Private Lives
Broadway Comedy Revival
Previews April 19 2002
Opened
April 28 2002
Limited run to September 1 2002
Run 9 previews | 127 performances
Running Time To come
Tickets $20 to $75
Prices do not include any taxes,
service charges or other charges
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Creative Noel
Coward author | Howard Davies director
Cast Alan Rickman | Lindsay Duncan | Emma
Fielding | Adam Godley | Alex Belcourt
Synopsis Private Lives
is one of the most endearing and enduring of Noel Coward's comedies.
Coward's premise is simple: It's Deauville, France in the 1930s. Two
couples are on their honeymoons and coincidentally, as they find out
when they run into each other on the terrace, two of the newlyweds
had been divorced from each other. What are they to do? What else?
Run off together while the newly deserted spouses give merry chase
Notes The original production
of Noel Coward's Private Lives hit the Boards at the Times
Square Theater in 1931. Noel Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Laurence
Olivier, Jill Esmond and Therese Quadri starred. The 1948 revival at
the Plymouth
Theater featured Tallulah Bankhead, Donald Cook and, again,
Therese Quadri reprising her role as Lousie. Tammy Grimes took a
turn as Amanda in 1969, as did Maggie Smith in 1975. The most talked
about revival was at the Lunt-Fontanne
Theater when Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton headed the
cast. Then, in 1992, it was back to the Broadhurst
Theater with Joan Collins along for the ride for 37 performances
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