Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Theater
Scarlett Johansson To Play 17-Year-Old Brooklynite on Broadway
Posted
by Benjamin Sutton
on Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:10 PM
Yesterday
ArtsBeat reported that Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber had been cast as the leads in a Broadway revival of Arhur Miller's
A View from the Bridge, to begin previews on December 28 at the
Cort Theater. The play is about an Italian American longshoreman (Schreiber) who lives in Red Hook with his wife and orphaned 17-year-old niece (Johansson)—no word yet on who will play the wife, though an
abandoned film adaptation a few years back was rumored to have Johansson and Frances McDormand cast as the female leads.
Johansson, who'll be 25 when the show opens, will be making her Broadway debut, while Schreiber earned a Tony for his last stage role in the 2005 revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross. The only film version of Bridge is Sidney Lumet's elusive and inexplicably French-language Vu du pont (1962).
Tags: nyc theater, Red Hook, Arthur Miller, Sidney Lumet, A View from the Bridge, Scarlett Johansson, Liev Schreiber, Broadway
