In his revised script for "Cuckoo," Mr. Laurents makes it clear that Leona is no virgin.
Hytner handed Russell Beale and Hatley his revised script of the play.
The London version was well received; the revised script became the official version and is the one being revived.
It was also delayed to give Spielberg, who is an executive producer, enough time to give notes on the revised script, according to Variety.
Ms. Margolin agreed to revise the play, but when Theater J's artistic director, Ari Roth, volunteered to show the revised script to Mr. Wiesel's foundation, she backed out of the production.
The Japanese actor ignored requests to revert to the revised script for fear of losing face, while Marvin, a veteran of the Pacific, regressed to an earlier, more psychotic version of himself.
Perhaps the last few years – capped by his recent run-in with Sony over his revised script for Moneyball, a baseball movie starring Brad Pitt, that saw him elbowed off the project – have left him punch-drunk.
An ambitious but ultimately dreary 1998 revival at the National Theater in London, with a revised script by Ms. Allen, which starred the great Fiona Shaw in a performance that toned down the surface glamour, showed just how much this play needed such histrionic flash and sparkle.
Their repeatedly revised script toggled between planets and time periods, kicking off with Carter's mysterious death on Earth, in 1881, and then shifting back to 1868, when he was zoomed to Mars after he shot an interloping Thern and touched the alien's transport medallion.
La Jolla Playhouse, which produced the world premiere of "Little Miss Sunshine" last spring, held a private reading this month of a revised script for the musical, which had drawn mixed reviews in California, according to one of the executives, who is not involved with the show.
