 When we did the first preview, we weren`t ready. We hadn`t teched the show. But we proved them wrong.
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I thought, `It`s a pretty grisly story, but if he makes a really romantic kind of score it might work,` ... But God knows why that subject matter would speak a musical to him. It`s still beyond, I think, most people`s comprehension.
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I was in Canada running the Manitoba Theatre Centre as artistic director and I had written to Mr. Prince and asked him if he would give me his stage manager copy of the musical `Company,` which I was going to do in my season there, ... He said, `Yes,` and then said, `By the way, Stephen`s written you a musical and I`m going to send you the book.`
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I said, `Fine.` I was amused by that `Oh, by the way,`
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It brought the place to its feet.
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[Many people in the theater business attended that first preview on Feb. 6, 1979.] A lot of them said it was too bad, but it wasn`t going to work, ... And I was really disappointed that especially actors gave it no chance.
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Trivia
Marriages, Heather Summerhayes (25 October 1986 - present)
Susan Kapilow (1975 - 1978) (divorced)
Patricia Otter (? - ?) (divorced) 1 child
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Daughter, Laurel.
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Won a Canadian Genie Award for Best Actor in "One Man".
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Accomplished singer/actor in numerous Broadway shows. He won a Best Actor (Musical) Tony Award in 1979 for "Sweeney Todd". He was also Tony-nominated in the same category in 1970 for "Applause," and in 1973 for "A Little Night Music," a role he recreated in the film version of the same name, A Little Night Music (1977).
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Lived with Glenn Close in the `70s.
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Is Canadian
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