| And don't forget the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 04:20 pm EDT 09/06/18 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 04:07 pm EDT 09/06/18 | |
| In reply to: Burt Reynolds has died. - bwaynut 03:35 pm EDT 09/06/18 | |
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| Burt Reynolds was world-famous as a movie star, but said: ''You aren't really an actor till you've been on the stage.'' So in May 1978, he broke ground for his $2 million Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre in Jupiter, Fla. He said his dream was ''a theater for people who haven't seen theater, at prices they can pay. I also want to have a place where actors, friends of mine who most producers don't have access to, can work... . I've made friends who grew up in theater. They just don't want to get clobbered by the New York critics. They want to have fun. They can do the show they want to. I can't pay much, but they'll get a condo, a car, the royal treatment.'' For the next decade, it did 116 productions. And his theater attracted the likes of Carol Burnett, Charles Nelson Reilly, Farrah Fawcett, Eartha Kitt, Ned Beatty, Vincent Gardenia, Elliott Gould, Kirstie Alley, Robert Hays, Marilu Henner, Robert Urich, Marsha Mason, Parker Stevenson, Ossie Davis and Dom DeLuise. And he directed them. Plus, he starred with Sally Field in ''The Rainmaker'' and with Burnett in ''Same Time, Next Year.'' The theater was seldom profitable, but Reynolds kept it going. It won various awards and helped provide Equity cards for dozens of actors. And musical fans might recall Reynolds for co-starring with Dolly Parton in the movie of ''The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas'' (1982). |
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| Link | Washington Post: The curtain falls on Burt Reynolds' Florida theater |
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