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Jennifer Morrison in Anna dei Miracoli
La dottoressa Cameron di Dr. House si dedica al teatro con una rappresentazione di Anna dei Miracoli a Brodway.
notizia a cura di Sonja Della Ragione, scritta il 14.12.2009
La notizia che Jennifer Morrison sta per dedicarsi al teatro toglie ogni residua speranza per un possibile ritorno di Allison Cameron in Dr House: Medical Division, almeno per il prossimo futuro.
Dopo un mese dall'addio al set del Princeton-Plainsboro dove Hugh Laurie guida il suo team di specialisti, Jennifer annuncia la sua partecipazione al dramma teatrale Anna dei Miracoli, che debutterà a Brodway prossimamente con la presenza di Matthew Modine e Abigail Breslin.
La storia è nota ai più e si basa sull'autobiografia di Helen Keller (Breslin), una giovane non vedente e audiolesa che verrà salvata dalla prigione dell'isolamento grazie agli sforzi della sua insegnante, Annie Sullivan, che riesce a superare le difficoltà di partenza, dandole gli strumenti per comunicare col resto del mondo. Non è ancora noto quale sarà il ruolo della Morrison, che di recente si è unita a Nick Nolte e Tom Hardy (Band of Brothers, Sweeny Todd) per il film drammatico Warrior che arriverà nelle sale il prossimo anno.
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Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Modine & Elizabeth Franz Join Revival of THE MIRACLE WORKER
Monday, December 14, 2009; Posted: 09:12 AM - by BWW News Desk
According to reports, Jennifer Morrison, star of TV's 'House', Matthew Modine and Elizabeth Franz will join Abigail Breslin and Alison Pill in the Broadway revival of 'The Miracle Worker'.
Directed by Kate Whoriskey (Ruined), THE MIRACLE WORKER will star Academy Award® nominee Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) and Tony Award® nominee Alison Pill (The Lieutenant of Inishmore) as Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, iconic roles made famous by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke in the Tony Award® winning play and landmark feature film adaptation.
THE MIRACLE WORKER will be staged in the round for the first time at Circle in the Square Theatre (235 West 50 Street). Previews will begin on Friday, February 12, 2010 toward an official opening Wednesday, March 3, 2010.
Set in the South in the 1880s, THE MIRACLE WORKER tells the story of real-life Medal of Freedom winner Helen Keller, born blind and deaf, and the extraordinary teacher who taught her to communicate with the world, Annie Sullivan.
Young film star Abigail Breslin will make her Broadway debut in the role of Helen Keller. She made her breakthrough feature film appearance as Mel Gibson's leading lady at the tender age of five in M. Night Shyamalan's 2002 film Signs, and received an Academy Award® nomination for her critically-acclaimed title role performance in the runaway hit comedy Little Miss Sunshine.
Alison Pill returns to the stage following starring on Broadway in Mauritius and in the Off-Broadway hits reasons to be pretty and Blackbird, for which she received Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Award nominations. She was nominated for a Tony Award® for her Broadway debut in The Lieutenant of Inishmore. She recently appeared in the hit feature film Milk opposite Sean Penn and the acclaimed HBO series "In Treatment."
Director Kate Whoriskey most recently staged the acclaimed and much-extended world premiere of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize winning play Ruined at the Goodman Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club and Inked Baby at Playwrights Horizons. Theater credits include regional productions of Heartbreak House, The Rose Tattoo, Antigone and Intimate Apparel, as well as Off-Broadway's Fabulation. Whoriskey was recently named artistic director of Seattle's Intiman Theatre.
Playwright William Gibson first adapted the story of Helen Keller and her teacher into a television teleplay called "The Miracle Worker" in 1957. He made his Broadway debut as a playwright with the love story Two for the Seesaw, starring Henry Fonda and Anne Bancroft, and received his first Tony Award® nomination for the show. The Miracle Worker followed in 1959, with Bancroft as Sullivan and Patty Duke as Keller. The piece won the Tony Award® for Best Play in 1960. Gibson's other works include Golden Boy, Raggedy Ann, A Cry of Players and Golda's Balcony. He passed away in 2008 at the age of 95.
David Richenthal has produced several multi-award winning productions, including Death of a Salesman, Long Days Journey Into Night, The Crucible and I Am My Own Wife. Tomorrow evening his production of the revival of Finian's Rainbow opens at the ST. James Theatre on Broadway.
THE MIRACLE WORKER originally opened at The Playhouse Theatre on October 19, 1959 and was awarded the 1960 Tony Award® for Best Play in addition to garnering leading lady Anne Bancroft a Tony Award® for Best Actress in a Play for the role of Annie Sullivan and a Theatre World Award for newcomer Patty Duke for her portrayal of Helen Keller. Both actresses received Academy Awards® for their work in the feature film adaptation.
