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| Posted by: portenopete 11:39 am EST 02/11/22 |
| In reply to: re: Was Estelle Parsons ever mooted to play Nellie? - pecansforall 10:50 am EST 02/11/22 |
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Thanks for that article! I don't recall Carol Lawson's name: I'm wondering if that was the Friday Arts & Leisure page 2 column, which usually featured a Hirschfeld caricature of one of the subjects of the gossip? I loved that column! It was so exciting as a teenager to hear about what was in the offing!
The Roast lasted only 9 previews and 4 performances despite the TV pedigree of the star and creative team. Klugman didn't end up joining (it would have been during the production of Quincy, M.E. I think?) but I'm assuming Peter Boyle did that role. Great cast! David Huddleston, Bill Macy, Antonio Fargas, Joe Silver and Barney Martin supporting.
And funny to think that people didn't think of Hearn as a singer! That certainly changed after Sweeney! I'd say that because of the replacement on Broadway, the tour and the TV recording (not to mention his 21st-century return to the role) Hearn is even more remembered as the "original" Sweeney than Cariou. Similar (sort of) to Larry Kert/Dean Jones in Company. From the grainy video I've seen (as well as the OCR) Cariou acted the role with more genuinely scary intensity. Hearn seems stoic more than manic.
Still would love to have seen Richard Kiley play Sweeney. |
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