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Posted by:	LegitOnce 10:50 am EDT 08/09/14
In reply to:	re: Of course not... - AlanScott 04:15 pm EDT 08/08/14

There's a story about the closing night of The Visit on Broadway. Lynn Fontanne is waiting in the wings before the curtain and she says, "I am so exhausted my lips are trembling. I honestly think I cannot go on." Now, Miss Fontanne was not one to dither. If she said she didn't think she could play, she must have been very near physical collapse. It might have been possible for the Lunts to have returned to the stage in a light, undemanding comedy for a limited run, but perhaps that kind of project didn't seem attractive to them at that point. Maybe given their great intelligence about the theater, they realized that such a show would be anticlimactic after The Visit and so they took their time looking for a new vehicle. By the time something as attractive as A Delicate Balance came along, Lunt's health had gone from bad to worse, and it could be that they just didn't want to risk it. (Meanwhile, they did several television projects, so they didn't immediately retire.)

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