Theater: Schoenfeld Theatre / 236 West 45th Street, New York, NY, 10036
Synopsis:
The stakes are high at a fly by night Chicago real estate office: 1st prize- a new Cadillac, 2nd prize- a set of steak knives, 3rd prize- you're fired! David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross slices to the core of the American dream and exposes the depths people will go to stay on top of the game. Mamet himself worked in a real estate office in Chicago in 1969 setting up appointments for salesmen, and the play is influenced by the cutthroat politics he encountered. Al Pacino stars in this production from director Daniel Sullivan.
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December 9, 2012: The fight has gone out of the once-robust boys from “Glengarry Glen Ross,” David Mamet’s 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of sharks in a small pond. Sure, they still curse and rant and beat up on the furniture in the production that formally opened at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater on Saturday night, after an indecently extended preview period.
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December 9, 2012: Al Pacino is the headliner and principal draw, even if he's the most questionable element in this sluggish revival of David Mamet's best-known play.
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December 9, 2012: Early in "Glengarry Glen Ross," as David Mamet brilliantly employs the scene-blackout-scene rhythm he learned sweeping floors at Chicago's Second City cabaret, Shelley can't-close-a-deal Levene is told that he cannot have the "premium leads" (translation: the only sales leads that might actually result in a sale) because they are not given out to a person who "falls below that mark."
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December 9, 2012: David Mamet’s return to Broadway has been upstaged — by David Mamet. A crackling revival of his excellent “Glengarry Glen Ross” opened Saturday at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, a few steps from his latest play, “The Anarchist.”
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December 9, 2012: Remember the good old days when David Mamet wrote muscular, expletive-filled dramas instead of lifeless, didactic polemics with stick figure characters? Last week, "The Anarchist," Mamet's two-hander starring Patti LuPone as a prisoner and Debra Winger as her warden, opened to pans.
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