Playbill News: Joan Didion’s Memoir “The Year of Magical Thinking” to Become Broadway Play:
“The Year of Magical Thinking,” writer Joan Didion’s first-person account of the recent death of her husband, and the decline of her daughter, is being converted into a play, to be produced by Scott Rudin and directed by David Hare.The New York Times reported Dec. 6 that Broadway and Hollywood producer Rudin approached noted novelist and essayist Didion with the idea. Hare said he hopes to do a reading of the work next spring, followed by several workshops and a projected Broadway bow in spring 2007.
The piece will be a one-person show, though Didion herself will not star.
Damn!
Let me go out on a limb here. This is a bad idea. It is one thing to write a memoir of horrendous loss. It’s another thing to see it turned into a movie. But to have it turned into a Broadway play? A one-man show following in the shoes of Hal Holbrook? That’s s a bridge too far.
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