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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

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

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

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

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

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

nm
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