| re: National Theatre Follies live at cinemas November 16th | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:49 pm EDT 07/08/17 | |
| In reply to: re: National Theatre Follies live at cinemas November 16th - Snowysdad 12:06 am EDT 07/08/17 | |
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| On July 1, you posted this in a thread about 1776: "I was in the original Broadway Cast and Howard DaSilva behaved reasonably well during our run." On June 17, you posted this in a thread on The Boys in the Band: "I arrived in NYC right out of high school early June 1969. I knew I was gay. Did three auditions my first week there and was cast in 2 things. Did a quick summer stock of Bye Bye Birdie then out to Minneapolis for musicals in repertory at Guthrie." 1776 opened on Broadway in March 1969 (after opening first in New Haven in February, and then moving to D.C.). How could you have been in the original cast if you didn't arrive in New York until after it opened, and you said that your first jobs were a quick summer stock of Bye Bye Birdie and then you went to the Guthrie for musicals in rep? The Guthrie site lists five productions in 1969: Julius Caesar, The Beauty Part, The Homecoming, Mourning Becomes Electra, and Uncle Vanya. And if you arrived in NYC right out of high school in June 1969, you must have been 18 or so. Did Hal Prince cast you as Robert in Company when you were 20 or 21? The show closed on January 1, 1972. As far as I know, five actors played the role during the Broadway run (this includes standbys and understudies): Dean Jones, Larry Kert, John Cunningham, Kenneth Cory, and Gary Krawford. The youngest was Cory, who was born July 21, 1941 (if his online date of birth is to be trusted), making him just a few months older than Krawford (born March 23, 1941, again if his online date of birth is correct). On July 3, you posted this in the thread about "Make Our Garden Grow" that moved, naturally enough, into a more general discussion of Candide: "BTW, part of this comes from appearing in the first NYC revival (1970) of the original version, but with much music restored and mostly conducted by Leonard Bernstein." I replied to your post about this, but you did not respond to my reply. There was no 1970 production. I asked if perhaps you had been in the November 1968 New York Philharmonic concert in honor of Bernstein's 50th birthday, which was conducted by Maurice Peress. It did restore a good deal of cut music, along with music that was written for later productions of the piece but that had not been heard before in New York. But if you arrived in New York in June 1969, you can't have been in that. What Candide were you in? I know that you're the West Coast of Florida reviewer for this site, and that you go as William S. Oser in your job as reviewer. Did you perform under a different name? I think you also said here a year or two ago that you were in the original production of The Rothschilds, perhaps as a replacement. Anyway, I can't find anyone with all the credits you've claimed. Maybe I'm missing someone. |
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