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| re: I kind of wished Lithgow reprised his role | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 08:00 pm EST 12/14/17 | |
| In reply to: I kind of wished Lithgow reprised his role - dramedy 01:18 pm EST 12/14/17 | |
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| At 72, Lithgow is only three years older than Tony Randall was when he was the final actor to play Gallimard in the original production. And a couple of people I spoke to back then felt that Randall was the best of the four, although I always wondered what it was like for audiences to hear Randall, famous as an opera buff, talk (as Gallmard) about how he didn't like opera. My memory is that while Lithgow was playing it, there was a quote from him in Playbill about how extraordinarily exhausting he found the role. If my memory is correct on that, it's pretty unlikely that he'd have considered coming back to it almost 30 years later. I did think it was interesting, back when Randall was doing it, that a man so much older than Lithgow was playing the role that Lithgow had found so exhausting. |
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| re: I kind of wished Lithgow reprised his role | |
| Posted by: Thom915 10:18 am EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: I kind of wished Lithgow reprised his role - AlanScott 08:00 pm EST 12/14/17 | |
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| Tony Randall was indeed excellent in the role and it was a role he dearly wanted to do so much so that though he was well known for being rabidly anti tobacco he lit and puffed on a cigar at a moment in the show because the script called for it. That moment and only that moment took me out of the show for a split second not his talk of opera. | |
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| re: I kind of wished Lithgow reprised his role | |
| Posted by: MarjorieMae 10:14 am EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: I kind of wished Lithgow reprised his role - AlanScott 08:00 pm EST 12/14/17 | |
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| Randall was in exceptional physical condition for not only his age but for any age. I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't find the role as exhausting as Lithgow. | |
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