A Steady Rain : Postscripts

[jo]

It looks like the Chicago Dramatists ( where it all started) is reviving A Steady Rain in Chicago, with its original cast!

www.chicagocommercialcollective.com/asteadyrain_wp/

The play has been staged for short periods in many places in the USA and even outside the USA. I guess the themes are universal and the staging can be effective without being expensive.

I have not given up on a film adaptation with Hugh and Daniel. But when I was able to ask him about it at the Broadhurst, Hugh's reply was that he has not kept up with the developments on the film adaptation.

All we know was that Keith Huff was supposing to be doing several drafts of the screenplay.

I hope that Hugh and Daniel could find a few months in their schedules for this little gem of storytelling, done on the big screen!

Jo

[jo]

Funny tweet --

Asteadyrainchi
I hope Denny's family is counted as part of the Olympic's Opening Night Nielsen ratings. Are you guys watching?

Jo

[foxie]

I liked A Steady Rain but I dont know about a movie there is so many other things he could do like musicals!!!

[jo]

Another international production -- there have been quite a few overseas staging. Maybe an indication that the dramatic play is excellent material for a film adaptation?

[jo]

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The story of Dahmer was part of A STEADY RAIN, wasn't it? Or derived from the real crimes committed by Dahmer?

Denny & Joey encountered a young boy hiding from his supposed uncle...and they let him be returned to the uncle... only to find out that he was a monster, who practiced cannibalism.

Hmm...had the plans to film the stage play solidified, then there would a direct connection to the now popular Netflix crime series.

Steady Rain was on Broadway in 2009.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Steady_Rain

A Steady Rain is a play by Keith Huff. With a plot similar to a real-life event involving Jeffrey Dahmer, it focuses on two Chicago policemen who inadvertently return a Vietnamese boy to a cannibalistic serial killer who claims to be the child's uncle. When he later becomes the man's latest victim, the lifelong friendship of the two men is threatened when it becomes clear someone must bear responsibility for their egregious failure to assess the situation accurately. The play alternates between two separate monologues and present-moment dialogue scenes.

Jo

[jo]

More Wiki notes on that Broadway production --

In his review of the Broadway production, Ben Brantley of The New York Times, who was generally satisfied with the performances of Jackman and, especially, Craig, wrote, "If Mr. Huff has not managed to reweave this premise [childhood friends find themselves on opposite sides of the law and in love with the same woman] with any surprising threads, he has packed it with enough lurid incident to fill a season of Law & Order."[6]

Time magazine's Richard Zoglin, naming it one of the Top 10 Plays of 2009 and ranking it at #2, commented that "Casting a couple of big movie stars in a Broadway play can cut both ways. Audiences may stand in line for tickets, but critics can put on their scowling "show-me" faces — as many did for Keith Huff's one-act play, which cast Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman as a pair of Chicago cops in crisis. Both stars were excellent, but they were wonderfully served by Huff's taut, tough-minded script, which takes potentially clichéd material — the moral challenges faced by cops on the urban mean streets — and makes it fresh and compelling."[7]

Reviews
"Jackman allows you to feel both the warmth and the tyranny of Denny's love. A taller presence than Craig, he takes up more stage space physically and theatrically, which is just how it should be, given the way his character swaggers like the king of his own limited universe." — LOS ANGELES TIMES[8]

"Jackman does an excellent job playing a man who heedlessly jumps the median between superego and id, in the best tradition of the self-mythologizing American sociopath. The erstwhile X-man has never spelled danger, with or without muttonchops." — NY MAGAZINE[9]

"Under John Crowley's direction, the two stars present the increasingly far-fetched tale with an amiable diffidence that lets them show you their acting ability, as each gets into his character's moments of personal pain, while carefully keeping the sordid events at a distance [...] Jackman, with his wonderful easy fluidity, shows once again that he's a natural-born stage star." — VILLAGE VOICE[10]

[jo]

"Jackman, with his wonderful easy fluidity, shows once again that he's a natural-born stage star." — VILLAGE VOICE

This play is arguably my favorite stage appearance of Hugh Jackman. I do like him when he does powerful dramatic roles... and he was excellent in A STEADY RAIN, as his character falls into a physical, mental, and emotional abyss!


Jo

[jo]

Btw, the actor who portrays Jeffrey Dahmer is Evan Peters.

Do you remember him as Quicksilver in XMen: Days of Future Past?


Jo

[jo]

There is respect for Hugh and Daniel as dramatic actors!

[jo]

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On this day in theatre history...2009 Hugh Jackman & Daniel Craig co-star in Keith Huff's police drama, A Steady Rain, which opens on Broadway. John Crowley directs the play about a pair of Chicago cops whose willingness to blink at corruption leads to disaster.







JoAB
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To be honest, maybe my favorite Hugh Jackman appearance on Broadway. I do prefer him in dramatic fare albeit he is perceived as more of a triple threat in musical theatre. He and Daniel rose to the challenge of alien roles to their acting portfolio.