Patric also said, “I do have his ashes up there,” referring to the silver urn in a cupboard on the set. “I thought the old man should be up there with us. I feel in some ways, when I’m doing this, I’m in communion with him, opening up to that vulnerability, that wound.”
On Saturday's Weekend Edition, Scott Simon speaks with actors Brian Cox, Kiefer Sutherland and Jason Patric about their roles in the new Broadway production of That Championship Season. The play, about a coach hosting a reunion of the members of his championship high-school basketball team 20 years later, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for playwright Jason Miller — who was Jason Patric's father. (Miller died in 2001.) The production also stars Chris Noth, familiar to TV viewers of Sex And The City and The Good Wife, and Jim Gaffigan, who's best known as a comedian.The actors agree that while the text is about a coach and a team, it's more about fathers and sons — in fact, Patric grew up knowing his own father wrote it in an effort to achieve enough success to move his son away from a playground strewn with broken glass.
That Championship Season: Fathers And Sons Find A New Home On Broadway
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