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| Arthur Laurents' letter to Allan Carr re: Robert Stack in La Cage | |
| Last Edit: Marlo*Manners 09:43 am EDT 08/04/22 | |
| Posted by: Marlo*Manners 09:39 am EDT 08/04/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Robert Stack in La Cage - n/m - TheOtherOne 08:38 am EDT 08/04/22 | |
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| Via Michael Riedel in the New York Post: "Dear Allan, Two years ago, I listened to Robert Stack sing in your living room and said politely that he had an instrument but needed to take singing lessons. Your reply was memorable: “But Bob’s aunt was an opera singer!” I also pointed out that since Stack’s stage experience — something you hadn’t even asked about — was limited to five weeks of summer stock 20 years ago, it behooved him to get some real experience. Nevertheless, you, the Veteran Producer (according to your bio, which, however, lists no previous theater experience worth mentioning) waited until I was in London and then insisted on signing Stack without anyone hearing him read, let alone sing, in a theater. You took a full page ad in The New York Times heralding the Coming of Sonny Tufts [a long-forgotten opera singer-turned-actor] to the Palace. Brilliant! But when the Opera Singer’s Nephew was staggering and stumbling through rehearsals that were painful and embarrassing, did you come to New York to be supportive of your floundering friend? No, you hid. And when it was necessary to lead your friend to the sad truth that he would be publicly humiliated if he appeared onstage before a paying audience, did you lead him to the truth? No, I had to do that. Veteran Producer was too busy asking how do we — we! — get out of it. And who got dumped on in the media for the whole mess? You, the person responsible? No, I did. And did you, self-proclaimed P.R. expert, the Mouth always so busy giving interviews about “your” “Cage aux Folles,” did you bring your alleged expertise to my aid? No, you stuffed a white flag in that mouth and limited your concern to giving your friend a good financial settlement for being no good. The Stack fiasco cost well over $100,000. Did you pay? No, the show did, the investors did. Will they ever know? How creative is your bookkeeping? As creative as your ducking responsibility? Because who, in this whole painful and unnecessary episode, who got off scott free? You did. For once, I would like to get an acknowledgment of a letter written to you. If not, a copy of this will be sent to your investors or the press or Stack or all of them. Arthur" Marlo Manners (Lady Barrington) |
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| re: Arthur Laurents' letter to Allan Carr re: Robert Stack in La Cage | |
| Posted by: ryhog 08:33 pm EDT 08/04/22 | |
| In reply to: Arthur Laurents' letter to Allan Carr re: Robert Stack in La Cage - Marlo*Manners 09:39 am EDT 08/04/22 | |
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| and two months later, Arthur was dead, the last survivor of those mentioned. | |
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