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| The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial | |
| Posted by: bobby2 08:21 pm EST 12/01/20 | |
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| Who is that as Sweeney? It doesn't look like Len Cariou. In the comments it says the commercial was shot in late summer. Had Robert Klein left They're Playing Our Song that early? |
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| Link | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbSG4gdm55A&fbclid=IwAR0bNdRHbtc0vdKSzYWybBWkOOEXLYsf4XTKnNOHSBkLZfPrNhTWlBf-F50 |
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| re: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial | |
| Posted by: theaterisok 04:04 pm EST 12/02/20 | |
| In reply to: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial - bobby2 08:21 pm EST 12/01/20 | |
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| Wow, I think this 2nd one is actually they first one they did. They even tried to include hit plays! Bless 'em. | |
| Link | https://youtu.be/IrT97o3eeBI |
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| Worth it for Frank! | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 05:51 pm EST 12/02/20 | |
| In reply to: re: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial - theaterisok 04:04 pm EST 12/02/20 | |
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| I've never seen Langella that young or with that much hair. Delightful! | |
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| Earlier Langella | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 04:40 pm EST 12/03/20 | |
| In reply to: Worth it for Frank! - Singapore/Fling 05:51 pm EST 12/02/20 | |
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| There's lots of stuff out there with him younger than in this commercial, including two roles that he played onstage and repeated for PBS filmings based on the stage productions: The Seagull from a Williamstown Theatre Festival production with a starry cast, and The Prince of Homburg, based on a Chelsea Theatre Center production (with Patricia Elliott replacing Randy Danson from the stage production). Seagull can be watched complete on youtube (linked). The first six minutes of The Prince of Homburg can also be found on youtube. He also did The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (opposite Blythe Danner) for PBS, this one not based on a stage production. All of these were issued by Broadway Theatre Archive. One thing that has not been issued is the Benito Cereno shown on WNET in the 1960s, before there was a PBS. Also, he was in leading roles in movies, including Mel Brooks's The Twelve Chairs and Frank Perry's Diary of a Mad Housewife. |
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| Link | The Seagull |
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| I would kill to see that video of Benito Cereno! (nm) | |
| Posted by: BigM 12:47 pm EST 12/06/20 | |
| In reply to: Earlier Langella - AlanScott 04:40 pm EST 12/03/20 | |
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| Fortunately, that will not be necessary | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 10:20 pm EST 12/06/20 | |
| In reply to: I would kill to see that video of Benito Cereno! (nm) - BigM 12:47 pm EST 12/06/20 | |
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| The Paley Center has it. Scroll down at the link. | |
| Link | Benito Cereno at the Paley Center |
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| re: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial | |
| Posted by: singleticket 11:35 am EST 12/02/20 | |
| In reply to: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial - bobby2 08:21 pm EST 12/01/20 | |
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| I wonder what year it is? It's clearly about encouraging Broadway tourists to hang out in nyc after dark... a siren call that only really took hold after the area was restructured under Giluliani with rezoning and increased NYPD presence. | |
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| re: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial | |
| Posted by: manchurch03104 07:54 am EST 12/02/20 | |
| In reply to: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial - bobby2 08:21 pm EST 12/01/20 | |
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| it's George Hearn. Tony Roberts' piano playing? |
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| re: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 02:02 pm EST 12/02/20 | |
| In reply to: re: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial - manchurch03104 07:54 am EST 12/02/20 | |
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| Seems unlikely it would be Hearn since he played it in New York only with Dorothy Loudon, not at all with Lansbury. Watching it again, I have no doubt it's Cariou, especially looking at the closeup at the beginning. The long face, the cleft in the chin, the more prominent nose. Listening closely, it also sounds much more like Cariou than Hearn. | |
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| re: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial | |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 10:54 pm EST 12/01/20 | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 10:52 pm EST 12/01/20 | |
| In reply to: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial - bobby2 08:21 pm EST 12/01/20 | |
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| I think that's Cariou. Same nose, same chin, long face. Doesn't look like to me Walter Charles. I think the reasons why he looks a bit different here are the eyebrows are different and he isn't wearing the death-white makeup and he's lost a bit of weight during the months he'd been doing the show, which often happens. The odd thing is that he looks taller than Lansbury but still I think it's Cariou. And in at least one article about the commercial, he is mentioned. Tony Roberts went into They're Playing Our Song in mid-December 1979. I'm guessing that they reshot just that part. I wonder if they're really in Times Square or if that's perhaps a rear projection (whereas every other sequence is clearly not rear projection). |
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| re: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial | |
| Posted by: bobby2 08:54 pm EST 12/02/20 | |
| In reply to: re: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial - AlanScott 10:52 pm EST 12/01/20 | |
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| I have a vague memory from childhood of being surprised Tony Roberts was in the commercial. I think he may have been signed on to replace Klein already and so they filmed it with him knowing he'd be the star when the commercial aired. I think the commercial may have even started airing before his run began. I guess it's Cariou but he just looks different. Maybe for the reasons you said. It definitely isn't Walter Charles. Was Charles the only understudy for the whole run? |
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| re: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:18 pm EST 12/02/20 | |
| In reply to: re: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial - bobby2 08:54 pm EST 12/02/20 | |
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| Walter Charles was the only understudy for the entire Broadway run and the entire national tour. | |
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| re: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial | |
| Posted by: pecansforall 08:58 pm EST 12/01/20 | |
| In reply to: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial - bobby2 08:21 pm EST 12/01/20 | |
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| I agree with you that it's not Cariou. I think it is Walter Charles who was Cariou's understudy. | |
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| It IS Cariou! 99.9% sure. | |
| Posted by: portenopete 09:18 am EST 12/02/20 | |
| In reply to: re: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial - pecansforall 08:58 pm EST 12/01/20 | |
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| As Alan Scott says, he looks like he'd lost some weight but it's him, not Hearn or Charles. Did Cariou do anything between leaving Sweeney in early 1980 and then joining the Stratford company in Ontario in 1981, where he played Petruchio and Coriolanus in 1981 and Prospero and Sergius (in Arms and the Man) in 1982? |
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| re: It IS Cariou! 99.9% sure. | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 01:47 pm EST 12/02/20 | |
| In reply to: It IS Cariou! 99.9% sure. - portenopete 09:18 am EST 12/02/20 | |
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| He went right into filming The Four Seasons. In the fall he did a production of Macbeth in Toronto for which he got good reviews but they generally said things like, "Len Cariou's Macbeth is the only thing that keeps this production from being a total disaster." Somewhere in there he was in the television remake of Madame X with Tuesday Weld. He did some radio stuff, including reading The Tin Drum for the CBC, broadcast in 20 parts. | |
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| re: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial | |
| Posted by: mlop 03:08 am EST 12/02/20 | |
| In reply to: re: The Sweeney Todd I Love New York commercial - pecansforall 08:58 pm EST 12/01/20 | |
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| I dont think its Walter Charles either. | |
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