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The Seven-Ups (1973)

"Hey, do me a favour, huh? Don't tell me what I know. Listen to what I'm saying. The guy you iced was a cop."

"Okay, so he was a cop!"

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The Cast of Hamlet (1964) in Musicals: Part 5

Oops I've been neglecting this again. Here we go!

Eileen Herlie (Gertrude) did two Broadway musicals. I hadn't listened to either until this project, and I'm glad I have now, she has a lovely singing voice. For the first show, Take Me Along, she was nominated for a Tony! Here she is with Jackie Gleason:

Next she did All American with Ray Bolger (yes as in the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz), playing a college dean. In this song, she attempts (pretends to attempt?) to seduce a student because... plot? Here's a synopsis, it's very convoluted. But the song is fun!

And here's the hit song of the show, a duet with Ray Bolger, because I can't not include him:

George Voskovec (Player King) was a replacement Herr Schultz in the original production of Cabaret! Here are some audio bootleg highlights. I haven't listened to the whole thing, but Voskovec is mentioned in the description, so he's probably in there somewhere.

Shortly after Hamlet, Robert Burr (Bernardo, Hamlet understudy) had a featured role in Bajour, a show which is, uh. Racist. Here's Burr's song, a duet with Nancy Dussault (plus ensemble). Warning for an anti-Romani slur in the dialogue, though the lyrics are fine.

Anyway, Burr was also in the ensemble of the 1947 revival of The Cradle Will Rock, which starred Alfred Drake, and he played Edouard Dindon in the first national tour of La Cage aux Folles.

Barnard Hughes (Marcellus, Priest, Claudius understudy) played Senator McFetridge, which seems to be a non-singing role, in How Now, Dow Jones. At some point during the run of that show, he took over a larger role. Much later, he played Henry in the film adaptation of The Fantasticks. Do not watch the film adaptation of The Fantasticks. A terrible representation of one of my favorite shows. :(

Geoff Garland (Lucianus, Gravedigger and Reynaldo understudy) was the Two of Spades in that Alice in Wonderland with Richard L. Sterne, and likewise didn't get to film it. He played some small roles in Cyrano with Christopher Plummer, appearing as the Monk on one brief dialogue-only track of the cast album:

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Before those he played Lord Brockhurst in a regional production of The Boy Friend, and after, he did two productions of My Fair Lady as Alfred P. Doolittle.

Fun fact, All American, Bajour, How Now, Dow Jones, and Cyrano are all featured in the book Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops.

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Related to the Cast of Hamlet (1964) in Musicals posts, this is Robert Burr, sometime Bernardo and Richard Burton's understudy, singing an expurgated version of "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" from Kiss Me, Kate with Florence Henderson (best known as Carol Brady from The Brady Bunch, but also a musical theatre star). It's from an episode of The Bell Telephone Hour that aired on August 11, 1964, just a few days after Hamlet closed. Unfortunately the "straight Shakespearean scene" that Henderson refers to doesn't seem to be available online, but we do get to see Burr do a teeny tiny bit of Hamlet!

At this point Burr already had musical experience - in 1947-48 he was in the chorus of a revival of The Cradle Will Rock, with Alfred Drake as Larry Foreman. I'll discuss his further musical career in another post!

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"Living Simply" sung by Robert Burr and Nancy Dussault from the 1964 musical Bajour