To Kill a Mockingbirdがブロードウェイに

あのWest Wingをはじめ数々の名作を生み出しているAaron SorkinがTo Kill a Mockingbirdの舞台の脚本を書くそうです。舞台は来年のようですが楽しみですね。

Aaron Sorkin writing To Kill a Mockingbird stage adaptation
BY JESSICA DERSCHOWITZ
Posted February 10 2016 — 8:25 AM EST

Aaron Sorkin is bringing Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird to Broadway.

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The Oscar-winning screenwriter is writing a new stage adaptation of the iconic novel that will show during the 2017-2018 Broadway season, producer Scott Rudin — with whom Sorkin worked on last year’s Steve Jobs — announced Wednesday. Tony winner Bartlett Sher (The King and I, Fiddler on the Roof) is set to direct.

Go Set a Watchmanが出てからなんだ本心は人種差別をやむを得ないと思っているんじゃないかという流れになってしまいやすいなか、To Kill a Mockingbirdという作品そのものに立ち返ることは素晴らしい試みです。

演出家のBartlett Sherは渡辺謙さんの「王様と私」も演出されていたようですね。ちょうど謙さん舞台返り咲きというニュースも飛び込んできました。

Ken Watanabe Announces Date for King and I Return
By Robert Viagas
11 Feb 2016
Tony nominee Ken Watanabe, who postponed his return to the role of the King of Siam in Lincoln Center Theater's Tony-winning Broadway revival of The King and I after undergoing laparoscopic surgery for stomach cancer, has set the date for his return.

Watanabe's cancer was caught at an early stage. He had been scheduled to recreate his Tony-nominated performance as King for seven weeks, March 1-April 17. He will now give his first return performance on March 17. Hoon Lee, who is currently playing the King of Siam, will play his final performance March 16.

Jose Llana, who succeeded Watanabe in the role last fall, is scheduled to perform as the King April 19-May 1.