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| re: Louis Jourdan in ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (nmi) | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 06:05 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
| In reply to: Louis Jourdan in ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (nmi) - BroadwayTonyJ 05:05 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
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| William Daniels, also in the cast, thought letting Jourdan go was a mistake. | |
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| re: Louis Jourdan in ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 06:26 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 06:25 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Louis Jourdan in ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (nmi) - TheOtherOne 06:05 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
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| According to Suskin, Jourdan couldn't sing the score, especially the ballads. Lane lobbied to have him fired, and eventually Lerner agreed. | |
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| re: Louis Jourdan in ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 06:40 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Louis Jourdan in ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER - BroadwayTonyJ 06:25 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
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| That explains it, especially with a gorgeous score like that, but Daniels thought Jourdan's sexy French charm helped resolve some of the show's other issues. Lerner must have been after that quality, seeing as he would later cast Yves Montand (to no great success) in the film. | |
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| re: Louis Jourdan in ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER | |
| Last Edit: lordofspeech 10:37 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 10:36 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Louis Jourdan in ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER - TheOtherOne 06:40 pm EDT 08/02/22 | |
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| William Daniels was taped explaining that Louis Jourdain’s extraordinary matinee idol persona fed into the hijinks of Barbara Harris’s Daisy Gamble. Her over-the-top infatuation with this out-of-reach European hunk was deliriously funny, apparently, and, though the replacement John Cullum sang the songs wonderfully and was a very good actor, the show lost a teensy bit of Harris’ genius because of the switch in casting. Nonetheless, that girl, on Broadway opposite Cullum when I saw her, was sheer delectability. What a talent!!!! |
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