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Победное шествие пьесы продолжается , теперь в Hartford TheatreWorks March 25.
Kyle Fabel and Aaron Roman Weiner co-star in the 90-minute production.Fabel (The Farnsworth Invention, A Free Man of Color) stars as Joey, and Weiner (Thinner Than Water) is Denny. The Broadway production famously starred Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman.
Дата: Четверг, 26 Май 2011, 08:52 | Сообщение # 628
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Пьеса будет поставлена в Сан-Франциско в юидейны,Й 45 сезон театра Marin Theatre
Expect 'Rain' in MTC's 45th season
Marin Theatre Company has announced the sixth play of the company's expanded 45th anniversary season: the West Coast premiere in February of "A Steady Rain" by Keith Huff, a crime drama told through the confessions of two Chicago beat cops. "A Steady Rain" premiered at Chicago Dramatists in 2007 and moved to Chicago's Royal George Theatre in 2008, earning Huff the 2008 Jeff Award for Best New Work.
The play then went to Broadway's Schoenfeld Theatre in September 2009, starring Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig, and broke the Broadway record for highest weekly gross of a nonmusical production.
Дата: Суббота, 28 Май 2011, 04:20 | Сообщение # 629
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After 'A Steady Rain,' instant success
Keith Huff rides career express from Chicago to Broadway to Hollywood and back again
Keith Huff can't remember the title of the first play he wrote. After so many years in the trenches, perhaps that sort of detail vanishes into the fog of time and professional frustration. It was only recently, after knocking around Chicago's storefront theater community for more than two decades, that Huff found himself on the receiving end of a dazzling and rather unforeseen level of success. All of it can be traced to 2007's "A Steady Rain." Huff's small but richly gritty two-hander about a pair of morally compromised cops was an instant sensation when it had its world premiere in Chicago. Two years later, the play made the incredible and highly lucrative leap to Broadway, starring box office draws Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman.
Minimalist by design but dense with virile storytelling and brackish comedy, the play is a subversion of the buddy cop genre, Huff has said. The massive success of that Broadway run would forever change the trajectory of this once-unknown writer. Huff's latest play is "The Detective's Wife," and it debuts Wednesday at Writers' Theatre in Glencoe. The second installment in a trilogy about Chicago law enforcement, it is a one-character murder mystery (bare-bones in style, like "A Steady Rain") starring Barbara Robertson as a police detective's widow who attempts to unravel the circumstances of her husband's death.
It is Huff's first major show in town since "A Steady Rain" premiered three years ago on the Near Northwest Side at Chicago Dramatists in a production that would set in motion a series of career-changing events.
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"It was instant," he said last week at Uncommon Ground in Lakeview. The reality, he explained, is that once two of the world's biggest movie stars signed on to do that play — James Bond and Wolverine, no less — his professional prospects shot through the roof. Hollywood suddenly wanted a piece of what Huff had to offer. He chucked his day job as managing editor of Orthopaedic Knowledge Online and joined the writing staff on last season's "Mad Men."
In the works
When you ask Huff what he's working on, the list is staggering. He is in the midst of creating television projects for AMC (for whom he is developing a series with Steven Spielberg) and HBO. Both are Chicago-set stories about power and corruption. Just last week he finalized a deal to join the writing staff of the forthcoming Kevin Spacey TV series "House of Cards," which Netflix is producing in its first foray into original content. Huff begins work on that this summer.
There is also the possibility of a film adaptation of "A Steady Rain." Huff reportedly was paid mid-six figures to write the script (now in its third draft) for producer Barbara Broccoli, who was instrumental in mounting the Broadway run. In a recent email, she talked about her response the first time she read the play, calling it a "page turner written in a very cinematic visual style, a riveting character piece dealing with so many contemporary issues."
Broccoli is perhaps better known as the producer of the last nine James Bond films, which explains how Craig, the current incarnation of 007, became involved with the play.
But it is unlikely anyone in the restaurant where Huff spoke last week could have guessed his career windfall. Unassuming in a University of Illinois baseball cap and prominent stubble, he talked quietly and carefully. He retained the outward appearance of a struggling off-Loop playwright in Chicago, where one can find plenty of talent, drive and considerable skill but little glamour.
The storefront scene where Huff has spent most of his playwriting life can be soul-crushing. The pay is rotten and frequently nonexistent. Success often is judged by how often a show can sell out a venue that seats fewer than a hundred people. The long hours tend to preclude a social life, and day jobs are the norm.
