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| Even more interesting to look over at article on page 3..... | |
| Posted by: portenopete 11:52 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Who was originally slated to play the role of Ouisa in SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION? - garyd 11:03 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| Across from the Friday On Theatre blurbs- a feature I sorely miss, especially the weekly Hirschfeld miniature- is another interesting piece about the shuttering of Neil Simon's JAKE'S WOMEN in San Diego and the decision not to bring it into New York. (It would appear two seasons later after his enormous success with LOST IN YONKERS and play for half a year.) Stockard Channing was appearing in the Simon and would have been performing in its last week at The Old Globe while SIX DEGREES was having its first week of rehearsals. I wonder whether Channing mightn't have been the first choice for Ouisa and that she had opted to go with the more likely success- the Neil Simon play- and then when she suddenly became available just as the Guare was going into rehearsals, they engineered a switcheroo? What I can't get my mind around is why Blythe Danner wasn't terrific as Ouisa Kittredge? She seems to the manner born. And I'm forgetting: did Swoosie Kurtz ever play Ouisa? I seem to remember- in the prologue to the published version?- that Kristin Griffith took over in rehearsals. And I'd never known about the tour with Marlo Thomas until today! |
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| re: Even more interesting to look over at article on page 3..... | |
| Posted by: Lapsedfan 01:02 am EDT 06/27/18 | |
| In reply to: Even more interesting to look over at article on page 3..... - portenopete 11:52 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| For what it's worth, here's a link to the interview I referenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASkV66sRlWA | |
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| re: Even more interesting to look over at article on page 3..... | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 12:23 am EDT 06/27/18 | |
| In reply to: Even more interesting to look over at article on page 3..... - portenopete 11:52 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| You were involved in that long and involved thread here in June 2017, much of which I have reasonably handy in screenshots. I wrote one especially long post in the thread, which I cannot bring myself to type up again. I'm tempted to just upload the screenshots to sendspace for people to download. | |
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| re: Even more interesting to look over at article on page 3..... | |
| Last Edit: whereismikeyfl 12:21 am EDT 06/27/18 | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 12:17 am EDT 06/27/18 | |
| In reply to: Even more interesting to look over at article on page 3..... - portenopete 11:52 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| I think the skullduggery you suggest is unlikely. Multiple sources who were present at the first day of rehearsal noted that Danner seemed to not understand a script that everyone else immediately recognized the quality of. Equity rules provided only a short window in which an actor could be fired at the start of rehearsal, so they either had to trust that she would eventually get it, or fire her immediately. Guare's claim that Channing was not brought in to replace Danner, but merely to fill in at rehearsals until they found a replacement was the general understanding of those involved. The decision to give her the role came later. |
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