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Broadway's Best Share Why MISERY Freaks Them Out!
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Nov 7, 2022
Broadway's new suspense thriller Misery, starring two-time Emmy Award winner and Golden Globe Award winner Bruce Willis and three-time Emmy Award winner Laurie Metcalf and written by two-time Academy Award winner William Goldman, opened last night, Sunday, November 15, 2015, in a strictly limited 16-week engagement. BroadwayWorld was on the red carpet to find out why the evening's big guests get freaked out by the story. Check out what they had to say below!
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Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World
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Bruce Willis is making his Broadway debut opposite Laurie Metcalf in Misery
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The suspense stiller by William Goldman based on the best-selling novel by Stephen King
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And we're here on the opening night red carpet where the stars came out to celebrate
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I said we never thought, you know, 25 years ago when we're making a film that it's going to turn out to be a Broadway show
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Although we did think that if anything could lend itself, it would be this because it takes place to be
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in one room. Seventy-five percent of the film took place in one room, and it's essentially a two-character piece
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This is, I was here two nights ago. This, I'm so glad suspense thriller is back on Broadway
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Yeah. What was it like, I mean, you worked with Stephen King before this, right? Yes, I did stand by me
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which was based on a short story called The Body, and we also, we, at Castle Rock, we actually
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produced seven Stephen King stories into films. We did the Green Mile, and we did Doors
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Lars Claiborne and Shawshank Redemption. And so we're pretty connected with him
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I love a feel bad. I hope it's a feel bad horror thom where people are gagging in the aisles and screaming
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I was here two nights ago. This is so scary. It is so great to have a suspense thriller back on Broadway
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Yeah, me too. I can't wait to see it. I'm a fan. I saw the movie
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I read the book. Let's talk about this. You're a big fan of the book and the movie, right
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Yeah. So each time they've got to change it a little, you know, to make it new, which I bet they
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And I'm sure they did. So when you think of... When you think of misery, what's the scariest scene in the book or the film that comes to mind for you
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Well, anybody that has made every fan that ever says to you, I'm your biggest fan, a nightmare
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So that line, anyone who's ever signed an autograph, someone said that to him
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So it has taken on a whole new meaning. Are you a huge fan of the book in the film
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I'm too scared to be a fan of anything that's horror-oriented. Kiala, on the other hand, is jumping up and now
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She's been waiting to see this show for how long? for, well, I wanted to be in it
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But that didn't work out. I saw this two nice to go. We all know the ending
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I was so scared. It is so fabulous to have this back I going home Get over here Get over here Wait If you could pick like the scariest part of the book or the film what it for you It the end when he at Plug your ears Plug your ears La la la la la
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It's at the end of the movie where he's in the restaurant, and he looks up and he thinks he sees her
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and he for a split second almost dies and realizes, oh, no, it's her
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But then you can't really say it. You just ruined it for everyone. No, you weren't supposed to listen
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No, but everybody else is listening. No, no, but that's afterwards. That's afterwards. Okay. As soon as the lights go out, that's going to be the scariest part for me in general
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Were you a big fan of the book or the film before here? Yes, I'm a huge fan of the book and the film, both
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And I've even read the adaptate screen, the play. So I'm a fan of all three forms
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I think it's just a great story. It's a beautifully written story
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You know, perfectly written mystery. It's great. There's not been a suspense thriller on Broadway
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I think since something like Death Trap. You know, this is great because it's such a claustrophobic story
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And so the intensity of a theater and the sort of sense of being trapped, I'm really looking forward to it
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And I can't imagine anyone better for this part than Lori Metcalf. So I really wanted to be here tonight
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I'm so excited. I mean, I want to be scared, personally. Get ready, my friend
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I was here two nights ago. Oh, yeah. It is so... And we know the story, but it's so scary
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Yeah, yeah. And I have to say, I mean, as I was just saying, I'm kind of very fascinated with the process of adaptation
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so I want to see what they've actually done with the source material. So, yeah, yeah. And I mean, that's not scary in itself
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But, yeah, the effect that we're all, you know, waiting for should be great
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And Bruce Willis, my God, come on. Were you a big fan of the book or the film
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I love the film, yeah, absolutely. I don't think you ever read the book. I must have read the book because I've read a lot of Stephen King, but I don't know
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I can't remember. But the film had a great effect on me with Kathy Bates. It's the scariest part of the film
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When you hear the word misery, what comes to mind? Like, I hope this ever happens to me
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Well, I think of the hobbling, yes, as we all do. How excited, a suspense thriller on Broadway, besides yours
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Besides mine, no, I'm excited to see what they're going to do, you know, how they're going to keep the audience's hearts going
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We're trying to do the same thing, yeah. Have you been a big fan of the book or the film
