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Onstage, Henry Goodman is a dynamo. To very different roles - from the worried husband in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass to the ruthless political fixer in Alistair Beaton's Feelgood - he brings a riveting, nervous energy. And he knows how to control it; the most compelling moment of his 1999 Olivier Award-winning Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice at the Royal National Theatre was the character's sudden calm, as that energy was channeled into an overwhelming quest for revenge. Yet most people have never heard...
That may be about to change. Goodman has landed the hottest part on Broadway: from March 19 he will replace Nathan Lane as the crooked impresario Max Bialystock in the wildly successful revival of Mel Brooks' The Producers - where seats are scarce despite a record top price of $100 and broker prices reaching $480. The musical is due to hit London in 2003. So the casting of this Broadway almost-newcomer (he worked there in 1998 in the long-running Art) is big news...
...Goodman is handling the pressure nicely. "You've got to think, 'Stuff it, here I go,'" he says. "It's a hugely grueling part. Bialystock drives a lot of the show, he's rarely offstage." A veteran of four American musicals, including Chicago in London, he is a champion of those Broadway belters. "If ever there was a time when people needed to laugh and relax, its now," he insists. "The Producers provides some balance to today's tensions. It's wonderfully offensive to all creeds!" He bristles at the suggestion that musicals are all fluff. "Not merely escapism. Escapism...
...Goodman said that despite its size, the strength of the human rights law program at Harvard helped attract him to the new position...
...Goodman will come from the University of Chicago Law School, where he has focused on human rights law—one of HLS’ under-staffed fields, according to Clark...