Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hail had good reason to be nervous, with a history of discouraging experiences in Harvard theater behind him. This time he had asked the play's associate producer in advance if race would be a consideration in the casting, and since she had told him to go ahead and try...
Hail felt stunned--and angry--so the following day he returned to the Loeb to confront directors George Hamlin and Robert Chapman over what he considered unfair and perhaps racist treatment. Chapman, who could not be reached for comment, reportedly told Hail nothing could be done since solely undergraduates were...
Garry called Hail later that day, to ask him to attend the call-back for the butler's role, but also to tell Hail why he couldn't read for any other part. The play was "written for whites," Garry reportedly said; he had decided to do the play "realistically...
"It was all I could do to keep from crying," he recalled later. "Even though I know that I can portray an 18th-century Frenchman if the role called for it, every time I go to an audition I feel they're looking at me only as a skin color...
SOMETIMES I go to the Orson Welles, like when someone forces me to or it's free. I'm always afraid I'm going to lose control at the Orson Welles, lose control and scream "Bergman stinks" as I hurl the coffee-maker against the t-shirt display on the...