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Academy Award-winning actor Jack Lemmon '47 abruptly cancelled a scheduled appearance with the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) last night. The show, originally slated for Nov. 3 and 4, will be postponed indefinitely...
Lemmon's agent, David Seltzer, proposed to the HPT this summer that the actor star alongside his wife, Felicia Farr, in a production of A. R. Gurney's two-person play "Love Letters." Details were finalized last week, and the HPT had already sent out a press release announcing the performances at the 360-seat Hasty Pudding Theater when Seltzer called to cancel...
...HPT co-producer Ben S. Forkner '01 said that the performances were being put off because of "unavoidable scheduling conflicts...
...huge letdown for the Theatricals," Forkner said, adding that the show would have marked "the first time in recent memory" the HPT would have featured an actor of Lemmon's stature...
...HPT, BBC, AND OTHER HIGHBROW CULTURAL PHENOMENA...