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Home Front: WoT
'Rachel Corrie' Finally Falls Flat
2006-12-07
On Broadway, that is. Via Opinion Journal.
After a year of controversy and debate, “My Name Is St. Pancake Rachel Corrie” is closing. The one-woman play was put together by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner from the writings of an American-born terrorist sympathsizer Palestinian-rights advocate who was killed in 2003 by her own stupidity an Israeli Army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip. After its final performance on Dec. 17, “Rachel Corrie” will have played 9 previews and 71 regular performances at the Minetta Lane Theater in Greenwich Village.

The run of IHOP “Rachel Corrie” was tranquil compared with the uproar that preceded its arrival. The production was initially scheduled to move in March from the Royal Court Theater in London to the New York Theater Workshop. But when the workshop’s artistic director, James C. Nicola, decided to postpone the show, many in the theater community erupted in protest. In June, Dena Hammerstein and Pam Pariseau announced that they would produce it for a commercial run Off Broadway.
Posted by:Raj

#5  I think St. P. only liked Arab wood.
Posted by: Flavilet Ulilet1918   2006-12-07 21:56  

#4  Just not cut out for standup comedy, I guess

You need a wood support to stand-up a 2-D cut-out.
Posted by: DMFD   2006-12-07 20:16  

#3  Varoom Varoom, clank, clank, clank.

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Posted by: Besoeker   2006-12-07 18:42  

#2  The D-9 pin up girl fell flat in Gaza, too. Just not cut out for standup comedy, I guess.
Posted by: Phineter Thraviger   2006-12-07 16:53  

#1  They say the girls are something else on Broadway
But looking at them just gives me the blues
'Cause how ya gonna make some time
When all you got is one thin dime?
And one thin dime won't even shine your shoes

-- Cynthia Weil, Barry Mann, Leiber & Stoller
Posted by: badanov   2006-12-07 15:55  

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