Tonys 2008: Stoppard's 'Rock' rolls onto Broadway
Four months after breaking the record for most Tonys won by a play (seven for "The Coast of Utopia"), author Tom Stoppard returns to the Rialto with another political drama, "Rock 'n' Roll." While that trilogy, which won him his fourth Tony, explored the roots of radicalism in nineteenth century Russia, this new play examines the downfall of Marxism.
"Rock" rolls into the Jacobs Theater on October 19, thirty-nine years to the day that Stoppard's first Broadway play, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," closed after a yearlong run. That play won him the first of his Tonys, with the others coming in 1976 for "Travesties" and in 1984 for "The Real Thing."
This Broadway production will star the three London leads - Brian Cox, Rufus Sewell, and Sinead Cusack - as a professor, a student, and the women in their lives. Sewell won the triple crown of West End theater awards (the Olivier, Evening Standard, and Critics Circle) while the play won the latter two, losing the Olivier to "Blackbird" by David Harrower.
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