A View From The Bridge 1997-1998
A View From the Bridge ran from December 14, 1997 to August 30, 1998 and was staged at two different locations during the run: Criterion Center Stage Right, 1530 Broadway New York, NY (12/14/1997 - 2/22/1998) and after the hiatus, at the Neil Simon Theatre, 250 West 52nd Street, New York, NY (4/15/1998 - 8/30/1998)
Play by Arthur Miller; the story takes place in 1950s America, in an Italian-American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It employs a chorus and narrator in the character of Alfieri. Eddie, the tragic protagonist, has an improper love of, and almost obsession with, Catherine - his wife Beatrice's orphaned niece. Allison played the role of Beatrice.
Directed by Michael Mayer. With Anthony LaPaglia and Brittany Murphy in her Broadway debut.
Allison won several prestigious awards for her work in ‘A View From The Bridge’ including:
1998 Drama Desk Award - Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
1998 Outer Critics Circle - Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Allison also received her first Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Play.
Articles and Reviews about ‘A View From The Bridge”
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THEATER REVIEW; Incestuous Longings On the Waterfront" - New York Times
December 15, 1997
“Ms. Janney, in a dazzling shift from the wry sophisticate of last season’s ‘Present Laughter’, is every bit as good as the wife who sees all too clearly where Eddie’s affections for Catherine are leading him. Watch how Ms. Janney’s Beatrice modulates her own deep-seated fear and resentment with a willed air of practicality, the fraying self-containment she brings to her role as mediator in the family conflicts”
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"A View From The Bridge - Review" - Variety
December 14, 1997
“Ms. Janney, playing the wife as a frowzy, desperate woman fighting a losing battle, lends some honest emotion to the surrounding affectation.”
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'Charlie Rose' - Roundtable
June 4, 1998.
Watch the twenty-minute video of Allison, Anthony Lapaglia and director Michael Miller discuss their adaptation of Arthur Miller’s play
A promotional flyer for the show’s April 1998 move to the Neil Simon theater; the show ran there until it closed on August 30, 1998