Less than four years ago, all those mundane qualities applied to Huff's career. A number of big theaters in town passed on "A Steady Rain" before Russ Tutterow at Chicago Dramatists took a chance on it with local performers Randy Steinmeyer and Peter DeFaria. The concept was straight-forward: Two cops, two chairs, two cups of coffee. And lots of visceral storytelling. The reviews were rapturous.
The Tribune's Chris Jones called it a stellar play featuring actors who "look, feel and sound exactly like what they claim to be. Cops rather than actors. Flawed humans rather than archetypes."
"The reviews in Chicago, you couldn't make up," said producer Ray Gaspard by phone earlier this week. "If I could get reviews like that on a third of the shows I've produced, I'd be in heaven."
Gaspard and his colleague Frank Gero bought the rights and remounted the show in a commercial production at the Royal George Theatre, with an eye to transferring it off-Broadway.
According to Huff, "It was really a tryout for the commercial viability of the Chicago cast, but it wasn't an overwhelming financial success. It was because of that that they started investigating other ways to do it" with bigger names.
On the way to New York
Eventually, Broccoli and her producing partner Frederick Zollo got ahold of the script and passed it on to Craig.
"Fred had it in his pocket and handed it to Daniel Craig over lunch, and the next day he was in," said Huff.
It was a formula that worked on every financial level imaginable. The combined star power of Craig and Jackman would go on to generate more than $15 million in ticket sales over the course of a three-month run, making it one of the highest-grossing and most profitable shows of the 2009 Broadway season.
The original Chicago actors, though, found themselves on the outside looking in. They were not invited as guests of Huff or the producers on opening night, but were instead informed they could buy house seats at $130 apiece.
Дата: Четверг, 02 Июн 2011, 17:30 | Сообщение # 630
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In the works
When you ask Huff what he's working on, the list is staggering. He is in the midst of creating television projects for AMC (for whom he is developing a series with Steven Spielberg) and HBO. Both are Chicago-set stories about power and corruption. Just last week he finalized a deal to join the writing staff of the forthcoming Kevin Spacey TV series "House of Cards," which Netflix is producing in its first foray into original content. Huff begins work on that this summer.
There is also the possibility of a film adaptation of "A Steady Rain." Huff reportedly was paid mid-six figures to write the script (now in its third draft) for producer Barbara Broccoli, who was instrumental in mounting the Broadway run. In a recent email, she talked about her response the first time she read the play, calling it a "page turner written in a very cinematic visual style, a riveting character piece dealing with so many contemporary issues."
Broccoli is perhaps better known as the producer of the last nine James Bond films, which explains how Craig, the current incarnation of 007, became involved with the play.
But it is unlikely anyone in the restaurant where Huff spoke last week could have guessed his career windfall. Unassuming in a University of Illinois baseball cap and prominent stubble, he talked quietly and carefully. He retained the outward appearance of a struggling off-Loop playwright in Chicago, where one can find plenty of talent, drive and considerable skill but little glamour. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-05....instant
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Keith Huff's two-man drama A Steady Rain, running Jan. 18-Feb. 5, 2012, will be directed by Rep artistic director Steven Woolf. The drama about the strained relationship between two Chicago cops and friends received a high-profile Broadway run starring Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig.
DC: I’d love to, yeah. Not immediate, but maybe I'll do something else in New York, on Broadway. I did a play on Broadway two years ago, and I had a great time doing that. Me and Wolverine.
Дата: Четверг, 29 Сен 2011, 00:30 | Сообщение # 637
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после наших -это просто порнография
вчера когда смотрела Хью на шоу Rove, там пришел какой-то американский комик, не помню как зовут его, и у него были усы.. в зале сидел тоже чувак с усами, и когда Ров начал передачу он увидел их , заржал и тому который в зале говорит: больше усов чем у вас я не видел...у меня вопрос: вы там в них что-то прячете, да? )))) сразу вспомнила про Кренга )) а эти два перца похожи на пиратов из детского кино про Алису и Миелафон
Дата: Вторник, 01 Ноя 2011, 21:44 | Сообщение # 638
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ахаха Хью пошутил, что пригласил Дэна быть его дублером на нынешнем бродвейском шоу
He also joked about having Daniel Craig, his A Steady Rain co-star, join his show. “Hey, I invited him to come and be my understudy. I told him he could do all the matinees, but he wouldn’t go for it.”
Хью пошутил, что пригласил Дэна быть его дублером на нынешнем бродвейском шоу
и будет кренг петь "шляа-а-а-хен зэ, махмахе-е-е-е-н зэ!"
