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For followers of Invoice & Ted’s Wonderful Journey and all of their subsequent bogus journeys, this week represented the most effective of occasions and the worst of occasions. The most effective of occasions: The movie’s stars, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, are reuniting for the primary time since 2020’s Invoice & Ted Face the Music.
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The worst of occasions: Reasonably than teaming up for one more Invoice and Ted extravaganza, Reeves and Winter are headed to Broadway to costar in a revival of Samuel Beckett’s Ready for Godot. Unusual issues are afoot on the Circle Okay, certainly.
It was all Reeves’ concept, in keeping with Jamie Lloyd, who will direct Reeves’ Broadway debut. Surprisingly, no less than to me, Winter appeared on Broadway twice as a teen in revivals of The King and I and Peter Pan.
“It was a no brainer that this wanted to be achieved,” Lloyd instructed The New York Instances regardless of the concept occurring to utterly nobody earlier than the John Wick star floated the notion. The director believes the play is a pure for Reeves and Winter. “Their prompt chemistry and their shorthand and their friendship goes to be so worthwhile. It is a very deeply complicated play, as everyone knows, nevertheless it’s additionally a really humorous play, they usually’re very witty individuals and their shared humorousness in these motion pictures and in actual life goes to be very useful to the manufacturing.”
It’s not the primary time comedian actors have taken on Ready for Godot as a method to attempt for a bit legitimacy. In 1987, Robin Williams and Steve Martin teamed up for a run on the Lincoln Heart. The opinions had been solely so-so. “Audiences will nonetheless be ready for a transcendent Godot lengthy after the clowns at Lincoln Heart … have come and gone,” wrote Frank Wealthy in The New York Instances.
Can Reeves and Winter ship a transcendent Godot? Extra celebrated actors have tried and failed, however something is feasible. Followers of Invoice & Ted ought to know, nevertheless, that Beckett’s play isn’t precisely fun riot. Certain, Lloyd says the play is “very humorous,” however the comedy falls extra into the “bleak absurdist” class quite than “dumb guys touring via time in a cellphone sales space.”
Nonetheless, if Reeves and Winter ever sense the viewers is getting a bit bored, they will all the time bust out a bit air guitar.
