#glengarry glen ross

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Bob Odenkirk and Michael McKean bond over 'Glengarry Glen Ross.'

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Jimmy Conway x Ricky Roma (idea from dear oomfie @larsulrichburneracc )

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Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook share theater stories and memories from Succession, on the latest Variety "Actors on Actors: Broadway" conversation.

📷 Emilio Madrid

source @variety, @kieranculkindaily, @evanrosskatz IG

🎥@variety IG

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kieran culkin in after ashley (2005)

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AL PACINO as Ricky Roma

GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS dir James Foley, 1992

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Darren Criss :)! | David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” opening night | March 31, 2025 | 🎥 via GGR

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Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Hilarie Burton Morgan arrive at "Glengarry Glen Ross" opening night

Story by glengarryplay

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You see that furry art?

That furry art cost more than your car.

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There was no time and I was being pushed but here is my .5 seconds with Kieran 😭💚 (we were color-coordinated)

[lies]

Being a recap of my just-concluded trip to NYC. After a cut because I’m sure it will end up being stupid long.

The partner in crime and I went for a bunch of reasons. But the original reason was because a dear friend was putting together a weekend centered on a couple of events: Audra McDonald’s appearance in the musical Gypsy, and the performance of Jake Heggie’s opera Moby Dick. And we hadn’t seen the dear friend and his husband (henceforth David and Alan) in a year and a half, and they’re pretty much our favorite people in the world.

Our Gypsy tickets were for Friday, and the opera was on Saturday. We flew from LA on Thursday and flew home yesterday (Tuesday), so that gave us four days to be tourists. We filled in the schedule by seeing a performance of Oh, Mary (with Betty Gilpin as Mary Todd Lincoln) on Sunday and the first preview of Glengarry Glen Ross (with Bob Odenkirk, Michael McKean, Bill Burr, and Kieran Culkin) on Monday. During the days we went to museums (the Metropolitan Museum on Friday and the Museum of Modern Art on Saturday). There was a big dinner for the eight of us going to Gypsy before the show on Friday at a cool French restaurant called Cafe Un Deux Trois, and for the same group before the opera at one of a chain of Peruvian restaurants called Pio Pio on Saturday. On Sunday our same group (more or less) had brunch with Jake Heggie (Moby Dick’s composer) at a friend’s penthouse apartment, and we also went by ourselves a couple of times to our favorite restaurant in New York, Tratoria Dell Arte.

On the trip home I played a mental game with myself: if I had to eliminate one of the four performances we saw, such that I wouldn’t have seen it, which would it have been? And then so on until just one remained, the one that I would have chosen if I could only have experienced one of them. Not as a ranking of artistic merit or anything like that. Just subjectively, in what order would I give them up?

The first I would have eliminated was Glengarry Glen Ross. It was in a big theater (The Palace) and our seats were way up in the balcony, so that was probably a factor in it not hitting as hard. And this was the first preview performance, and the Broadway debut for a few of the big names, so there may have been some roughness around the edges due to that. Kieran Culkin had had his billing upgraded based on his Oscar win a few weeks ago, and there was some Beatlemania-style screaming for him when he first appeared and during his bows at the end. He was legitimately great, as was Bob Odenkirk; in each case they infused their performances with elements of characters I’d loved on TV (in Succession and in Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul, respectively). I didn’t know the story, not having seen the movie or the play before. David Mamet’s (the playwright’s) politics have become problematic in recent years, which isn’t fair to hold against the play, but maybe that was a factor in my having a harder time engaging with it. And it’s an older story, and while the themes are certainly relevant today there’s also that thing about art: it moves on. On balance it was a wonderful experience and I’m glad I saw it, but if I’m having to pick that’s the first one to go.

Next on the chopping block would be Gypsy. Which is kind of shocking for me to realize. It was a great show, and seeing it from up close in the center of the orchestra was intense, especially during the performance of “Mama’s Turn” at the end, when Audra let out all the stops. The way she reacted in-character to the huge ovation she got, hearing it in her head and drinking it in without engaging directly with the audience, in effect making us part of the performance, was something I’ll never forget.

Next up would be Moby Dick. I’ve only seen a handful of operas, but this one was beautiful. I’d never been to the Met before, so just walking past the fountain like Loretta in Moonstruck and gawking at the chandeliers made me kind of giddy. The staging was jaw-dropping and gorgeous, and it was incredibly cool how they blended surreal, abstract elements to evoke the sea, the ship, and the events of the story. The music was wonderful, the exploration of the themes and relationships in the libretto, and way it was realized in Jake’s music. Melville’s novel was rich, and weird, and complicated, and in hindsight opera feels like the perfect medium to convey that. It was a long opera, and there’s a side of me that wants it to have been shorter. But I don’t think that would have worked as well, and as with my experience reading Moby Dick years ago, it would have robbed the ending of its impact.

Last up, the performance you have to claw from my cold, dead hands, was Oh, Mary. It was at the Lyceum Theater, which is the same place I saw my surprise-favorite on our last trip to New York, Grey House. I just want to live in that crazy, madcap world. It was so incredibly fun. I can’t describe it. It just has to be experienced.

On a side note, the best food of the trip wasn’t at a restaurant. It was at the brunch with Jake at Carl and Tony’s apartment on Sunday. That event was great; hearing David and Jake and Carl (who all went to school together in the UCLA music department in the 1980s, which is where the partner in crime knows them from) reminiscing about their time together at school and their early music-industry jobs was fun. And it was interesting, if sad, to talk about current events, and have folks mentioning their dual citizenship and their plans to leave the country if they have to. But the conversation was mostly upbeat. Jake talked about the next opera he’s hoping to write, which I don’t think I’m at liberty to share, and isn’t necessarily going to happen (the rights are complicated). But if it does happen I can just say that a certain Shipwrecked megafan is going to be beside herself, and probably will be first in line at the premiere.

But the food! The brunch was prepared by Tony, one of the two hosts. I don’t know details about his professional background; I think he was a programmer/web developer at one point, but these days he apparently is a private chef for someone famous. But oh my god. It basically was like seeing Oh, Mary: I can’t describe it. It just had to be experienced.

Oh, almost forgot: the subway. I’d never taken the New York subway before, but on this trip I got it down, and am looking forward to putting my hard-won knowledge (take the uptown train, dummy) to good use on my next visit.

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saw glengarry glen ross aka saw kieran culkin tonight live and in the flesh AMA

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kieran culkin in after ashley (2005)