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| Posted by: | JayBee 08:29 am EDT 08/15/14 |
| In reply to: | Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” - jesse21 07:09 am EDT 08/15/14 |
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| Reidel writes; "Bacall earned her sea legs in a couple of plays — 1959’s “Goodbye, Charlie,” and “Cactus Flower” in 1965 — and married Jason Robards while waiting for a hit. It came, in 1970, in the form of 'Applause'." No. it came in 1965 with a comedy called "Cactus Flower" - a huge David Merrick hit that played three plus years. | |
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| re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” | |
| Posted by: | enoch10 12:28 pm EDT 08/15/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” - JayBee 08:29 am EDT 08/15/14 |
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| >> Reidel writes; "Bacall earned her sea legs in a couple of plays — 1959’s “Goodbye, Charlie,” and “Cactus Flower” in 1965 — and married Jason Robards while waiting for a hit. It came, in 1970, in the form of 'Applause'." No. it came in 1965 with a comedy called "Cactus Flower" - a huge David Merrick hit that played three plus years. umm... >> Reidel writes; "Bacall earned her sea legs in a couple of plays —1959’s “Goodbye, Charlie, and “Cactus Flower” in 1965 — and married Jason Robards while waiting for a hit. It came, in 1970, in the form of 'Applause'." | |
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| re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” | |
| Posted by: | Michael_Portantiere 12:36 pm EDT 08/15/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” - enoch10 12:28 pm EDT 08/15/14 |
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| You missed the point, enoch10. The way Riedel wrote this section of the article, it implies that CACTUS FLOWER was not a hit. See? | |
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| re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” | |
| Posted by: | JayBee 01:28 pm EDT 08/15/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” - Michael_Portantiere 12:36 pm EDT 08/15/14 |
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| Thank you, Michael. | |
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| re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” | |
| Posted by: | Michael_Portantiere 02:06 pm EDT 08/15/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” - JayBee 01:28 pm EDT 08/15/14 |
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| You're welcome. There seem to be a lot of reading comprehension problems around here lately :-) | |
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| re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” | |
| Posted by: | BroadwayTonyJ 06:48 pm EDT 08/16/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” - Michael_Portantiere 02:06 pm EDT 08/15/14 |
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| Riedel's punctuation is sloppy -- the comma after "Charlie" is unnecessary. However, since Bacall married Robards in 1961, Riedel clearly is implying that Cactus Flower was not a hit. | |
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| re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” | |
| Posted by: | Thom915 (Thom915@aol.com) 07:28 pm EDT 08/16/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” - BroadwayTonyJ 06:48 pm EDT 08/16/14 |
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| Although the Oxford comma is seldom used in newspaper writing, it is purely acceptable. Why is Riedel criticized for absolutely everything? | |
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| re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” | |
| Posted by: | BroadwayTonyJ 08:03 pm EDT 08/16/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” - Thom915 07:28 pm EDT 08/16/14 |
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| Cactus Flower was the biggest stage hit of Bacall's career -- it ran for 1234 performances -- a far greater hit than Applause. I only mentioned the punctuation error because it obscures the exact meaning of his statement (as can be seen by the different interpretaions given above by various posters). | |
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| What about "Waiting in the Wings?" | |
| Posted by: | NJGUY 11:21 am EDT 08/15/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” - JayBee 08:29 am EDT 08/15/14 |
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| The NY Post story ends in about 1984 and she lived another 30 years in Manhattan. The story is incomplete. If you are going to paint a character portrait of someone; then bring it up to date. Michael Reidel-enough said. | |
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| re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” | |
| Posted by: | lowwriter 09:44 am EDT 08/15/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” - JayBee 08:29 am EDT 08/15/14 |
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| Correct. Cactus Flower was a hit and Bacall was wonderful in it. Wish she had made the movie! | |
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| re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” | |
| Posted by: | JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 10:22 am EDT 08/15/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” - lowwriter 09:44 am EDT 08/15/14 |
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| I've always heard that Bacall was terrific in that play. Do you have any insite into why she wasn't cast in the film? I'd have thought that she'd have been the first choice, given that she was a huge movie star. | |
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| re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” | |
| Posted by: | TheOtherOne 11:17 am EDT 08/15/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” - JereNYC 10:22 am EDT 08/15/14 |
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| Ingrid Bergman was a bigger star, and was probably easier to deal with as well. | |
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| re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” | |
| Posted by: | Thom915 (Thom915@aol.com) 02:04 pm EDT 08/15/14 |
| In reply to: | re: Michael Riedel Today: Broadway star Lauren Bacall “as adored as she was formidable” - TheOtherOne 11:17 am EDT 08/15/14 |
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| I think Reidel gives the answer that Hollywood wanted nothing to do with Bacall really after Bogie's death and so they cast Ingrid Bergman who was at the time experiencing a bit of a comeback. My Bacall story: Running out of the alley behind the theater where Cactus Flower was playing I happened to run into someone who would today be called a bag lady, no make up kerchief over her head, carrying two oversize brown paper bags. I backed up to say excuse me and got a stare that froze my blood. It was only after carefully moving aroound the woman and exiting the alley that I realized who that was. Later that night I saw Lauren Bacall onstage transformed even in her earlier "Plain Jane" scenes from alley bag lady to that most glamourous of all creatures, a Broadway star fully in command of the audience and the play. Nobody could have played that part better and I was thrilled for my clumsy but very real encounter with the great Ms Bacall! | |
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