So we have to wait for another year! Anyway, I think this is my baseball play. Everyone was present including Jesse Williams and Patrick so it doesnt look like anyone has had to drop out for scheduling conflicts. "But when all is said and done, Kippy? Support For Indiana Public Media Comes From. Any ambivalence in how the fans feel about the opening of baseball to gays is mild and contained: one character mentions that Lemming's commercials have been shifted to late-night television, but that is a much more measured reaction than pulling them from the airwaves completely. The fact that Lemming is, in fact, a superstar earns him more freedom from his fans than a lesser player would enjoy. Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg. He may be a victim of circumstances, but he is so lacking in the attributes that make Lemming admirable that his collapse is not even a moral issue. That's baseball's way, and you see it in every game. 78, No. Oh, yeah, he was witty. Harriet Harper, Radon's Deadly Daughters William J. Makofske Richard Greenberg's Tony Award-winning play, which tackles baseball and homophobia, is set to be adapted as a limited television series with Jesse in the leading role, Deadline reports. Mason's monologue about democracy being the representation of hope in a democratic society is classic and wonderful. When he first introduces Shane Mungitt to the audience, Kippy, as narrator, points out what a good pitcher Shane is, though lacking intelligence, and then notes that "he didn't seem to like the game." In their first scene together, Darren and Davey joke with each other good-naturedly about their differences while maintaining their basic affection. Well, at any rate, the mix of homosexuality and baseball in a play is not old hat. Davey comes into the Empires' clubhouse the night that Shane Mungitt returns from his suspension, flouting the rule that prohibits members of the opposing team from entering a team's quarters. Nothing is said of riots outside of stadiums, of increased violence against gays, or plummeting ticket sales, all of which conceivably might happen under such circumstances. ". Greenberg establishes Lemming's popularity very early in the play, at the same time that he acknowledges the clear contrast between the way homosexuals have been excluded from professional sports and the ways that racial minorities have gained acceptance. Bazaar, Kansas Take Me Out. Richard Greenberg's Tony Award-winning play, which tackles baseball and homophobia, is set to be adapted as a limited television series with Jesse in the leading role, Deadline reports. In this, he achieves a direct line to the audience and a sense of intimacy. I find that astonishing. Also wish I had read it in one afternoon. It holds as true in the world of this play as it does in real life: there may be a few fans here and there who might hold back from supporting a player of a certain race, but expressing such a view would certainly mark one as an oddity among true sports fans. Not only because of the male nudity (which I’m so excited about) but because it is a really funny play and at the same time still so relevant given that no baseball player has come out yet! Found insideWith a blend of humor and humanity, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Tracy Letts demonstrates the ultimate midlife crisis: the bewildering search for self-discovery once you’ve already grown up. Imagine having to take the [Number] 7 train to the ballpark, looking like you're [riding through] Beirut next to some kid with purple hair next to some queer with AIDS right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. 374, No. Share via email. Kippy says that he would like Darren and whoever he is dating to come to the house for dinner with his wife and three kids, but Darren has no particular love interest at the moment. While the play's narrative revolves around the various reactions of his fellow Empires in pinstripes (think New York Yankees), the emotional heart of the play lies elsewhere. But there was something appealing in him—just the courage to wear that necklace. Dr. Richard Greenberg attended medical school at UC Davis School of Medicine, in Northern California. "Well, 'cause if you have some hope of reëntering decent society, they make ya," he says. His autobiography. A third sense of the phrase is that it represents the opposite of what athletes usually request of their coaches. Take Me Out is a play by Richard Greenberg and is the story of the baseball team the New York Empires, but specifically about the coming out of star player Darren Lemming.. At Dobama, Lemming was very ably played by local actor Michael May. What happened was, I became a fan and instantly couldn't focus on anything else. Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out (which is currently having its U.S. premiere at New York's Public Theater) is the first major play to grapple with homosexuality and its uneasy overlap in the world of professional baseball. Set design by Scott Pask. Against all these negatives, Greenberg counterposes the blessing of connection—between Lemming and his timid, closeted accountant, Mason Marzac (the scene-stealing Denis O'Hare), who is unexpectedly liberated by Lemming's revelations. Fans of baseball or beefcake -- or fans of baseball and beefcake -- will find plenty to savor at "Take Me Out," Richard Greenberg's new play about a cocky Major League star who causes a major . Of course, it really comes alive on the stage and his performance (as well as the other actors) was magnificent. Still well worth reading! He gives Mason one of his World Series rings to wear. The narrator, that's part of it, sure, as is the crisis of masculinity, of course. (2002) What initially appears to be a light comedy about a top baseball player announcing that he is gay soon turns into something far more. (Blessing's antihero, the bigoted Ty Cobb, is shown in Blessing's imagination to be haunted by Oscar Charleston, who played in the Negro Leagues and was known as the "black Cobb.") Share to Reddit. Toddy is an illiterate man, given to pronouncing words incorrectly, such as saying "sanc-chewy" for "sanctuary" and "rackled" for "racked." After the game, Darren meets him and explains that he is thinking of retiring from baseball the very next day. He ends up in prison. THE STORY: It is the Catskills, in the summer of 1960. Take Me Out is a full-length drama by Richard Greenberg.The play examines America's obsession with baseball in an unusual context. Fingers crossed for the former! So the experience of fan-dom was a new one, along with baseball. [Red Sox pitcher from the 1970s] Bill "Spaceman" Lee …. Being new to the game, Mason is enthusiastic about the team's win and only somewhat aware of the emotional trauma that the team has suffered. Davey Battle, who is Darren's best friend before the announcement, rejects him with hostility upon finding out he is gay: the religious Davey cannot reconcile Darren's sexuality with his own views on the subject. Whether at Ebbets Field or Camden Yards, decade after decade proved that all men were not always created equal, even in that most pastoral of settings. He died of AIDS in 1995. In the following essay, he examines why Darren Lemming remains a sympathetic character, despite his behavior in the play. Lol, better late than never I guess. Take Me Out. "I liked you before—loved you in a manly sort of way," Kippy tells him. You just tryin' to scrub away the skin?" Shane overhears the end of the conversation, and his first pitch to Davey hits him in the head and kills him. Attention shifts to Mason taking a late-night phone call from Darren, who is sad and angry about the events. And now if there is a Yankee game I can possibly see, it's mandatory. Baseball players have long been known for their close sense of camaraderie. https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/take-me-out, "Take Me Out By 2006, he had produced twenty-eight plays, almost always supported by critical raves. Therefore, be sure to refer to those guidelines when editing your bibliography or works cited list. Darren Lemming is the star player who has led his team to win two Worlds Series in a row. Miller, Stuart, "Take Me Out: A Play Worth Extra Bases," in Sporting News, March 10, 2003, p. 9. Glenn Burke was an African American center fielder, credited with being the player to invent the high five. He warns Darren that his importance to the team as a player will not save him from God's punishment, citing such examples as Roberto Clemente and Thurman Munson, who died in separate plane crashes, and Lou Gehrig, who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. While a soliloquy gives private thoughts and emotions, Mason's speech sounds more like a philosophy lecture. "What do we do with our stray homosexual impulses? Mason is, by his own admission, quite successful as an investor: "I have taken some clients with fairly modest portfolios and made them rather wealthy," he says after Darren suspects that he has been assigned to him only because he is gay. Recently saw this play for the second time on stage so took the opportunity to finally read it. It probably helped that it was the end of the season and Take Me Out was one of the last plays they were producing for the 2019-2020 season. The NFL also produced Roy Simmons, who played offensive guard for the Giants and Redskins from 1979 to 1983 and then revealed his orientation on the Phil Donahue talk show in 1992, and Esera Tuaolo, an offensive lineman who announced that he was gay and that he and his partner had two adopted children, but kept his private life a secret until 2002—three years after he left football. I audibly gasped at what happened and frantically turned to my father and then my aunt because I couldn't believe it. And let me tell you, this took a dramatic turn, which you are clued in on at the beginning, but not what I expected. He is proud and arrogant to such an extent that he preys on the weak-minded Mungitt's fear of male intimacy, and he turns against fans and teammates who want to sympathize with him. Buy Tickets . Take Me Out Richard Greenberg, Manners And Monuments Of Prehistoric Peoples Jean François Albert Du Pouget Nadaillac, Washington Square (Wordsworth Classics) Henry James, The Perfect Affair (The Shady