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Article: All-star `Godot' actors stay faithful to Beckett's spirit
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 8, 1988
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NEW YORK Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot," a landmark of
avant-garde theater since it was first produced in 1953, has opened
here for a limited engagement in the Mitzi Newhouse Theater at
Lincoln Center.
It's no surprise that this "Godot" is the hottest ticket in New
York. (Cher and Wallace Shawn were among the glitterati in a preview
audience.) I suspect the show's box-office success has less to do
with the play itself - a masterpiece by a profound comic genius -
than the fact that its cast list reads like the lineup for an
all-star game, with director Mike Nichols as the coach.
Steve Martin and Robin Williams play Vladimir and Estragon - the
two tragicomic tramps dressed in rags ...