Back in September 2024, in a review of Waiting For Godot at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket (starring Lucian Msamati and Ben Whishaw), I wrote:
“If Jamie Lloyd staged a production of Waiting For Godot, I imagine there would be two characters waiting at a bus stop. Video screens would show busses with no numbers, or destinations, pulling up and then leaving, whilst the characters never attempt to board. Two homeless men would walk past and stop for a chat. At the end, the two men would decide to walk home and come back tomorrow to wait for the bus.”
It has now been announced, that Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot is headed to Broadway in September 2025 starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter at the Hudson Theatre – produced and directed by none other than Jamie Lloyd.
The Broadway show is set to star William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan, aka Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter – from the cult 1980’s film series ‘Bill & Ted’. The original film Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989), was followed by its sequel Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) and just five years ago, completing the trilogy came Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020).
Could I have predicted this? Did I find a magical telephone box that propelled me into the future, to see what was due to come? Probably not, but you never know!
