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Loading ...Revival of ‘Angels in America’ set for off-B’way
09.02.2009 8:59am EDT
(New York) “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes” will fly again in New York – off-Broadway.
The mammoth, two-part drama by Tony Kushner will be presented by the Signature Theatre Company during its 2010-2011 season as part of a yearlong celebration of the playwright.Artistic director James Houghton (HOW’-tuhn) says the play’s two parts, “Millennium Approaches” and “Perestroika” (payr-ehs-TROY’-kuh) will be performed in rep.
No casting was announced, but the play, a tale of AIDs in the Age of Reagan, will be directed by Michael Greif (GRYF), who also directed “Rent” and “Next to Normal.”
The Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning “Angels” was first seen on Broadway in 1993 and later was made into an HBO film starring Al Pacino and Meryl Streep.
Funny that the AP thinks its mainstream readers can’t pronounce such common names…and GRYF could be pronounced two ways. I believe the better way to phoeneticize that would be GREEF or GRIF depending on correct pronounciation.
No comment on story, I just found all that instruction a little annoying. How else would you pronounce houghton????
I used to be a journalist in the AF, and as such had access to the AP wire on a daily basis. It is standard practice on all AP stories (when there could be multiple proununciations to include a phoenetic spelling for broadcast jouranlists.
The editors on this site should have caught that and deleted it.