“Glengarry Glen Waterloo” presented by the C of A Players
Who doesn’t love them some David Mamet? No one, that’s whom.
This famous “Coffee is for closers” scene from “Glengarry Glen Ross” has been a hit at least three times I know of: when the film version first came out; when the film version came out on DVD, and when the scene made it onto YouTube.
Note that I didn’t say anything about the buzz when the play first premiered.
That’s because the scene doesn’t exist in the original play script — it was written specifically for the movie version, and Alec Freaking Baldwin absolutely nails it.
So, why not take those words, strip them of cultural, historical, and social context, screw with the time period and setting, and see if it holds up? Why not indeed…
Ladies and gentlemen, the Confederacy of Awesome Players present their homage to David Mamet’s most famous scene:
James Hyatt 