Word: actor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unaccustomed to such a hands-on director, the actors at Cleveland's Great Lakes Theater Festival were perplexed at first, afraid that the boss might stifle their creativity. "I should have heard those lines, and I didn't," was his constant complaint during rehearsals of Broadway, a melodrama he had first directed in 1926. But then they remembered the name behind that stern voice. "Hey," said one young actor, "this is George Abbott! We know it's going to work...
Nothing is wasted on an Abbott show. Rehearsals start on time, and there are no temper tantrums or displays of nerves from either the director or the actors. Legend has it that a Method-trained actor once yelled from the stage, "What's my motivation?", to which Abbott responded, "Your job." He despises what he considers exaggerated interpretations. "If an actor puts his personality ahead of creating the character, then he's not an actor," he says. "He's just a performer...
McCrady is sure of himself as an actor, a confidence that comes from years of training. In high school, he left Sewanee for Minneapolis to spend a year at the Minneapolis Theater School. Every summer has been spent in summer stock. He has appeared in three Hasty Pudding theatricals, two Gilbert and Sullivan productions and numerous other productions including Play, where he and two other actors performed sitting in urns. Freshman year he was in five shows plus the Pudding. "And I was also trying to convince myself I was a mathematics major, which was tough." Fall semester junior year...
Being on his own in Italy didn't convince Gelber that he could be satisfied with the uncertainties of the actor's life. He already knew that. Gelber's interests are diverse though. He wants to write and act and says jokingly that he's the only person he knows who wants to support himself as a writer by being an actor...
While he's supporting himself as a writer by being an actor, Gelber says he's willing to support himself as an actor by being a bartender. "I don't see a job as an end in itself; I see it as a means to supporting a creative...