#CYRANO DE BERGERAC FILM 2008 MOVIE#

There is one nice scene when Cyrano bemoans the fact to his friend Le Bret (Max Baker) that Roxane (well played by French actress ClГ©mence PoГ©sy) cannot get past his nose to see his love for her. Hodge, who won a Tony in 2010 playing a cross-dressing night club performer in La Cage aux Folles, does have a few reflective moments. This is followed by shouts from the back of the house, the orchestra, and eventually the stage, the point being the guy is highly athletic, and unpredictable. All of the sudden, Cyrano, inhabited by Douglas Hodge sporting the grossest nose known to mankind, which makes the deceased Michael JacksonвЂ™s nose look normal, is heard yelling from the balcony. The play opens, in opera-like fashion, which means a stage filled with lots of costumed extras waiting for and talking about Cyrano- where is he, when is he coming, and what he is going to do when he gets here. Alas, and sadly, no such occurrence took place.

I wish I could say that their production of Cyrano вЂ“ among the most romantic theatrical chestnuts and long a favorite of mine вЂ“ blew me away. It is also rumored that he did have an affair with his cousin upon whom he based the character Roxanne.Д¬yrano, thanks to the Roundabout Theatre Company, is back on Broadway. Ishbel Addyman revealed these facts in her book Cyrano: The Life and Legend of Cyrano de Bergerac (2008). In none of the adaptations is there any mention of Cyrano having had a fourteen year long affair with writer musician Charles Coypeau dвЂ™Assoucy, or suffering from tertiary Syphilis and being confined to an asylum by his own brother. Nominated for an Oscar as Best Actor, Depardieu lost out to Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune. The dialog was in French with subtitles written in rhymed couplets the form of the dialogue in the original play.

In 1990, the play was adapted for screen with Gerard Depardieu in the title role.

#CYRANO DE BERGERAC FILM 2008 MOVIE#

However, it is Ferrer, in the play (1946 Tony), movie (1950 Oscar), and TV (19), who brought Cyrano to true prominence in this country. Made into a musical in 1973, Plummer won a Tony for his performance.

Many modern day actors such as Sir Ralph Richardson (1946), Richard Chamberlain (1973), Christopher Plummer (1973), Derek Jacobi (1984), Frank Langella (1997), and Kevin Kline (2007), brought the swashbuckling versifier to stage. The longest-running Broadway production ran 232 performances in 1923 and starred Walter Hampden, who returned to the role on the Great White Way in 1926, 1928, 1932, and 1936. Richard Mansfield was the first actor to play Cyrano in the United States in an English translation. The highly romantic role of Cyrano was equally sought after by a stream of actors eager to play the wild and poetic hero.

Not unlike DumasвЂ™ Camille in which countless actresses, among them вЂ“ Bernhardt, Duse, Nazimova, Charles Ludlam, and the forever incandescent Garbo, in her most famous role, lined up around the block to play the beautiful tubercular courtesan. Cyrano, with many translations under its belt, has been performed, from rhyming couplets to modern day speech, to song, by a cadre of actors, stage, screen, and TV. Intoxicated by what she believes are ChristianвЂ™s florid confessions, she declares her love for Christian.ДЇirst performed in Paris by Constant Coquelin in 1897, and at ThГ©Гўtre de la Porte Saint-Martin вЂ“ in 1900, he brought the play to the U.S. In the playвЂ™s most famous scene - shades of the Romeo and Juliet balcony scene вЂ“ the tongue-tied Christian, using lines being fed to him by Cyrano, is seen declaring his love for Roxane. He is obliged to woo her on behalf of a more conventionally handsome but less articulate friend, Christian de Neuvillette. Published in 1897 by the French poet Edmond Rostand, the play, his most successful work, is the story of Cyrano's love for his cousin the beautiful Roxane. Yes, Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619 вЂ“ 1655), the French dramatist and duelist actually existed though not exactly in the form that dramatists have portrayed him. Everybody knows Cyrano de Bergerac вЂ“ he of the bulbous snout вЂ“ if not by name alone, than by play, movie, or perhaps even history.

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