Sisters Trilogy) Lutishia Lovely When Mason tries to thank him on behalf of the gay community for being open about his sexuality, Darren counters that he does not feel like he is part of any community. It's a tragedy; I love it. Be the first to ask a question about Take Me Out. Characters When he returns to his conversation with Mason, Mason asks Darren if Shane is going to be arrested. Anderson interviewed gay athletes at all levels of team play, from high school sports to professional teams, in order to document the prevailing attitudes toward homosexuality and how it fits with or clashes with the macho culture of competition. Speaking of the Mets, this was the year that Mike Piazza had to "come out" and say, "Sorry, I'm not gay." The vocabulary styles that writer require to explain it is easy to understand. A relief pitcher, Shane Mungitt, was brought up from the minor leagues. Who could you be thinking of? ", Elysa Gardner, the reviewer for USA Today, touches on the reservations that most reviewers had when praising the play. Of course, like most other persons who have successfully broken down invisible social barriers, Greenberg's fictional center fielder Darren Lemming is an extremely talented player, whose dominance of the game is widely accepted. May is a fairly big-read strong-African-American man and my mind was invariably drawn to Barry Bonds as a model for the star-power incumbent in the . Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Darren doesn't believe his admission can hurt him because the fans will still come out, rosy-eyed and rooting to the end. Kaufman, David, "Playing the Field," in Nation, July 7, 2003, p. 30. I went out and bought histories, and that Ken Burns documentary sits on my TV like a shrine, an altar. They might be reminded of it, but it isn't the focus. Actually, speaking of the crisis of masculinity and baseball: You have to admire [Texas Ranger] Rafael Palmeiro doing those Viagra commercials. Take Me Out|Richard Greenberg time to enjoy life at college, etc. For a brief while in 2003, three of his plays were running on Broadway at once: Take Me Out, The Violet Hour, and a revival of 1988's Eastern Standard. THE STORY: Darren Lemming, the star center fielder of the world champion New York Empires, is young, rich, famous, talented, handsome and so convinced of his popularity that when he casually announces he's gay, he assumes the news will be ... Baseball—perennial, passed on to our kids and prone to extra innings—tends to play out as the theatre of American renewal. To enhance the feel and mood there is also transitional notes to emphasize focal point and sounds. After the last game, Kippy talks with Darren, expressing his hope that they might someday be friends again. The two friends discuss their lives: Davey is a religious man with a wife and three kids, and Darren is mysterious and sarcastic, unwilling to talk about love. . We tamp them down, we frustrate them," Kippy says, trying in vain to be clubhouse psychologist to this crew of inarticulate and disgruntled players. Take Me Out. Share to Twitter. Donmar Warehouse. Richard Greenberg Donmar Warehouse (2002) Share: What initially appears to be a light comedy about a top baseball player announcing that he is gay soon turns into something far more. Finally, in a moment that plays only partly as a joke, Lemming lunges at Mungitt and mortifies him with a kiss. Among Greer's assertions were the claims that numbers don't matter in baseball; that no player would be called up from the minors to help a defending team win a championship; and that Mr. Greenberg was misguided in depicting the team's catcher—who is, after all, the anchor of the game—as a malaprop-prone ignoramus with as much brainpower as a radish. Before he leaves, Mason shows up. ( Log Out / This was particularly interesting and somewhat satisfied my craving to see men naked on stage again: Broadway theaters closed until June 2021. The player in question, the aptly named Darren Lemming (Daniel Sunjata), is a center fielder for the champion New York Empires. Darren Lemming is not at all humble. Reviews from Goodreads. Darren ends the meeting promising not to retire the next day. Alongside the game's heroic tales there have been seamy stories of labor strife, corruption, gambling, racial prejudice and, now, drug use. Greenberg goes further than just providing a happy ending. I admire Derek Jeter for doing those peanut butter commercials, actually. His sense of grandiosity is more offended than his sense of justice. I have read online in forums and Twitter that many folks seem to think fall will be the earliest Broadway comes back. A few years before Take Me Out was produced, John Rocker, a relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, became famous around the world for controversial comments similar to those made by Shane Mungitt in the play. Here are observations from two decades of residence on a three-block stretch of New York City and musings from his brilliant, if not a little unusual, mind. It's baseball, so of course I like it. In the following review, Take Me Out is described as a microcosm of the nation, "plagued" with the same "social issues" experienced during the twentieth century. He ends up going to Shane, grabbing him, and kissing him, pretending that he and Shane are lovers, though Shane shouts at him throughout the experience. After telling them his story, Shane laughs maniacally. When he makes the matter-of-fact announcement . Refresh and try again. In the end, though, the review characterizes the play as "a winner. Lemming is established as being among the best of the best from the script's first page on. Sound design by Janet Kalas. In an interview with Sports Illustrated published in 2000, Rocker, who had been harassed by New York fans during the 1999 playoffs against the Mets, said that he would never be able to play in New York: It's the most hectic, nerve-racking city. By Richard Greenberg. Woog, Daniel, Jocks: True Stories of America's Gay Athletes, Alyson Publications, 1998. TAKE ME OUT * Written by Richard Greenberg * Directed by Joe Mantello * Starring Daniel Sunjata and Denis O'Hare * Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York City, through October 27. Gardner, Elysa, "Despite a Few Bad Hops: Take Me Out Looks like a Hit," in USA Today, March 4, 2003, "Life" section, p. 03d. Richard Greenberg's "Take Me Out" Map and Directions. Found insideTHE STORY: Focusing on the self-centered concerns of a rather inbred group of Manhattan yuppies, the action of the play deals with the ultimately hilarious misunderstandings which arise when one of their number, a frustrated, somewhat ... Baseball in a America also has all this meaning and one of the characters keeps talking about it. Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, or I'm seeing something that isn't there, but I really enjoyed this all the same. This has less to do with players, owners, sportswriters and, for that matter, playwrights-who-are-fans "being in denial" than it does with the ontology of the game: The panglossian spirit cannot be extracted from baseball's very essence (as the quote from Baseball Magazine attests). Oh, that's easy. He lives in New York City. After a London run, the production moved to Broadway in the spring of 2003 and swept all of the major awards, including winning the Tony Award for Best Play. So much to learn, so much to memorize. Tickets $37-$75. The story starts out with a player who has everything he could want in his professional career but lacks the ability to love freely, so it is reasonable to feel that the play has reached its fulfillment once he finds someone to love. The athlete in question, one Darren Lemming, has the additional distinction of being half black and half white. Mason is a seriously controlled and hemmed-in personality, but his growing adoration for the game of baseball loosens his tether and releases the pixie inside. After Darren surprises his teammates by publicly announcing that he is gay, and Shane Mungitt publicly insults him because of it, Skipper writes him a formal letter, expressing both his support and also his frustration. Jason Chenier, a new player, sees Darren's announcement about his sexual orientation as a weakness that brings Darren, the team's star player, down closer to his level: while he was previously too intimidated to approach Darren, after the announcement he adapts a somewhat patronizing attitude toward him, citing references to past achievements by homosexuals that appear to be aimed at making Darren feel good about himself. Parking: Public parking is available in the Lemon Street Parking Structure for a fee of $3.00 per day. This year we'll also see The Violet Hour (opening Nov. 3 at California's South Coast Repertory), and last year we had both Everett Beekin and The Dazzle. Lou Gehrig, dubbed the "Iron Man" of baseball, is best known for his record for most consecutive games…, https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/take-me-out. Mason can look at baseball as a theorist, as an outsider, speculating on the abstractions of players' records or the social significance of the pointless trot around the base when a ball has been hit out of the park. They continue to consider Lemming a hero and will not accept a verbal assault against him. Of course! The idea of directly giving audiences information that they need, rather than working the information into the situation that the characters are dramatizing, is hardly a new one. Davey tells Darren that he believes, regardless of what Darren thinks about himself, that he is a good man at heart who will feel better about himself once he tries leading an open and honest life. Basics. In this essay, Morgan examines what the game has to say about the American character. [Steven Drukman:] You know why I'm writing this piece, don't you? The play's mischievous title—at once a paean and a plea—hints at Greenberg's equally mischievous ambition: to marry "the old ballgame" with what you could call "the new ballgame": gay politics. Not since Mary Martin had to wash that man right out of her hair had the act of lathering up seemed so novel a theatrical idea. Any World Series predictions? No mention yet of any recasting, fingers crossed all are able to return. At the same time, Shane is taking a pre-game shower, and Darren joins him. I either need to read more often, or read more quickly!). Hagerty, Bill, Review of Take Me Out, in Hollywood Reporter, Vol. Their conversations together are a mystery to the other team members. And as I say in my play Three Days of Rain, "Boston isn't a city, Boston is a parish.". (background) in Take Me Out. The first player in any team sport to come out about his sexual orientation was Dave Kopay, an NFL running back who was retired for several years before going public. "Take Me Out "You dumb cracker f——." Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Question for those who had tickets for shows prior to the 12th – were you automatically refunded or did you have to reach out to the ticket vendor to get your money back? His secret is even more poignant because the batter who is killed, Davey Battle, is Darren's best friend off of the team, and Kippy shows a little jealousy because of it. Skipper, in a formal letter, expresses his wholehearted support for Darren as a gay man, but he also expresses his disappointment that Darren has openly brought homosexuality to baseball. There's this thing about plays nowadays- they have to have all this "meaning." Professional football and baseball player Oh, God, you're not from some place like Boston, are you? Danziger is not at all equivocal about his feelings for Lemming: he expresses his great regard for him as a player and as a man. Here, in the impish performance of Denis O'Hare, the playwright finds his mouthpiece. The end result is an intrguing, compelling, and often funny look at how baseball and in a larger sense, America, handled, is handling, or will handle her . If there's anything that confounds the British more than American optimism, it's baseball, which brings together on one bright pastoral greensward those twin nineteenth-century American deliriums: industrialization and individualism. * * dramatists play service, inc. established by members of the, dramatists guild (of the authors league of america forthe handling of the acting rights of members' plays and 'the encouragement of the american theatre 440 pack avenue sout, new yor, ny 10016 www.dramatists.com take me out by richard greenberg * dramatists play service inc. First published to tie-in with the Royal Court Theatre's production in April 2003, with a cast including Alexander Delamere, Victoria Gay, Fiona Glascott and Rosamund Pike, this is the newly revised version of award-winning Terry Johnson's ... "In Everett Beekin, the tensions between the safety of family and the yearning for a larger life are explored through the relationships of two sets of Jewish sisters. We're thrifty. 19, July 19, 2002, p. 30. "I am a secret." And a machine of indeterminate function and origin comes into the office and starts picking and changing everything. The anticipation is killing me! Still, despite these admirable efforts from socially conscious playwrights, the phrase "baseball play" usually conjures but one: Damn Yankees, Adler and Ross's 1955 Goethe-meets-Doubleday musical that dressed the Faust legend in cleats and made the Washington Senators sing "you gotta have heart.". Found inside... TAKE ME OUT by Richard Greenberg | seriocomic/late 20s/20s-30s 431 TAKE ME OUT by Richard Greenberg | seriocomic/late 20s/early 30s 435 TIME OUT by Erik ... Encyclopedia.com. ", More recently, in 2000, Lee Blessing's Cobb (first staged by New York's Melting Pot Theatre Company) rose above the mere baseball bio-play by placing a decidedly politically incorrect athlete in proper cultural context. Greenberg intoxicates us with his words in the same way he's intoxicated by the game. It won the Tony . Take Me Out is about a baseball colossus, a young African-American built to mythic size by both his extraordinary exploits on the field and his extraordinarily cheerful interracial upbringing: "Even in baseball—one of the few realms of American life in which people of color are routinely adulated by people of pallor—he was something special: a black man who had obviously never suffered," the white shortstop, Kippy Sunderstrom (the appealing Neal Huff), explains. Battle has all of the attributes that should make him sympathetic, but in the play's climax, he turns out to be missing what might be the most important element of all: empathy for Darren Lemming. Since coming to the team, he has been too shy to talk to the star player, Darren Lemming. I audibly gasped at what happened and frantically turned to my father and then my aunt because I couldn't believe it. Now I feel like I'm spending a lot of time cramming. Mason narrates his thrill with being at the game, now that he has been following it and can appreciate baseball's subtleties. Marzac, in his Empires baseball cap and his giant "We're No. Hope "springs" eternal (even for Cubs fans) in spring training, and "falls" for most by the end of October. At almost every baseball stadium throughout the country, each game has a seventh-inning stretch, when fans are invited to rise to their feet, stretch their limbs, and sing, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." 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