Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy on the origins of The Iceman Cometh

Tony Award-winning stage and screen actors Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy discuss the origins of and inspiration for Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, and the role of humor in the play.
Listen to the full talk on SoundCloud: bit.ly/IcemanTalkAudio
From:
Talk: Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy
Monday, Mar 2, 2015
BAM Harvey Theater
Moderated by Linda Winer, chief theater critic and arts columnist at Newsday.
Set Designer, The Iceman Cometh: Kevin Depinet

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Fascinating, insightful stuff on O'Neill and his plays and on the roles that these two outstanding actors had inhabited... wish the interview had been longer...

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Fun fact - Nathan Lane keeps a pair of Eugene O'Neil's monogrammed boxer shorts framed inside his home.

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O'Neill's mother kicked morphine COLD TURKEY in a NYC convent two years after when this play takes place. She traveled and lived her son Jamie who also kicked his drinking. When his mother died, Jamie fell into total alcoholism (Moon for the Misbegootten).

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I can't see Nathan Lane as Hickey. I guess that's the definition of casting against type.

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I'm right there with you on that one. Maybe he pulled it of

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@@MetFansince I can't see him as Hickey either. The 2 great ones I saw were Jason Robards and Kevin Spacey. Both of them were very close, maybe Spacey had an edge on the boisterous side of Hickey and Robards on the more serious side. We have a lot of great versions of the play on software but not Spacey's. I would pay big bucks for any type of copy of it. I don't understand, I have 2 versions of Jason's but nothing of Kevin's (except for a 10 minute segment on YT) and Spacey's was over 22 years ago.