Abigail Breslin (Helen Keller)made her breakthrough film appearance as Mel Gibson's leading lady at the tender age of five in M. Night Shyamalan's 2002 film Signs. She is perhaps best known for her critically-acclaimed title role performance in the runaway hit comedy Little Miss Sunshine. Abigail received Academy Award, SAG and BAFTA best supporting actress nominations and was honored with a best actress award from the Tokyo International Film Festival as well as being named ShoWest's "Female Star of Tomorrow" in 2008. Other film credits include Raising Helen, No Reservations, Definitely Maybe, Nim's Island and Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. This summer, she starred opposite Cameron Diaz in the Warner Brother's film My Sister's Keeper and can currently be seen starring in Columbia's hit horror comedy Zombieland opposite Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, and Emma Stone. Abigail can next be seen opposite Johnny Depp in Rango, Gore Verbinski's animated adventure film for Paramount Pictures.
Alison Pill (Annie Sullivan) most recently starred on Broadway in Mauritius and in the Off-Broadway hits reasons to be pretty and Blackbird, for which she received Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League nominations. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her Broadway debut in The Lieutenant of Inishmore and for a Lucille Lortel Award for On the Mountain. She won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble in the U.S. premiere of The Distance from Here and starred in an Off-Broadway run of None of the Above. Film work includes Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Milk, Dan in Real Life, Dear Wendy, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and Pieces of April. Television includes "In Treatment" (HBO), "The Book of Daniel" (NBC), "Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows," and the upcoming miniseries "The Pillars of the Earth."
Kate Whoriskey (Director) was recently represented Off-Broadway with Manhattan Theatre Club and Goodman Theatre's acclaimed co-production of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize winning play Ruined for which she earned Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel and Jeff Award (excellence in Chicago Theatre) nominations. New York credits include The Piano Teacher by Julia Cho at the Vineyard Theatre, Last Tree in Antartica by Julia Cho at Ensemble Studio Theatre, the world premiere of Fabulation by Lynn Nottage at Playwrights Horizons and Massacre by Jose Rivera at the Labyrinth Theatre Company of which she is a member. She also directed The Tempest at Shakespeare Theatre, the world premiere of Vigils, The Rose Tattoo and Heartbreak House at the Goodman Theatre, the world premiere of Intimate Apparel, The Piano Teacher, Life is a Dream, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Antigone, and Clean House at South Coast Repertory, Master Builder at The American Repertory Theatre, and Blue/Orange, Lady from the Sea and The Chairs at the Intiman Theatre. She has worked with writers Nilo Cruz, Sarah Ruhl, Michael Oondaatje, ReGina Taylor and Said Sayrefezadieh. Other theatres where she has directed include Theatre for a New Audience, Baltimore Center Stage, Perseverance Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Sundance Theatre Lab, The Fisher Center, The Eugene O'Neill Center and GeVa Theatre. A graduate of NYU and the ART Institute at Harvard, she is currently a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and an associate artist at South Coast Rep. She was recently named the Artistic Director of the Intiman Theatre.
William Gibson (Playwright) was most recently represented on Broadway in 2003 with the production of Golda's Balcony. Born in 1914 in New York City, he has written poetry, fiction and scripts for stage, television and films. His plays include The Miracle Worker (Tony Award®, Best Play 1960), which was originally produced for television's Playhouse 90; Two for the Seesaw; A Cry of Players; Golda; The Butterfingers Angel; Monday After the Miracle; Goodly Creatures; and Handy Dandy. He is the author of a novel, The Cobweb, as well as the musical version of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy. His several books include The Seesaw Log, A Mass for the Dead - a study of his family - and a volume of poetry entitled Winter Crook. Mr. Gibson's book, A Season in Heaven, takes a look at metaphysics and the creative process. His most recent book is Shakespeare's Game, a critical study. He was married to the psychoanalyst Margaret Brenman-Gibson, whose biography, Clifford Odets, American Playwright, was release in 1982.
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Matthew Modine, Jennifer Morrison and Elizabeth Franz Join The Miracle Worker
News By Broadway.com Staff
December 14, 2009 - 10:01AMCITAZIONEMorrison will also make her Broadway debut in The Miracle Worker as Kate Keller. Best known for her role as Dr. Allison Cameron on the popular TV series House M.D., she recently played Captain Kirk’s mother in the feature film Star Trek. Other films include Intersection, Stir of Echoes, Gring, Surviving Christmas and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.SPOILER (click to view)Matthew Modine, Jennifer Morrison and Elizabeth Franz have joined the cast of the forthcoming Broadway revival of William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker, alongside previously announced stars Abigail Breslin as Helen Keller and Alison Pill as Annie Sullivan. The play will staged in the round at Circle in the Square Theatre, with previews beginning February 12, 2010, and opening night set for March 3, directed by Kate Whoriskey. Additional casting will be announced shortly.
