking place in the town’s city council hall that is similar to many in mid-America, designed by David Zinn, who based his design on Peoria, Illinois’ city council. Tracy Letts, the writer of Linda Vista and August: Osage County, captures the pulse of politics in today’s America with his scathing new comedy “The Minutes” now running at Steppenwolf Theatre and slated for Broadway this spring.
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