“Bill & Ted ”Stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Reuniting to Lead “Waiting for Godot” on Broadway
“We’re incredibly excited to be on stage together," the actors said in a statement about the production, set to open in fall 2025
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Keanu Reeves and Alex WinterKeanu Reeves and Alex Winter are going on their next excellent adventure: Broadway.
The actors and longtime friends — who first worked together 35 years ago in the 1989 sci-fi comedy Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure — are collaborating again, this time on a new revival of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
Directed by Jamie Lloyd, the production will open on Broadway in fall 2025 at a New York City theater to be announced. It will mark Reeves' Broadway debut.
“We’re incredibly excited to be on stage together and work with the great Jamie Lloyd in one of our favorite plays," Reeves, 59, and Winter, 59, said in a joint statement.
Reeves will play Estragon and Winter will be Vladimir in the acclaimed existential work, widely considered to be one of the best plays of all time.
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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in a photo snapped in July 2024 for 'Waiting for Godot'The original French text was written in 1948-1949 before making its world premiere in Paris in 1953. An English-language version came to London in 1955 and toured the United States that same year.
Its first Broadway production came to the John Golden Theatre in 1956 starring Bert Lahr and E. G. Marshall. The following year, it was revived at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in a production led by Earle Hyman and Mantan Moreland.
Other revivals have come in 2009, with Bill Irwin and Nathan Lane, and in 2013, with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen.
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Lloyd has become a sought-after interpreter of classics in recent years, typically with major A-listers in the cast. Stars the two-time Tony nominee has worked with include Jessica Chastain (A Doll's House), Tom Holland (Romeo & Juliet), James McAvoy (Cyrano de Bergerac), Emilia Clarke (The Seagull), as well as Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox (Betrayal).
This fall, he'll be represented on the boards by the Broadway transfer of the highly anticipated revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard starring Nicole Scherzinger. Having premiered in London, the production has already won awards — specifically, a total of seven Olivier Awards (the U.K. equivalent of the Tonys) including best musical revival and trophies for Lloyd and Scherzinger.
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As for Reeves and Winter, the two became lifelong friends since meeting on Bill & Ted. In 1991 and 2020, the pair reprised their roles as Bill Preston (Winter) and Ted Logan (Reeves) for a second and third installment of the cult-classic series.
“I think of him as my brother," Reeves said of Winters in a 2020 New York Times interview. "We enjoy each other's company and our thoughts and takes on the world. When we come together, it's like, 'What are you thinking?' 'I don't know, but this is kind of funny.' 'Yeah, that's kind of weird too.' "
The two instantly “clicked as friends," Winter told SYFY Wire that same year.
“That happens in life very rarely," he said. "We have a very similar perspective. Keanu is a very smart fella, and I enjoy his intellect and the way he looks at the world. And we laugh our butts off.”
For more information about Waiting for Godot, visit the show's official website.
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