| re: Tony, those just about line up with mine! | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 08:04 pm EDT 05/07/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Tony, those just about line up with mine! - PlayWiz 06:44 pm EDT 05/07/24 | |
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| As far as I can tell, Pinza did have a better attendance record in Fanny than in South Pacific, although he was out with pneumonia for five weeks at one point. I think I read years ago that Merrick, knowing of Pinza's poor attendance record in South Pacific, insisted on putting in the contract that Pinza would be docked pay every time he was out, and that made Pinza show up more often. I'm not sure I did read this since I can't find it anywhere. I figured it had been in Kissel's bio of Merrick, but it's not in there, and I can't figure out where else I might have read it. On the other hand, it seems unlikely that I would have imagined it. Otherwise, Pinza took a one-week vacation that was originally announced to be a month, but then was changed to just one week. Nicola Moscona subbed that week. As for Tibbett, in those days it was rare for replacements to be reviewed. Variety was the only publication that regularly reviewed replacements, but I cant find a review for Tibbett even there. He only played the role for around four months, or perhaps a bit less. Although it took a month or more before it was acknowledged in the press, he was out with what was said to be intestinal flu, and his understudy, Henry Michel (a former Billy Bigelow), took over for what ended up being around two months before Italo Tajo took over for the last weeks of the run and then did the tour. Tajo also did it, after the tour, in California, for the Los Angeles and San Francisco Civic Light Operas. Strangely, the tour didn't play those cities, but instead the Light Operas mounted their own production, with Tajo, Claude Dauphin, Doretta Morrow, and Jack Washburn (Broadway replacement and tour Marius), directed by Albert Marre. |
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