скажу честно, если бы я пришла, заплатив как за Хью, а у видела бы на сцене не Хью (кто бы ни был. хоть английская королева с американским президентом под аккомпанемент воскресшего Джона Леннона ) я бы потребовала деньги обратно.
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Дата: Четверг, 26 Янв 2012, 20:36 | Сообщение # 645
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я читала, что вроде они (с женой ) на данный момент читают разные сценарии постановок, то есть желание вроде есть, посмотрим, как со временем, точно не 2012
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Success pours for Huff after 'A Steady Rain'
When Keith Huff's big break came, it turned out to be bigger than usual.
The Chicago playwright had been toiling at his craft for nearly 25 years, all the while supporting his family with a successful day job as a medical editor.
Huff had plays produced, including one in the Bay Area, "Night Light" at the Eureka Theatre in the early '90s, but he never caught fire.
Then Huff wrote "A Steady Rain," a two-man play about Chicago cops - sort of a good cop-bad cop thing, but you're not quite sure which cop is which. The play opened in 2007 at Chicago Dramatists, got picked up by another Chicago theater for an extended run and jumped immediately to New York.
Huff made his Broadway debut in 2009 with a sold-out run of "Rain" starring Hugh Jackman (a Broadway veteran, but in musicals) and Daniel Craig (the veteran West Ender-turned-movie star as James Bond in his Broadway debut).
Huff imagined ego clashes between mega-movie stars, not to mention nonstop interruptions from mobile phones and agents. That's not at all what he got.
"I thought if we were lucky, we'd get 30 percent of their attention," Huff says on the phone from Los Angeles, where he's working on several TV projects. "But in that rehearsal room, we had nothing else to think about but this play. Daniel and Hugh gave it their full attention. One thing did surprise me. When the guys arrived in the morning, they hugged everybody. Then there were more hugs when we left for the day. I expected a little diva stuff, but nothing. They're really nice guys. Nobody even threw a chair." Daniel Craig, funny?
Another surprise for Huff was how funny Craig was. "It's a shame he doesn't do more comedy," Huff says. "He does great impersonations, including a really good Maggie Smith. He even does me. He wouldn't do it when I was in the room, but apparently it was very funny. Hugh told Daniel he should host 'Saturday Night Live,' but Daniel said no, he was a serious actor. Then he laughed."
"A Steady Rain" is now being produced across the country and around the world, including the West Coast premiere now at Marin Theatre Company.
The play opened up a number of professional doors for Huff, who still resides in Chicago with his wife, Georgette, and 10-year-old daughter, Robin. He tried moving his family to Los Angeles when he was working as a co-producer and writer on "Mad Men," but as Huff says, "That didn't work out well for us."
Now he's doing the long-distance thing while he works on projects such as "House of Cards," a drama being produced by Netflix starring Kevin Spacey, and "Why We Fight," which Huff is developing with Steven Spielberg for AMC.
"TV is so ..." Huff doesn't finish his thought. He's on his mobile phone on the roof of a building in Santa Monica, where the phone reception is almost good. "Look, TV is all options and guarantees, and you don't know how long a show is going to go, if it will get picked up or whether audiences will hate it or love it." Idealism prevails
Still, Huff says he's far from jaded by show business.
"I'm still pretty idealistic," he says. "A group of talented people can get together, with the right attitude and the right leadership, and they can create something better than any one person could create on their own. I have yet to see that. Even as I'm working, I'm watching and asking, 'What is wrong with people?' There's a lot of money at stake, and it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to run a show. Those things do strange things to people."
There's talk of a London run of "A Steady Rain" with Craig and Jackman and maybe even a film version after that (Huff is on the third draft of the screenplay). There are also more plays to come, including "The Bird and Mr. Banks," a hit in L.A. that has been optioned for Broadway.
The success thing, Huff says, never gets old. "I think because I'm not in my 20s and because success came late for me, I appreciate everything that's happening in a truly grateful way. I never feel entitled to this, and there's an element of absurdity because it happened so fast. If good fortune happens so quickly, can bad fortune happen as quickly next week? I'm wrestling with that."
A Steady Rain: By Keith Huff. Directed by Meredith McDonough. Through Feb. 26. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. $20-$55. (415) 388-5208. www.marintheatre.org.
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и еще одна постановка пьесы, Хафф должен быть по гроб жизни нашим благодарен
The Arena Players will present A Steady Rain by Keith Huff at the Vanderbilt Estate Carriage House Theater (Little Neck Road in Centerport, NY), March 2 - 25.