Set in Alabama in the 1880s, The Miracle Worker tells the story of Keller, the blind and deaf girl who drew up to win the Medal of Freedom. After losing her sight and hearing at 19 months, Keller developed a deep bond with the Sullivan, the extraordinary teacher who taught her to communicate with the world.
Winner of the 1960 Tony Award for Best Play, The Miracle Worker earned Anne Bancroft a Best Actress Tony for playing Sullivan and a Theatre World Award for newcomer Patty Duke for playing Keller. Both actresses received Academy Awards for their work in the feature film adaptation.
Modine, who will make his Broadway debut in The Miracle Worker as Captain Keller, recently starred in the Hartford Stage production of To Kill a Mockingbird. His 50 films include Birdy, Married to the Mob, Vision Quest, Full Metal Jacket, Orphans, Pacific Heights and Any Given Sunday. He received an Emmy nomination for HBO’s And the Band Played On and starred at L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse in the satirical Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas.
Morrison will also make her Broadway debut in The Miracle Worker as Kate Keller. Best known for her role as Dr. Allison Cameron on the popular TV series House M.D., she recently played Captain Kirk’s mother in the feature film Star Trek. Other films include Intersection, Stir of Echoes, Gring, Surviving Christmas and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
Franz (Aunt Ev) received a Tony Award for playing Linda Loman opposite Brian Dennehy in Death of a Salesman and was nominated for Tonys for Brighton Beach Memoirs and Morning’s at Seven. Her Broadway credits include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Cherry Orchard, The Octette Bridge Club, The Cemetery Club, Getting Married and Uncle Vanya. Her many off-Broadway credits include an acclaimed performance in the title role of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and a Lucille Lortel Award-winning performance in The Piano Teacher.
The Miracle Worker is being produced by David Richenthal, Eric Falkenstein and Randall Wreghitt.
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The Miracle Worker is a cycle of 20th century dramatic works derived from Helen Keller's autobiography The Story of My Life. Each of the various dramas describe the relationship between Keller — a deafblind and initially almost feral child — and Annie Sullivan, the teacher who introduced her to education, activism, and international celebrity
Its first realization was a 1957 Playhouse 90 broadcast written by William Gibson and starring Teresa Wright as Sullivan and Patricia McCormack as Keller. Gibson adapted his teleplay for a 1959 Broadway production with Anne Bancroft as Sullivan and Patty Duke as Keller. The two reprised their roles for the 1962 feature film.
It was remade for television in 1979, with Patty Duke as Sullivan, Melissa Gilbert as Keller, and Diana Muldaur and Charles Siebert in supporting roles. In 2000, another television production was made, directed by Nadia Tass and starring Alison Elliott as Sullivan and Hallie Kate Eisenberg as Keller, with David Strathairn and Lucas Black in supporting roles. A 1984 made-for-television sequel, Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues, starred Blythe Danner as Sullivan, Mare Winningham as Keller, and Jack Warden as Mark Twain.
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Trio set for 'Miracle'
Morrison, Modine, Franz cast in revival
By GORDON COX
Jennifer Morrison ("House"), Matthew Modine and Elizabeth Franz have joined the cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of "The Miracle Worker."
Thesps will join previously announced topliners Abigail Breslin and Alison Pill, who star as Helen Keller and teacher Annie Sullivan, respectively, in the familiar 1959 drama.
Morrison, who recently exited Fox skein "House," makes her Rialto debut as Helen's mother, appearing opposite Modine (also in his first Rialto gig) as her father. Franz, who picked up a Tony for her perf in the 1999 revival of "Death of a Salesman," portrays Keller's Aunt Ev.
Helmed by Kate Whoriskey ("Ruined"), "Miracle Worker" begins previews Feb. 12 ahead of a March 3 opening at Circle in the Square. David Richenthal, Eric Falkenstein and Randall Wreghitt produce.
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The Miracle Worker: Tickets now on sale
Tickets are now on sale to the general public for the first Broadway revival of William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker, opening at the Circle in the Square Theatre on 3 Mar 2010, following previews from 12 Feb 2010.SPOILER (click to view)The Miracle Worker will star Abigail Breslin and Alison Pill as 'Helen Keller' and 'Annie Sullivan,' iconic roles made famous by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke in the Tony Award winning play and feature film adaptation.
