Al Pacino and Marisa Tomei Take Salome to the West Coast

Salome: The Reading in Concert, with Al Pacino and Marisa Tomei, will begin a short California tour on April 25 at The California Theater for the Performing Arts in San Bernardino, according to Variety.

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. While Pacino and Tomei are reprising their roles on the West Coast, the entire New York cast will not be going with them. For example, Dianne Wiest, who played Herodias, will be busy appearing off-Broadway in Kathleen Tolan's The Memory House while Salome is making the rounds. A complete cast for the California tour has not yet been announced.