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| re: Watching Music Man on TCM, inspired checking out the original data | |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 12:40 am EST 02/14/22 | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 12:38 am EST 02/14/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Watching Music Man on TCM, inspired checking out the original data - portenopete 10:47 pm EST 02/13/22 | |
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| Forrest Tucker did play the whole three years and seven months of the tour, except vacations. A friend saw Hickox. Hickox left to play Charlie Cowell in the movie. The Music Man film has at least two tour cast members (Hickox and Susan Luckey), and at least one Broadway replacement (Paul Ford). In 1964, Luckey married Larry Douglas, Broadway Harold Hill standby for a good deal of the run. He did play vacations and, of course, when a Hill was sick. And later he played Hill in stock. And then he was the district attorney in Here's Love and Fred Gaily understudy. Luckey and Douglas were still married when he died in 1996. Not only did Tucker play more performances as Hill than Preston, he probably played more performances than Preston, Eddie Albert and Bert Parks put together played during the Broadway run. The only reason I hedge is because I can't know how much vacation time Tucker took and how many performances he may have missed for other reasons. And ditto, although to a lesser degree, for the Broadway guys. Tucker was not only the tour cast member to play the whole tour. So did Cliff Hall (Mayor Shinn), Lucie Lancaster (Mrs. Paroo), Benny Baker (Marcellus) and three of the four quartet guys. If you scroll down on the ovrtur tour page, we have a note on this. (I know people often miss those notes. If I do say so myself, sometimes there is fascinating info in those notes. And sometimes there is dull info that is nonetheless important in some way.) Of course, there are plenty of people in other shows who played even longer full runs, including on tours, which you might think would just get too tiring. But we all know why an actor might make that choice. |
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| re: Watching Music Man on TCM, inspired checking out the original data | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 12:32 pm EST 02/15/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Watching Music Man on TCM, inspired checking out the original data - AlanScott 12:38 am EST 02/14/22 | |
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| Alan, your encyclopedic knowledge of showbiz never fails to dazzle. You really oughta audition for ''Jeopardy!'' and give Matt Amodio and Amy Schneider a run for their money! ;) |
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| re: Watching Music Man on TCM, inspired checking out the original data | |
| Posted by: portenopete 07:14 pm EST 02/14/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Watching Music Man on TCM, inspired checking out the original data - AlanScott 12:38 am EST 02/14/22 | |
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| I marvel at your acumen and the invaluable addition that Ovrtur is to my life :). I don't think any detail is too obscure for inclusion! That must have been a very happy company to be in if so many principles stayed with it for so long. I would imagine Tucker would have been a big part of that, since it can't be much fun sharing a stage with an unhappy star. I always forget Davey Burns was the original Mayor Shinn, since Paul Ford is such an indelible presence in the movie. Did Ford never play Horace Vandergelder? It seems such a perfect fit! I guess he was busy with Never Too Late when Dolly! was being prepped but he was a fixture on broadway through the early 1970s and even replaced John McGiver as The Mayor at the end of the run of that very starry Robert Ryan/Bert Convy The Front Page (when the replacements are Dody Goodman, Butterfly McQueen, Maureen O'Sullivan and Molly Picon, that's a show I'd want to see again). |
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| re: Watching Music Man on TCM, inspired checking out the original data | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 07:41 pm EST 02/14/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Watching Music Man on TCM, inspired checking out the original data - portenopete 07:14 pm EST 02/14/22 | |
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| Paul Ford, hopefully you are aware, played Horace in the film "The Matchmaker"opposite Shirley Booth. They're both great. | |
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| re: Watching Music Man on TCM, inspired checking out the original data | |
| Posted by: portenopete 09:02 pm EST 02/14/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Watching Music Man on TCM, inspired checking out the original data - PlayWiz 07:41 pm EST 02/14/22 | |
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| You might be hopeful, but I had forgotten. (I've never actually seen it.) | |
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| re: Watching Music Man on TCM, inspired checking out the original data | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 11:51 pm EST 02/14/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Watching Music Man on TCM, inspired checking out the original data - portenopete 09:02 pm EST 02/14/22 | |
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| You're also missing Anthony Perkins and Shirley MacLaine at their most charming, as Cornelius and Irene. Plus Robert Morse is adorable in his stage role of Barnaby. | |
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| re: Watching Music Man on TCM, inspired checking out the original data | |
| Posted by: portenopete 10:33 am EST 02/15/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Watching Music Man on TCM, inspired checking out the original data - PlayWiz 11:51 pm EST 02/14/22 | |
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| Stop making me feel so guilty! LOL I wish I had TCM..... |
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| My mistake, you mentioned the movie! Sorry. nm | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 08:07 pm EST 02/14/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Watching Music Man on TCM, inspired checking out the original data - PlayWiz 07:41 pm EST 02/14/22 | |
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