| re: The big news is that they aren’t billing her like the star of the show | |
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| Posted by: WaymanWong 06:41 pm EST 03/11/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The big news is that they aren’t billing her like the star of the show - BroadwayTonyJ 04:59 pm EST 03/11/22 | |
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| George Rose's 1976 Tony win (for ''My Fair Lady'') reminds me of an amusing story Mako once told me for The Sondheim Review. I asked Mako: ''What did you think about your chances for winning a [Leading] Tony for 'Pacific Overtures'?'' Mako said: ''I had run into [newspaper columnist] Earl Wilson, and he told me that he had inside information that I was going to win. I said, 'Come on!' I didn't place that much emphasis on the outcome, except I was renting a floor from Jerry Orbach, who had a brownstone, and he also was nominated for Best Actor in a Musical [for 'Chicago']. I thought Jerry would win. ... [George Rose] and Ian Richardson were also nominated for 'My Fair Lady,' but that was a revival, so I didn't think they stood a chance. But [Rose] won anyway. I got home late, about 2:30 in the morning. At about 4:30, I heard Jerry Orbach shouting from the floor below: 'Hey, Mako! What the f*ck happened? I can't believe it. We lost to a f*cking revival!' '' (And speaking of Sydney Chaplin, he won his 1957 Tony over Stanley Holloway and Robert Coote, both in ''My Fair Lady,'' for Featured Actor.) |
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