David’s latest film, The Perfect Host, now has a brand spankin’ new official website! Among the many cool things to be found on it, there’s some new stills from the film:
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You may recall David hosting a concert celebrating Stephen Sondheim’s 80th birthday. According to the Playbill blog, the concert will not only air on PBS on 24 November, but will be released on DVD the same month. So we’ll all have a chance to watch David’s performance of ‘Beautiful Girls’!
Here’s a great new interview from Official London Theatre:
It can’t be easy being cast alongside Mark Rylance at the moment. The former Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe won just about every theatre accolade going in the past year for his remarkable performance in Jez Butterworth’s hugely acclaimed play Jerusalem. In Matthew Warchus’s revival of the Laurence Olivier Award-winning comedy La Bête, the talented performer is given the space and time to deliver a 30-minute monologue packed with tricks and party pieces while the rest of the cast, which includes 11-time Emmy nominee and Tony Award-winner David Hyde Pierce, watch on as he steals the show. Surely for a performer of Pierce’s stature, that must grate just a little? Apparently not.
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There’s an extensive interview with David in today’s Independent. Wouldn’t Frasier: the Musical be amazing?!
Stillness is a great quality in an actor, and a rare one. David Hyde Pierce is pretty much still most of the time. We are sitting in his underground dressing room at the Comedy Theatre, where he has just opened, to very favourable reviews, alongside Mark Rylance and Joanna Lumley in La Bête, a rhyming play about 17th-century French actors.
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Great review of David’s new show in The Wall Street Journal.
Playwright David Hirson and director Matthew Warchus are brave to revive La Bête, only a modest success when first seen here in 1992. You can understand why an audience might find it difficult. First, it’s written in rhyming couplets. Second, it’s set in the 17th century, in a French chateau. Third, it’s about the friction between a classically formal playwright (Elomire, an unsubtle anagram for Moliere) and Valere, an exponent of dumbed-down comedy, and their rivalry for the patronage of a very rich French Princess – not much to get excited about there, apparently.
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Just a heads-up:
David will be a guest on The 5 O’Clock Show with Fern Britton on Channel 4 this Thursday.
(If you have to ask what time it’s on, we fear for you!)
Mark Rylance and David appeared on BBC Breakfast yesterday morning. Go watch the interview HERE!
David will appear as part of the Broadway Talks conversation series being held at the 92nd St Y in New York this fall.
The series features a different Broadway performer in conversation with Jordan Roth each night. David is pencilled in for Sunday 24 October, with tickets going at $29.
More details at BroadwayWorld and at the 92Y website.
Stylish, eh? It reminds me a little of the poster for Brick. In further Perfect Host news, the movie sold in seven territories after its screenings at Cannes in May, according to The Hollywood Reporter:
Nick Tomnay’s The Perfect Host starring David Hyde Pierce, Clayne Crawford and Helen Reddy, sold in seven territories including: French Connection Films for France; Festival Films for Spain; All Interactive Media in Australia/New Zealand; Bejing Asian Culture for China; Front Row Entertainment in the Middle East; Videx for all pay TV rights in Latin America; and Jaguar Films for all international airline rights.
Here’s hoping we get a chance to see it soon!
Nice review from Variety. Really would love to see this play, I’d say Mark Rylance is just gobsmacking!
Strategies don’t get riskier than this: Take one heavily award-nommed Broadway bomb from 1991, set up a new London production and add a locked-in five-month Broadway transfer. Happily, thanks to seriously smart creatives helmed by comedy maestro Matthew Warchus, this ebullient revival of David Hirson’s high-art-vs.-commerce comedy La Bete is largely a winner. But it’s a case of how to succeed in business while really trying and often too hard.
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