August Wilson’s Broadway hit is really pulling in the stars now, but its own stars aren’t forgetting where the whole thing came from in the first place. Fences tickets have been sold out for every performance on Broadway and its 10 Tony nominations are proof of how good this show really is. Among the celebrities who’ve turned out to see the play starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis are Color Purple producer Oprah Winfrey. Oprah was seen at the Cort Theatre with her friend Gayle King recently, and they looked like they were having a great time.
Meanwhile, one of the Fences stars has paid tribute to playwright August Wilson for creating the play in the first place. Stephen McKinley Henderson, who earned a 2010 Tony nominee for playing a fantastic Jim Bono (friend of Trot Maxson), spoke recently about his excitement on learning he’d received his first Tony nomination.
“It just thrilled me,” Henderson said. “It thrilled me to get the nomination, but it always is about August. It’s always about what a privilege it was to work with him while he was here and how overjoyed he would be with this production of Fences. I mean, I know he would really be thrilled with it. And, the ten nominations. I mean, ten nominations! It’s such a wonderful company to be a part of, so I just feel so blessed.”
Fences isn’t Henderson’s Broadway debut; he was one of the original cast of Wilson’s King Hedley II plus he appeared in the revival of Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and Drowning Crow, and Dracula the Musical. Henderson praised the progressive nature of the New York theater scene and spoke of his happiness that actress Marian Seldes is to be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award this year. “That means so much to me, I cannot tell you,” Henderson said, “because she was such a wonderful, inspiring light when I came to New York in 1968. And, so, to be able to be at the Tonys this year when they’re going to honor her lifetime achievement just adds to the whole thing.” He added that he was immensely pleased and proud that the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Center, where August Wilson got his chance at the big time, is central to many of the playwrights and actors involved in Broadway theater since the late-60s. Little did he dream how well Fences tickets would sell for this 2010 Broadway revival.
Fences tickets sales are indeed driving recognition of the play as a great work, but there’s a whole arm of American theater history pushing those Fences tickets into the hands of those who seek them. His current success at the Cort Theater has given Henderson a renewed appetite for the stage and its history. He also gave a shout out to all the people who’d nurtured his talent and paved the way for this Tony Award nomination in 2010.
“I have been acting a long time,” he said, “and it has to do with tradition. It just has to do with the heritage of theater and all those people who believed in me when I was really young and who encouraged me and sometimes bailed me out. . . . The Tony represents the legacy and the heritage of theater. It’s old school and it’s current at the same time, and that’s what this means to me.”
Fences Broadway tickets are continuing to sell very well and if you’re curious to see what all the fuss is about, it is recommended that you buy Fences tickets soon, before the entire run is sold out!
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