Glengarry Glen Ross
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Cititour.com Review
As long as big-name actors yearn to inhabit the bodies and souls of the colorfully crass, ethically compromised salesmen of Glengarry Glen Ross, it seems producers will be happy to put up the funds to bring David Mamet's 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner back to Broadway. The last revival, starring Alan Alda and Liev Schreiber, was a mere seven years ago, and although the play doesn't have the breadth to benefit from so many stagings, there's no keeping audiences from shelling out dough to see Al Pacino onstage.
They won't be disappointed. As the defeated Shelly Levene, Pacino gets another chance to enact the downfall of a destructive character, much as he did when he played Shakespearean scoundrel Shylock in The Merchant of Venice two years ago. Again he does so with carefully crafted, if slightly larger-than-life gusto. Once a top salesman at his Chicago firm, Levene of late has been having trouble dumping off Florida property on unsuspecting investors, while smooth-talking ace Richard Roma, played with glowing aplomb by Bobby Cannavale, gobbles up all the commission cash. Pacino, you may remember, played Roma to Jack Lemmon’s Levene in the 1992 film version.
In 2012, Glengarry feels closer to a history play than a contemporary drama. (Eugene Lee's second-act set is a fabulously grimy 1980s office.) These salesmen—whose ranks also include Richard Schiff (The West Wing) and John C. McGinley—may be schmucks, but there's a cunning art to the way they do business, as demonstrated by a scene in which Roma puts his professional moves on the gullible James Lingk (a nerdily charming Jeremy Shamos).
The always assured direction of Daniel Sullivan (who also staged Merchant) means a solid, polished presentation, even if this Glengarry, like the property its salesmen are unloading, doesn't quite live up to its hype.
By Diane Snyder
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http://www.glengarrybroadway.com
Cast
Al Pacino, Bobby Cannavale, David Harbour, Jeremy Shamos, Richard Schiff, John C. McGinley, Murphy Guyer
Open/Close Dates
Opening 10/19/2012
Closing 1/20/2013
Box Office
212-239-6200
Theatre Info
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
236 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10036
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