Miller's Finishing the Picture Extends in Chicago
by Broadway Staff • Oct 1, 2004
The Goodman Theatre has extended the run of its world premiere production of Arthur Miller's Finishing the Picture by one week. The show, which features Frances Fisher, Scott Glenn, Stacy Keach, Stephen Lang, Linda Lavin, Matthew Modine, Heather Prete and and Harris Yulin, will now run in Chicago through November 7.
Finishing the Picture is said to be loosely based on the filming of Miller's ex-wife Marilyn Monroe's last completed film, The Misfits. It centers on a distinguished director Yulin who is about to lose his picture due to the unstable behavior of a famously fragile movie star Prete. She's recognized all over the world, loved by millions, but unable to believe in herself. The studio owner Keach is threatening to pull the plug and a temperamental acting teacher Lang is flown in to coax the actress out of bed and onto the set.
Finishing the Picture is said to be loosely based on the filming of Miller's ex-wife Marilyn Monroe's last completed film, The Misfits. It centers on a distinguished director Yulin who is about to lose his picture due to the unstable behavior of a famously fragile movie star Prete. She's recognized all over the world, loved by millions, but unable to believe in herself. The studio owner Keach is threatening to pull the plug and a temperamental acting teacher Lang is flown in to coax the actress out of bed and onto the set.
Finishing the Picture, directed by Robert Falls, is currently in previews and is scheduled to officially open on October 5.