| Robert Conrad as John Adams in 1776 | |
| Posted by: TomE 10:52 am EST 02/09/20 | |
| In reply to: The best of 'The Wild Wild West': TV star Robert Conrad dies at 84 - WaymanWong 06:18 pm EST 02/08/20 | |
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| I didn't see the show, but I found the following from a review and an interview. It played for a few weeks in June and July of 1976, at the Little Theatre on the Square in Sullivan, Illinois. "But the show abounds in strengths, too. Robert Conrad, one-time beefcake boy wonder of the television tube, has plugged along, worked hard and developed into an A-one actor. His portrayal of John Adams is brilliant. He even breaks out into real tears when the scene demands. His John Adams is a gamecock, a banty rooster tyrant whose love of country overpowers all else. The audience was his from scene one." There's a photo of him in costume, too. (Journal Gazette, Mattoon, Illinois -- June 26, 1976). "I've been doing '1776,' as John Adams. He could be me when he says, 'I'm 41, and I still have my virility.' .... I made John Adams a two-fisted SOB! I played the part for the first time in central Illinois -- Sullivan -- on July 4. I hadn't sung since 1964 -- at the Casino in Mexico City. I never experienced such fear! I've been in the ring with a 200-pound heavyweight and I've dropped out of an airplane from quite a height, but that was nothing like being backstage on opening night, waiting to face a live audience. I was traumatized! I sure knew then that I was a religious boy. I kept offering more prayers! Later a reporter asked me, 'Were those real tears in your scene with Abigail?' 'Yes,' I said. It was the first time I'd ever cried on a stage -- because I was scared to death!" (Philadelphia Inquirer -- September 24, 1776) |
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