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No you know I actually going in completely cold I just excited to be here and to see these two great actors Go at it yeah This is so scary Oh God I don know if I ready See I grew up without a TV so I didn grow up with these thrillers or anything So I just go to the theater for mine
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Were you a big fan of the book or the film? Yes, both. Like, both religiously
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I was here the other night. It is so scary. I love it
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I can't wait. It's like a suspense thriller back. I'm not. Scary movies and thrillers and things of that nature. I'm obsessed
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Like, I watch them all the time. We have a scary movie club that I have to. Do it all the time
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Okay, scariest part of the movie for you is what, that you say, I hope this never happens to me
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When she pushes them down the stairs. I mean, like, come on. I'll be like, I'll find
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I'll do anything. I'll cook your food. I'll wash your feet. Just don't push me down the stairs. But isn't it great to have a suspense thriller back on Broadway
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Yes, I've been waiting for a while. We haven't had one in a while, right? I've been waiting because I love it
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I love that stuff. I have you guys to be here. I'm excited and a little scared. I'm a little, I don't, when she brings out that sledgehammer, I'm going to be a little, like, you know, biting the nails
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I can't wait for someone. to be clubbed. That's what I've been waiting all day for. So I'm going to be just wiped right across the ankles
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I was here the other day. It is so scary this show
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Were you fans of the film? Huge fans. Loved it. Loved it, loved it, loved it
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Can I wait to see Lori Metcalf? Yes. She is going to scare us and keep us awake all night
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Okay, so when you think of misery, what part of the story comes to mind for each of you
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You go first. Let's see. I'm going to say when she's coming back from town and he's like
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like, holy crap. In the kitchen? Yes. And like, what am I
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From a knife. Love that part. Love it, love it, love it
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From the minute the car crash happens, I'm like, okay, this is not going to be good
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for anyone, but beautifully fun for everybody in the audience. What's it been like living in the world of the Willis home with him rehearsing this show
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Tell me. You know what? He started rehearsing a long time ago and just, you know, getting his lines and doing all that
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and heading off. And, you know, I was reading lines with him at one point
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Did he tell you that? Oh, my God, oh, God. Tell me. I had Annie Wilkes down so well until I saw Lori do it
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And I was like, oh, gosh, she just plays it way better than I do. Yeah
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So, I mean, he's just been in full misery mode. He doesn bring it home obviously except for the scars and the bruises on his legs at the end of the night But yeah We freaks for the Stephen King And the misery And the Medcalf
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And the Willis. And the rest. I was here the other night
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This is so scary. I was thinking the last time on Broadway was like sleuth and death trap
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We've not had a mystery suspense on Broadway in so many years
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It's hard to do it. The last thing that was scary was let the right one in it, bam
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It was terrifying. But I haven't seen anything that scary. in a while. Yeah, yeah, that was scary
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at BAM. It was a vampire play. Okay, so scariest part when you're like, oh God, when I think of misery, I'm like
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please never let that happen to me. The hobbling is brutal. But when he's like crawling
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to get back in the chair when she's on her way home, it's horrifying. Or when she notices the pig is out of place
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You know something horrible is going to happen. This whole set turns as he goes into the kitchen
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You're going to be so freakish. When she is hobbling? Hobbling. Don't even tell me. I don't want to know
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No, what are you? You like my sister. He gives it all the way. It's hilarious. No. They all die
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They all die in the issue. I don't see that movie. I don't want to say this. I won't say too much
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But, yeah, they all get cruised to fight at the end. You see it and you hear the crack and you're like, oh, my God
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It's brilliant. It's so brilliant. I can't. I can't wait. You two are back on stage together
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Talk about your new show. Steve at the new group. It's the first time on stage together, really. Yeah
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It's called Steve. Yeah. It's a great. Cynthia Nixon. That's not a person. That's a show
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Yeah. Well, it's a person, too. But it's more, many persons. Yeah
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And it's, Cynthia Nixon directed it and we're excited to do it today. I feel, I mean, I feel spectacular
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It's such a strange, amazing, wonderful moment to suddenly have a show on Broadway
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Such an incredible and odd thing to be happening. So I'm very excited and slightly baffled by the whole thing
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Were you a big fan of the book in the film before you took this project on? No, I'd never seen the film because I am a coward
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And I remembered the trailer, and I found it too scary to imagine watching the film. So no, and then I watched
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When they called me about it, and before I went in to talk to everyone for the first time
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my daughter was born three days before I met with the people
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So I sat in the hospital with my like two-day-old daughter. I'm reading this book in a state of complete..
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And they're freaking out, right? Freaking out completely
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