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Has anyone out there seen a stage version of The Lion in Winter? The original movie with O'Toole and Hepburn is one of my favorite films of all time - definitely in the top 5! I'm just curious what seeing it on stage is like.  Thanks!

In reply to #1: I haven't seen a stage version, but I did try to watch the remake with Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close--inferior! How could anyone possibly be as good as Katherine Hepburn at saying the line, "There'll be pork in the treetops come morning"? And my very favorite line is right after Eleanor has taunted Henry about having slept with his father, and Henry curses and storms out. Eleanor/Katherine just shakes her head and says, "Well, every family has its bad days." And to cast Anthony Hopkins as Richard. With a nickname like Lionheart, you'd expect the actor to look like a Greek god, but short and pudgy Anthony Hopkins??? Wonderful!

Ah, yes...there are some of the best lines ever written in that play...and you're absolutely right - Hepburn beat Glenn Close by a mile!  I like Glenn Close just fine in other things, but not something that was made so outstandingly marvelous like The Lion in Winter with Katherine Hepburn! :)

"You know something, Henry...I don't much like our children."  Just deadpan...hysterical! :)

Thanks for the reply!