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Posted by:	LegitOnce 03:30 am EDT 08/10/14
In reply to:	re: Of course not... - AlanScott 10:01 pm EDT 08/09/14

You're right, I'm sure: I don't have the Brown bio handy, and I think I was confused because the Lunts played the show first on tour in the UK, then took it to the US before returning to London. I misremembered this more simply as UK/London followed by Broadway. The Brown book does mention, I'm sure, that Lunt was not well during the New York run. It's possible (though it's just a guess) that he was trying to soft-pedal his illness in the Funke interview by calling it "exhaustion." Not having a document of the Lunts in The Visit is a real heartbreaker. The MGM film of The Guardsman demonstrates how crisp and modern they were in playing high comedy, and the video of The Great Sebastians gives some indication of their star quality and charm. But they were great emotional actors too, and there's little sense of that in this light material.

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