Last night we went to see Cate Blanchett in A Streetcar Named Desire at BAM. Here are all the Blanche DuBoises I have seen:
1. Vivien Leigh (1951 movie version)
2. Shirley Knight (1976 in Philadelphia, I think it was the McCarter Theatre)
3. Blythe Danner (Circle In the Square, 1988 or so)
4. Jessica Lange (1992 Broadway with Alec Baldwin, she also did it for TV)
5. Ann-Margret (also TV version opposite Treat Williams)
6. Elizabeth Marvel (weird-ass New York Theatre Workshop production)
7. Natasha Richardson (Roundabout Theatre Company)
8. Marin Mazzie (2009 Berkshire Theatre Festival)
9. Cate Blanchett
Hamlet seems to be the male equivalent of Blanche as a role much sought after. Here are all the Hamlets I can remember seeing:
1. Laurence Olivier (1940s film version)
2. John Glover (1976 or 77, Walnut Street Theater. I remember a girl I knew in high school saying "Hamlet's a fox")
3. Derek Jacobi (BBC TV version, ironically Patrick Stewart was Claudius and later played it opposite David Tenant's Hamlet. Tenant is Doctor Who and that Hamlet is going to be on TV next year sometime)
4. Kevin Kline (twice at the Public)
5. Mel Gibson (1990s movie)
6. Kenneth Branagh (later 1990s movie)
7. Stephen Lange (crappy Roundabout Thetre version)
8. Peter Stomare (Ingmar Bergman production at BAM in Swedish)
9. Villanova production, two or three Off-Off-Bway productions I can't remember
10. Ralph Fiennes (on Broadway)
11. Maggie Smith's son (in London)
12. Michael Stuhlbarg (in Central Park last summer)
13. Jude Law
14. Richard Burton (on a DVD of his 1964 Broadway performance, he was in love with the sound of his own voice and not playing the part)
15. Bob Denver (in the musical version on Gilligan's Island--"Neither a borrower nor a lender be/ There's just one other thing you've got to do/ To thine own self be true!"--directed by Ida Lupino).
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