Breaking Baz: Sarah Snook Could Be Headed To Broadway With West End Hit; BAFTA And Oscar Insiders Finch + Partners To Open L.A. Outpost; Ruaridh Mollica Signs With Range In U.S.
17.02.2024 - 08:05
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Succession’s Sarah Snook, now the toast of the town for her dazzling one-woman performance playing 26 characters in a breathtakingly innovative staging of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, will likely head to Broadway early in 2025 once she’s had a break, and if she wants to do it.
There are tentative, in no way definite, plans for the production to be filmed for the National Theatre’s NT Live.
Look, movies and television are great art forms, and I love ‘em to bits like everybody else, but nothing beats watching an artist at the top of their craft live on a theatre stage. And in Snook’s case in The Picture of Dorian Gray, she’s able to command every inch of the Theatre Royal Haymarket stage.
Snook went into rehearsals last November to shoot the extensive video content that features portraits of her inhabiting Wilde’s creations, adapted and directed by Kip Williams, artistic leader of the Sydney Theatre Company. There’s so much video content it took three weeks to film the sequences in Melbourne, where the actress and her family are based.
Rehearsals paused over the holidays and then Snook went to Los Angles to attend the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards and the Emmys. Shen then traveled directly to London where work on Dorian Gray resumed at the English National Ballet’s center for dance in Stratford, east London.
“The fact that she’s just been able to navigate that all and not lose focus is beyond impressive,” Michael Cassel, founder of the Michael Cassel Group and the show’s lead producer in partnership with London-based Adam Kenwright’s Kindred Partners, tells me over afternoon tea at a hotel next door to the Theatre Royal Haymarket, where the play runs until May 11.
The production with