EXCLUSIVE: Succession star Sarah Snook performs her ultimate performances Saturday night time at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket within the enthralling, award-winning play The Image of Dorian Grey, and the actress now has signed on take it to Broadway for a season within the spring of 2025.
Nothing’s confirmed for NYC, however as quickly as a theatre deal is settled subsequent month, the entire massive Broadway deal can be introduced.
Snook was topped with an Olivier Award for Greatest Actress in a Play throughout a lavish ceremony final month on the Royal Albert Corridor.
Earlier this yr, in fast succession, the thespian took dwelling Greatest Actress honors on the Golden Globes, the Critics Selection Awards, the Emmys and SAG Awards and garlands on dwelling turf in her native Australia for her blistering efficiency as Shiv Roy in Succession.
Kip Williams, creative director of the Sydney Theatre Firm, who tailored and directed the Oscar Wilde play, has scouted theatres in New York with producers Michael Cassel of the Michael Cassel Group and Adam Kenwright of Kindred Companions. To date they’ve been supplied three homes and, I perceive, there’s the potential of a fourth turning into accessible to them.
Entry Leisure’s chief govt Danny Cohen, additionally a producer of the present in London, with Len Blavatnik, will be a part of Cassel and Kenwright in producing on Broadway, as will NYC theatre proprietor Daryl Roth.
The play, which originated on the Sydney Theatre Firm’s Roslyn Packer Theatre in November 2020 — during which Jean Norvill created the 26 completely different characters — has performed a 13½-week season on the Haymarke, in entrance of a record-breaking 83,000 individuals on the 821-capacity home.
Producers held again 4 seats per present for particular friends.
After each Snook and the present garnered glowing notices from London critics, display screen stars, rock stars, Premier League stars and different celebrities vied day by day for these 4 golden tickets. I heard that many a giant title needed to be turned down.
Nevertheless, Nicole Kidman — who informed me she “cherished it!” — Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Emily Blunt and Succession members of the family Brian Cox and Kieran Culkin all made the reduce for these scorchingly scorching tickets.
By some means, nobody’s fairly fathomed out how, famous person mannequin Kate Moss noticed the present twice. She “adored” Marg Horwell’s Olivier Award-winning costumes and “cherished” Snook’s command of the stage.
Importantly, The Image of Dorian Grey made some cash.
Loitering near the field workplace on a current sunny afternoon, I found that the manufacturing, capitalized at $2.5 million, recouped some weeks in the past and ends its run of 101 performances healthily in revenue. Snook performed all 101 of them.
Large theatres throughout America, together with one in Los Angeles, need Snook and the play.
However up to now, solely Broadway can have her title in lights on a marquee, for the actor is far in demand for film and TV work.
First, although, she, her husband and child daughter will depart London subsequent week for a well-deserved break. Then she’ll contemplate an avalanche of affords.
Final month my colleague Andreas Wiseman reported solely that Cate Blanchett’s Soiled Movies acquired the movie rights to The Image of Dorian Grey manufacturing.
These rights really had been secured two years in the past, but it surely was stored underneath wraps till Deadline broke the information.
That kinda means the rights had been obtained for Blanchett to play the 26 roles in a function movie.
However, who is aware of? Maybe one thought for the movie model could be to get 26 completely different actors to play the 26 roles — and Snook could be one in all them.
I throw that on the market.
