Previews for the Broadway play IMPRESSIONISM, starring Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Michael T. Weiss, Marsha Mason and Aaron Lazar among others, start this Saturday, Feb 28th.  The play will have an 18-week limited run (due to other obligations for Jeremy Irons, who will go on to another project right after.)

As part of promoting the play, the actors did a Meet and Greet for the press, some of which you can see below: 

BroadwaySpace Feature: Meet the Cast of Impressionism

Meet the Cast of Broadway’s Impressionism: MICHAEL T. WEISS

Meet the Cast of Broadway’s Impressionism: JEREMY IRONS

Meet the Cast of Broadway’s Impressionism: JOAN ALLEN

Meet the Cast of Broadway’s Impressionism: MARGARITA LEVIEVA

Meet the Cast of Broadway’s Impressionism: ANDRE DE SHIELDS

Meet the Cast of Broadway’s Impressionism: AARON LAZAR

The play is being performed at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater on Broadway at 236 W 45th Street, New York.  Ticket information is available at Telecharge.com or by calling 800-432-7250.

The official website for the play is ImpressionismThePlay.com.

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Andrea Parker, star of THE PRETENDER, E.R., JAG and LESS THAN PERFECT, turns either 38 or 39 today depending on the source you use. (LOL) According to IMDb.com she was born in 1970, but according to Wikipedia, it’s 1969. Hmmmm.

Here’s hoping that she’ll take part in the new ‘digital’ version of THE PRETENDER when they finally get around to working on it again… It just wouldn’t be the same without ‘Miss Parker’ in more ways than one.

In the meantime, here’s hoping she has a very happy day and coming year!

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According to a story on Sci Fi Wire dated Dec 3rd (”Pretender To Pretend Again?“), Michael T. Weiss has been “breakfasting” with the creators of THE PRETENDER regarding reprising his role as Jarod, the genius who got away. Only this time around, the format and the platform of the project will be “digital”. (What that actually means is anyone’s guess: Straight to DVD? Directly downloadable on the Net? Jarod becomes a computer generated character either in a film or a video game voiced by Michael T. Weiss? Hmmmm.)

No word mentioned about any of the other original actors taking part in the new project (Andrea Parker, Patrick Bauchau, Jon Gries, James Denton, Richard Marcus, Harve Presnell). I can’t see a version of THE PRETENDER without most, if not all, of them, though. It’s the chemistry between the ensemble that really made the stories work for me.

Given that the series ended on a whimper when it was canceled, with the networks tossing us 2 small bones, I mean movies (PRETENDER 2001, PRETENDER: ISLAND OF THE HAUNTED) in the 8 years since the show went off the air , fans have been waiting a loooong time for some kind of resolution to the various story lines, including the new ones the movies brought up. It would be wonderful if this turns out to be true. (I’m not holding my breath, though – it HAS been 8 years of promising to give the fans some closure! and instead we got TIN MAN from Craig Van Sickle and Steven Long Mitchell not a bad mini series, just not THE PRETENDER!)

Time to start “agitating” again, eh?

In the meantime, time to go back and rewatch the series and the movies so I’ll be totally up to speed by the time Jarod reappears!

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