| re: What roles might Tony winner Lenny Baker of "I Love My Wife" had played if he hadn't died young | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 01:38 pm EDT 08/10/20 | |
| In reply to: What roles might Tony winner Lenny Baker of "I Love My Wife" had played if he hadn't died young - PlayWiz 11:11 am EDT 08/07/20 | |
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| I saw Lenny Baker onstage in six shows, though not in I Love My Wife, which did not interest me at all, not even with Lenny Baker in it. I loved him. I still think his Lucio in the 1976 Measure for Measure is one of the greatest performances I've ever seen. I don't think he would have done roles that were done by Nathan Lane and/or Matthew Broderick, partly because he was born in 1945 and they were born in 1956 and 1962, respectively. Having said that, Lane was really too young for Mendy in The Lisbon Traviata, but I don't especially see Baker in that role. I'm a little hard put to think of roles in which he might have been cast. His physicality might have been viewed as limiting him somewhat, although his brilliance got him cast in roles for which he might have seemed unlikely. Still, I can imagine him as Henry Carr in a revival of Travesties (I first saw him in The Real Inspector Hound), in various Chekhov roles (some of which I'm surprised he seems not to have played because he would have been so perfect as Tusenbach, Treplev and Trofimov), possibly as Hamlet if anyone would have thought him right for it, a slew of Shakespeare character roles, and (coincidentally) the Baker in Into the Woods (although it really makes more sense for the character to be younger but Chip Zien was born in 1947). So I guess that I can come up with roles for him. And he would have been a great Felix Unger in an Odd Couple revival, a role that Broderick did play. Anyway, I loved him a lot. |
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