| 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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