EXCLUSIVE: In a very interesting move, Deadline hears that producers of the currently previewing Broadway revival of David Mamet‘s Glengarry Glen Ross starring Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, Bill Burr and Michael McKean are planning to stage the play with an all-female cast once the current gang’s limited engagement ends on June 14.
Directed by Patrick Marber, the Culkin-led cast of Glengarry has already been extended twice since beginning previews March 10. Opening night, at the Palace Theatre, is March 31.
While a production spokesperson would neither confirm nor deny the plan, he did provide the following statement to Deadline: “Over the years there has been interest expressed to both playwright David Mamet and producer Jeffrey Richards about an all-female cast of Glengarry Glen Ross. In fact, there was a reading in 2022 with a female company. At this time, the focus is on the production currently on Broadway starring Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, Bill Burr, Michael McKean, Donald Webber, Jr., Howard W. Overshown, John Pirruccello.”
No word yet on who might appear in the female cast, which could hit the Palace stage this summer.
The possibility of an all-female Glengarry on Broadway has been around for a while. In 2018, producer Richards was planning just such a production under the direction of Chicago P.D. actress Amy Morton. That staging was set to begin performances in 2019 but never came off.
Back in 2013 an all-female reading of the play was held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art featuring Robin Wright, Catherine O’Hara, Maria Bello, Allison Janney and Mae Whitman.
Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1983 drama is set in a cutthroat Chicago real estate office where four salespeople compete to sell mostly worthless properties to unwitting customers. Whoever sells the most wins a car; whoever sells the least is out of a job – a ruthless environment where each character will do anything to come out on top.
Richards, the lead producer of Glengarry Glen Ross, was the press agent for the original production in 1984, and subsequently produced revivals in 2005 and 2012.
