Oct 14, 2026 · 55 min · 15 segments
Part two of Jonny’s chat with actor/director Joe Mantello starts with a discussion of the response to their production of Death of a Salesman, the staging details that bothered some people, the…
Joe MantelloGuest
Jonathan CakeHost
I mean, to this point, and we have, what do we have, a couple of months to go, unanimously, in a way that I've never experienced before, the biggest sort of, um, kind of sense of something moving from being a big fat hit to being an event-
... that I've ever had before in my life was that Medea, which, which went gangbusters here in New York.
But even then, there were people who were like, "Well, this, this and this." At this point, I would slightly welcome somebody coming backstage and going-
The closest I had was, uh, this might make you cross, so now I'm slightly regretting even starting.
this is, this is proving your, you know, the steak wasn't very well cooked point.
Uh, he's quite an eminent poet, and he said, "You know, I wonder what it would've been like, I wonder what it would've been like," he said, "if, um, i- i- if it was done without everybody shouting."
[laughs] And even then, 'cause we'd had quite a long preview period, there was something vaguely thrilling in hearing somebody say-
I actually think he liked it very much, and I, I think it is impossible to do this play without raising your voice.
Uh, I don't know, somehow I gave him a sort of pass, just simply [laughs] because he, he seemed so all alone-
I mean, to this point, and we have, what do we have, a couple of months to go, unanimously, in a way that I've never experienced before, the biggest sort of, um, kind of sense of something moving from being a big fat hit to being an event-
... that I've ever had before in my life was that Medea, which, which went gangbusters here in New York.
But even then, there were people who were like, "Well, this, this and this." At this point, I would slightly welcome somebody coming backstage and going-
The closest I had was, uh, this might make you cross, so now I'm slightly regretting even starting.
this is, this is proving your, you know, the steak wasn't very well cooked point.
Uh, he's quite an eminent poet, and he said, "You know, I wonder what it would've been like, I wonder what it would've been like," he said, "if, um, i- i- if it was done without everybody shouting."
[laughs] And even then, 'cause we'd had quite a long preview period, there was something vaguely thrilling in hearing somebody say-
I actually think he liked it very much, and I, I think it is impossible to do this play without raising your voice.
Uh, I don't know, somehow I gave him a sort of pass, just simply [laughs] because he, he seemed so all alone-
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