The drama, directed by Kate Whoriskey, will also feature Matthew Modine, Jennifer Morrison and Elizabeth Franz. Further casting will be announced in the near future.
The Miracle Worker is set in Alabama in the 1880's and tells the real life story of Helen Keller, a girl who at a very young age is left blind, deaf and dumb after surviving an attack of scarlett fever. Unable to communicate with the world the girl suffers fits of frustration which manifests itself in violent tantrums.
Her desperate parents seek help from the Perkins Institute' who send Annie Sullivan, a visually impaired young woman, to tutor Helen. Through kindness, persistence and forcefull stubborness, Annie finally breaks through the barriers that seperate the frustrated Helen from the rest of the world and teachers the girl a method by which she can communicate with the people around her.
The original Broadway production of The Miracle Worker played from 19 Oct 1959 - 1 Jul 1961 at the Playhouse Theatre. That production, directed by Arthur Penn, starred Anne Bancroft as 'Annie Sullivan' and Patty Duke as 'Helen Keller.' The production won four 1960 Tony Awards: Best Play; Best Director; Best Actress in a Play (Anne Bancroft) and Best Stage Technician (John Walters).
The play was made into a succesful 1962 movie - also directed by Arthur Penn and which also starried Anne Bancroft as 'Annie Sullivan.' and Patty Duke as 'Helen Keller.' The movie won two Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Anne Bancroft) and Best actress in a supporting role (Patty Duke).
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Video: A Blind Photographer and ‘The Miracle Worker’
By ERIK PIEPENBURG
When the coming revival of William Gibson’s “Miracle Worker,” starring Alison Pill as Annie Sullivan and Abigail Breslin as Helen Keller, opens in March, a blind photographer will have helped bring it to Broadway.
John Dugdale, whose blindness came as the result of an AIDS-related stroke in 1993, works with an assistant, Dan Levin, who helps him shoot using an antique large-format camera.
“All I have to do is speak out loud with the slightest direction, and he makes the photographs with me in a way that I feel like I’m making them myself,” Mr. Dugdale said of Mr. Levin.
In this exclusive video, produced by Art Meets Commerce, a theatrical advertising agency, Mr. Dugdale talks about the challenges of being a blind photographer, and offers a look at his photo shoot with Ms. Pill and Ms. Breslin. (More information about Mr. Dugdale and his work is at his Web site.)
The hiring of Mr. Dugdale comes as protests have trailed the show. Last October, the Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, an advocacy group for blind and deaf actors, among others, opposed a decision by the producers to not audition actresses for the role of Helen who shared her disabilities. (Readers’ comments on the controversy are here.)
In December, the producers announced that Kyra Ynez, a vision-impaired 10-year-old, would be Ms. Breslin’s understudy.
“The Miracle Worker” begins previews at Circle in the Square on Feb. 12 and opens on March 3.
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Hem... ma solo io trovo leggermente assurdo un fotografo cieco?
Grazie Ale!
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CITAZIONEHem... ma solo io trovo leggermente assurdo un fotografo cieco?
c'è un episodio, se non erro di NCIS, in cui pure là c'era un fotografo cieco che faceva lavori fantastici e che spiegava come riusciva a fare il suo lavoro ... lo avevo pensato come uno stratagemma narrativo ... e invece ... mi ha pure invitato sul suo sito!. -
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Sì?
Quello che mi fa strano è che lui potrà anche spiegare ad un altro cosa vorrebbe fotografare ecc, ma poi il fotografo effettivo è l'altro e lui non saprà mai se lo scatto è davvero quello che voleva lui...
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stando sull'OT per un momento, almeno quello di NCIS sapeva esattamente che cosa c'era nella foto 
ma non ricordo come ... mi pare che lo descrivesse attraverso gli odori. Chissà se un tempo vedeva?? quello di NCIS sì... /OT
penso che abbiano scelto questo fotografo proprio per legarlo indissolubilmente ad Anna dei miracoli ... in ogni caso ... a dispetto di chi fa le foto ... io adesso voglio vedere queste benedette foto del cast, soprattutto (ovviamente) quelle di Jen. -
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L'articolo dice che è diventato cieco dopo un ictus legato all'AIDS di cui soffre, quindi sì, prima vedeva.
Fra l'altro l'ictus l'ha avuto nel '93 quindi la Breslin e Jen di sicuro non le ha mai viste!
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The Miracle Worker Official site has posted the first rehearsal day clip Jennifer speaks
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wow! thank you... I'm in the mood now 
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