Derek Jacobi Not the Man for Kennedy Center in 1998-99 | Playbill

Related Articles
News Derek Jacobi Not the Man for Kennedy Center in 1998-99 The American tour of Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons will not open in April 1999 at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center as previously announced. The postponement was confirmed by Center spokesman Paul Bilyeu. The Julie Harris-Charles Durning tour of The Gin Game will fill the vacancy.

The American tour of Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons will not open in April 1999 at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center as previously announced. The postponement was confirmed by Center spokesman Paul Bilyeu. The Julie Harris-Charles Durning tour of The Gin Game will fill the vacancy.

The Jacobi production will reach Washington sometime during the 1999-2000 season, said Bilyeu. The Kennedy Center was intended as the first stop on a national tour eventually leading to Broadway. Bilyeu cited a scheduling conflict involving Jacobi as the reason for the delay.

The drama tells the story of the confrontations between Britain's King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More over whether the king could divorce his queen and take a new wife because she had not produced a male heir. Their battle resulted in More's execution and the Protestant Reformation coming to England -- but not before they clashed over some of the great questions of God, man, lust and power.

Jacobi will play More, a role that provided a major stage and film vehicle for Paul Scofield in the 1960s.

Jacobi, himself a Tony winner for Much Ado About Nothing, has appeared on Broadway in Breaking The Code, Cyrano de Bergerac and The Suicide. -- By Robert Simonson and Robert Viagas

 
RELATED:
Today’s Most Popular News:
 X

Blocking belongs
on the stage,
not on websites.

Our website is made possible by
displaying online advertisements to our visitors.

Please consider supporting us by
whitelisting playbill.com with your ad blocker.
Thank you!