Word: gorshin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stars, Imogene Coca and Frank Gorshin, are more sanguine about life on the road. Gorshin, who is tired of doing Kirk Douglas impressions, wants to show that he's serious about theater, and it's hard to get more serious than a bus-and-truck. Coca, who has been performing for nearly 70 years, simply loves the stage. For her, the bus-and-truck is a succession of opening nights. The most fun she ever had in theater, she says, was one night in Davenport, Iowa, where we have just arrived, when she was on an earlier tour...
...time to be theatrical again/ It's time to pull out all the stops again." Still, there is an audience out there, and the cast can never get enough laughter and applause. As she rushes offstage in the first act, Kaye remarks, "It's a very user-unfriendly house." Gorshin, who is perennially down, declares, "It's just one of those nights when nothing goes right. So I guess I'll go home and blow my brains out." The audience, of course, thinks everything is going fine, and at the curtain it rewards the cast with warm approval...