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| re: "at last my arm is complete again" or "right arm is complete again" | |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 04:41 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 04:25 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
| In reply to: re: "at last my arm is complete again" or "right arm is complete again" - pecansforall 12:12 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
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| While an editor's note in an article in The Sondheim Review said that Hearn is left-handed, my memory is that when Hearn told the story himself, which I think was at the time of the 2000 New York Philharmonic concerts, he said that he was right-handed but thought they wanted a left-handed Sweeney. My memory could be wrong. Do you have Hearn telling the story himself? Or are you just sure he's left-handed? EDIT: And I know that Sondheim in Finishing the Hat says that Hearn is left-handed. I believe he was misremembering, as he did with so many things in his two books. But, of course, I could be misremembering. | |
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| re: "at last my arm is complete again" or "right arm is complete again" | |
| Last Edit: pecansforall 06:30 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
| Posted by: pecansforall 06:28 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
| In reply to: re: "at last my arm is complete again" or "right arm is complete again" - AlanScott 04:25 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
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| Linked below is where I read that Sondheim said that Hearn is left-handed. I think you may be right that Sondheim simply misremembered. Also, now that I think about it I seem to recall Hearn in an interview somewhere talking about being right-handed and he humorously recalled that during rehearsals he asked Prince if he could use his right arm and Prince responded with a one-word answer that offered no further explanation, "No". In the Prince staging at the moment Sweeney utters that line he begins to exit stage-right so he's holding the razor up high with his downstage arm. I remember the stage going dark and the followspots tightly focusing on the razor and the razor sparkled and glistened like a mirror ball throughout the house. (On the Lansbury/Hearn video the moment is mostly lost because the lighting had been adjusted to much brighter levels for the taping in order to compensate for the then less sophisticated cameras that had trouble with low lighting.) |
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| Link | “Len Cariou was left-handed, as was George Hearn, his replacement, so I had to cut the ‘right’” in the line “My right arm is complete again!” |
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| re: "at last my arm is complete again" or "right arm is complete again" | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 07:18 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
| In reply to: re: "at last my arm is complete again" or "right arm is complete again" - pecansforall 06:28 pm EDT 10/08/23 | |
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| In the Prince staging at the moment Sweeney utters that line he begins to exit stage-right so he's holding the razor up high with his downstage arm. I suppose "At last, my downstage arm is complete again" just wouldn't have have sounded as good...;-) |
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