| re: Other game-show hosts with Broadway credits | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 11:53 am EDT 08/16/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Other game-show hosts with Broadway credits - taplady 11:27 am EDT 08/16/24 | |
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| I recall seeing Davidson off-Broadway at the old Promenade Theatre in a truly awful play called HIGH INFIDELITY, in which he costarred with Morgan Fairchild. They played a high-powered US Senator in the midst of a presidential run and his glamourous wife who can barely stand to be in the same room with each other and the play was about them seeking marriage counseling, lest their personal issues become public and derail his bid for the White House, on the single day they both could spare in their busy schedules. It was terrible and I have no idea why Davidson and Fairchild would have committed to it. It can't have read on the page that much better than it played. It can't have been the money, since they were off-Broadway, right? I also saw Davidson return to STATE FAIR at the otherwise non-AEA Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven, NJ alongside his daughter who was (surprise!) playing his daughter in the show. And I saw him in a tour of BULLY as Teddy Roosevelt. I remember really enjoying him as Roosevelt. He was really good in the part. I'd seen him in the pre-Broadway tour of STATE FAIR, and I thought it was sweet of him to step back into the role, presumably to give his daughter a career boost. No idea whatever happened to her. I don't recall ever seeing her in anything again. I remember little else about that production of STATE FAIR. Surflight in general, at least in the days when I would go occasionally, wasn't known for its productin values. They were a true summer stock venue with young, non-Equity casts rehearsing one show during the day and playing another at night and each show running a week or so through the summer with a new show every week. |
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