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Why Bob Odenkirk Has Wanted to Do ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ for Decades
Why the Tony nominated actor has wanted to star in the David Mamet play for decades, and why he wasn't prepared for the "anxiety" of Broadway.
Bob Odenkirk(“Better Call Saul”) earned a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut in the hit revival of “ Glengarry Glen Ross.” But almost 30 years ago, if he’d gotten his way, he would have starred in a very different production of David Mamet’s celebrated play. “Back around ’97-’98, I wrote to David Mamet and asked him if I could do an all-comedy cast of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ with Fred Willard as Shelley Levine,” Odenkirk recalled on the new episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater podcast. Odenkirk got his start in sketch comedy, which is considerably looser and more improvisatory than the word-perfect clockwork of performing in a Mamet play.
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