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It’s me and Tori Amos. Well, wouldn’t YOU look stunned? She really is that radiant. It’s like she was dipped in the same luminous stuff that makes up Saturn’s rings. She was in the parking lot behind the old Palace Theater on College Street, loading in for a show there sometime in the early ’90s. … Continue reading
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My daughter Mabel snapped this shot of me alongside a lifesize cut-out of W.C. Fields at the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not museum in Times Square. I’d planned to bring the girls to their first Broadway show that day (we were considering Mamma Mia!) but we ended up spending the afternoon at Ripley’s instead. Why … Continue reading
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It’s me and Marvin Hamlisch! He was at the Shubert theater back in the ’90s for one of his patter-filled “Evening With…” piano concerts in which he discusses his long and varied career. At the after-party in the Shubert mezzanine, I was briefly invited to shake Hamlisch’s hand, during which I uttered incredulously, “I’m just … Continue reading
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It’s a mid-1990s me (on the left) standing in awe of my one of my theater idols, Lewis Stadlen Jr. (aka Groucho, Dr. Pangloss, Senex, Nathan Detroit, Max Bialystock, Mickey Fox…) The photo was taken at the Shubert in New Haven at the reception following opening night of the first national tour of Laughter on … Continue reading
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This is me with Roddy McDowall. As if you need to be told, I’m the dumpy guy on the right. McDowall was effortlessly dapper and charming, despite having just caught a scoundrel onstage in the national tour of Dial M for Murder which played New Haven’s Shubert in 1994. McDowall played Inspector Hubbard in the … Continue reading
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That would be me, on the right, in the ska-kid black & white checked jacket, next to jolly Frank Wildhorn, at the the Shubert Theater in New Haven around 15 years ago. I’m guessing it was during the pre-Broadway shakedown of his Jekyll & Hyde musical, but Wildhorn would resurface at the Shubert frequently —with … Continue reading