Too Marvelous for Words: A GL Cabaret!
As the rescue workers continue digging through the rubble of the World
Trade Center, the cast of GL continues in their fundraising efforts for
the Uniform Firefighters Widows and Children Fund.
The Revue's director, Thom Christopher (Dax), explains:
We're doing a cabaret. It's called Too Marvelous For Words, using
the Johnny Mercer song. The five of us, Ron Raines (Alan), Saundra Santiago
(Carmen), Kim Zimmer (Reva), Paul Anthony Stewart (Danny) and I, are donating
our proceeds from the evening to the fund, and we'll have firemen there
at the show. It's a revue, but there's a body to it, there's a shape,
there's a reason. The concept and direction are mine. The support is from
Mary-Alice Dwyer-Dobbin, Executive in Charge of Production/PGP -- she's
an extraordinary human being, she's very, very supportive. Paul Rauch,
GL's executive producer, has been very supportive, too, about changing
people's schedules so they could rehearse.
I saw Kim a year and a half ago, do a summer stock production of Blithe Spirit,
and she was breathtaking. A friend of mine was with me, and he leaned over
at one point and said to me, "I don't understand why a Broadway musical
hasn't been written for this woman." She's extraordinary. As far as
I'm concerned, she could do anything. I worship at the altar of Kim Zimmer.
And Paul Anthony (Stewart) has been so wonderful. His schedule has consisted
of traveling from the Long Wharf Theater in Connecticut, where he is starring
in Pera Palas, to the studio here. He'd shoot and then, either
before his shooting or after, he'd rehearse with us. This has been his
schedule. He's been extraordinary. We did the whole thing in four weeks,
for a total of, I would say, 20 or 25 hours of rehearsal. It helps to
work with soap actors who are used to working fast. Its only drawback
can be sometimes you move too fast, and you don't slow down. We all tend
to do that. It's my job, coming from theater primarily, to pull it back
a little and not rush it.
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