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| Frank Langella's aborted musical theater career? | |
| Posted by: portenopete 03:23 pm EST 12/22/17 | |
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| I've just been reading the account of Barbara Cook's memorial the other day and of Frank Langella's moving tribute to her. He referenced meeting her through Wally Harper in 1982 when he was preparing to do a musical, something that never ended up happening. This may be public knowledge but...what was it? The year 1982 makes me think it might have been NINE. Was in line to take over from Raul Julia? He'd have been an ideal Guido. Apologies if this is a matter of public record :). |
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| He also did one season of the MSG Christmas Carol. (NM) | |
| Posted by: Seth Christenfeld (tabula-rasa@verizon.net) 11:03 pm EST 12/22/17 | |
| In reply to: Frank Langella's aborted musical theater career? - portenopete 03:23 pm EST 12/22/17 | |
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| Seth, who didn't see it that year...did he? | |
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| re: Frank Langella's aborted musical theater career? | |
| Posted by: Thom915 07:50 pm EST 12/22/17 | |
| In reply to: Frank Langella's aborted musical theater career? - portenopete 03:23 pm EST 12/22/17 | |
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| At one point wasn't he announced as the male lead in one of those productions of "The visit" that never got off the ground. | |
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| re: Frank Langella's aborted musical theater career? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 08:05 pm EST 12/22/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Frank Langella's aborted musical theater career? - Thom915 07:50 pm EST 12/22/17 | |
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| Yes, he was announced for the one that to have played at the Public. | |
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| re: Frank Langella's aborted musical theater career? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:24 pm EST 12/22/17 | |
| In reply to: Frank Langella's aborted musical theater career? - portenopete 03:23 pm EST 12/22/17 | |
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| It was announced that he was going to be replacing Sergio Franchi in Nine, but they closed the show instead. In addition to the My Fair Lady mentioned below, he sang in the 1980 film Those Lips, Those Eyes, in which he played an actor unhappily stuck playing operetta leads in summer stock and second-rate (if not third-rate) tours. It was nice that he did his own singing (or at least I think he did), but it's inconceivable listening to him that he would have been cast in those roles even in stock and tours. He spoke very eloquently and movingly at the Cook tribute, but he was quite wrong when he said that Cook was something of a has-been in 1982 when he met her at Wally Harper's, and that it was Follies in Concert that brought her back to public attention. Follies in Concert didn't hurt, of course, but her career had been thriving since the Carnegie Hall concert in 1975. And for a year or two before that, she had been making her reputation as a cabaret artist. I think he may have also been misremembering which song she sang at the Barbara Walters dinner party he spoke of, but I wasn't there so I can't be sure. Anyway, he really did speak extremely eloquently and movingly, but he was totally wrong about her career in 1982. |
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| Posted by: AlanScott 10:19 pm EST 12/22/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Frank Langella's aborted musical theater career? - AlanScott 07:24 pm EST 12/22/17 | |
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| I think it was in July 1974 that Cook and Harper played their first cabaret gig together, which was (as I'm sure some folks here don't need to have mentioned) at Brothers and Sisters. | |
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| re: Frank Langella's aborted musical theater career? | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 05:09 pm EST 12/22/17 | |
| In reply to: Frank Langella's aborted musical theater career? - portenopete 03:23 pm EST 12/22/17 | |
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| Didn't he sing in a Mel Brooks movie? | |
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| re: Frank Langella's aborted musical theater career? | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 03:59 pm EST 12/22/17 | |
| In reply to: Frank Langella's aborted musical theater career? - portenopete 03:23 pm EST 12/22/17 | |
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| Don't know about 1982, but I saw him in 1991 in the Houston Grand Opera's MY FAIR LADY. One doesn't usually think of Henry Higgins as virile, but this Professor had brains and sex appeal. And yes, he pulled it off. Laura |
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