Video: In Rehearsals with the Cast of GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS

I don't find how these guys talk shocking

I find it like it sounds like how I grew up. So soothing

I would say soothing, but it's just like, I know that guy. I know this guy

I know that guy. And then I also feel the story with, you know, if they asked me to Annie, I would have done it

Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World. David Mammoth's Glenn Gary Glenn Ross is returning to Broadway

Performances begin on March 10th at the Palace Theater under the direction of

Patrick Marber and I caught up with a stellar cast here at the Pebble Bar during a break in rehearsal

You can't beat this lineup that we got here, right? Karen is on this crazy, crazy year right now

What are you doing here? Oscar nominee, Zap. No, no, no. Bob, Bill, Kevin, and then I just got a chance to meet John and Howard

These guys are incredible. I mean, truly, I already said, did I not say Michael? And, of course, Michael were going to say

But no, these guys are like... heard anyway. I didn't notice. Okay, good. These guys, I mean, I've watched their work for so long, and when I had the opportunity

to join, I was like, oh, yeah, I'm in there 100%. And I'm just excited to continue to do the thing with these guys

Shit, I wish I had such a, it was so enthusiastic, and my energy is going to be

way down here. To be honest, like, the last time I did theater was a little over 10 years ago, it was

Broadway and I remember where that experience ended. I was like, that was perfect

I'm never doing it again. And one of the reasons was because it was kind of the perfect

experience I spent like years trying to get that play I had to commit some playwright that I could play that part because he was sure I couldn I got to do it be on stage with my best friend And when it ended I was like well I never I did the perfect one I done

And since I've had a couple things come by and sometimes they're good, I'm like, ah, I just don't want to do it anymore

I've done that. I've done the best version of it. So when this came, I had never seen production, I've never seen the film, I never read it before

I went, fine, I'll read it. And right it went, oh, okay, well, this is going to be hard to say no to

And pretty much, I think it was the most, the most of the most. immediately when I finished reading it

but when I finished reading the first act, I was like, I want to do this play

So it was just that easy. My wife made me. Best dancer

I mean, to piggyback on what Donald said, for me, it was a no-brainer

I mean, the people that are involved with it, but I got involved, actually

Rory McGregor, who's the assistant director on this production, We worked together on Lehmie Trilogy in London

So I was working on that when he got the job to work on this. And I would tease him in rehearsals over there

I would come in with little bits of monologues from the play just to say like, you know

hey, give me, you know, so I just wanted to be part. I've always loved the script

But, you know, when I heard who was in it, it was involved, I wanted to be a part of it

And then when I got added to it, what was a cherry on top was after I agreed that on my

was added to the show, so that just made it even better. But it's just, you know, it's a perfect, it's living the dream

It a great play great director great guys amazing theater And I have one last thing is that the first show ever did did in New York was Jeffrey Richards was the producer on it my first time coming

so I love that I'm coming back to Broadway and doing another one of his shows

Well, every time Jeffrey Richards asked me to go to work for him, I do

And it's worked out really, really well. This is my seventh show with Jeffrey

And when he calls again, I'll be available. It just, it always works out

There's a, there's, I don't exactly know what he does for a living

There is something about, about this attachment we seem to have formed

And it's, I always have a good time. And, hey, it's my hometown

I'm from Chicago. I've always wanted to do this play. I saw the movie first, and I've never

seen a live production of it. But Mamet played piano at the theater where I learned improv

You know, so we always talked about Mamet, you know, when we were young and learning because he was

famous already. And it just fits with the guys that I dad hung out with and the kind of the people, the guys I knew when I was a kid, the men that I knew and I was

I wanted to, I don't know, it was just great to join that group, that group of assholes

All right I you know I came into this business you know stand up or whatever you know watched a lot of sports so I didn really have any aspirations to work on Broadway And then one day I was dating somebody they took me to see True West and had Philip Seymour husband and John C Riley and I saw how amazing it was

and I just started taking acting classes and I saw the whole power

and how amazing it was and I just meant, you know, you had that dumb idea of like

I want to do that, like how do you do that? You know? So it was something that I wanted to do

when it just, and then like 25 years went by and I just thought, well, I guess that's not going to happen

boohoo, I just get to tell jokes for a living. So I just didn't think it was going to be something

was going to happen. And the second I gave up on it, you know

all of a sudden I get a call. You want to do it? I'm like, yeah, 100%. And it was like I just felt like it was the perfect play

if I was going to do some for the first time because I don't find how these guys talk shocking

I find it like, it sounds like how I grew up. So soothing

I would say soothing, but it's just like, I know that guy. I know this guy, I know that guy

And then I also feel the story was, you know, if they asked me to Annie, I would have done it

Yeah, I mean, I've always been an actor, and I think I always sort of had it in my head

that, you know, a real actor does theater. And, I mean, whether that's true

I'm sure someone could argue with me, but that was always my idea, like, oh, you're in equity, and you, you know

And I just joined equity, like a few years ago and now I'm on Broadway

I mean, the idea of being on Broadway was just even too big

of a, to even imagine that that might happen. Just do theater, just make sure you go and do theater

So yeah, when you say like, what made me say yes? I mean, how could I, how could I say now