Aaron Sorkin on the new Broadway polish of A Few Good Men

So, what is the purpose of this new “tweaked” version of Some good men what does it actually look like? When we asked him the question, Sorkin was careful to assure everyone that “it’s Some good men.” Sorkin said: “I didn’t change the plot or the characters. Honestly, it’s just dialogue polish. Some of the more awkward jokes are less so, that sort of thing. ” joked Arden, “it’s located in a 19th century pastry shop.” (It doesn’t.)

It was Bradley Whitford, who played Daniel Kaffee on Broadway in 1990 and who returns today in the role of Nathan Jessep, who had the most to say at the conference. “I probably shouldn’t say this in public, but I had a nightmare where I woke up and the review said, ‘Quaker Theater Boy fails to convince as a Marine,'” he joked in his day. But Whitford had nothing but good things to say about Sorkin’s script and the “deep questions” it probes. “How are we going to make this work on this small, shrinking planet? Will it be through cooperation, through agreements, to follow the laws and use a legal system to arbitrate things we don’t agree on, or will it be domination and erasure?” he wondered. “I think you can’t kill to make your way to a better future. And the play deals with that in a non-condescending way.”

Some good men begins previews on October 8 and opens at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on October 29.