West Coast Salome Tour, Starring Pacino and Tomei, Canceled

In a bizarre move, producers have called off the West Coast tour of Salome: The Reading in Concert, with Al Pacino and Marisa Tomei, the same day it was announced in Variety. Scheduling conflicts were cited for the cancellation. Oscar Wilde's Salome follows the legend of King Herod Pacino and his unbridled lust for his young stepdaughter, Salome Tomei. Her arousal and sexual baiting of the pious John the Baptist, and his subsequent rejection of her, sets the stage for this tale of lust and revenge.

Pacino and Tomei starred in a concert reading of Salome, directed by Estelle Parsons, at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn from November 12 through December 22, 2002. That production transferred to Broadway for a limited engagement at the Barrymore Theatre in 2003.
The production was expected to start its tour on April 25 at The California Theater for the Performing Arts in San Bernardino.