Word: mastersons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parts were easy to write, they were not easy to play. Barry, 62, who had played macho characters like TV's Bat Masterson, was afraid of being too closely identified with a homosexual role. "People still call me Bat," he explains. "You really do become the part you play. In rehearsal, George and I didn't look at each other as a man or woman, but as someone we dearly loved. If I ever had a problem, I'd just think of my own wife." However he did it, Barry's portrayal of Georges is suave...
Into this den of iniquity marches Sergeant Sarah Brown (Nan Hughes) at the head of her Salvation Army. Sarah has the misfortune to be at stake in a bet between Nathan Detroit, who needs a quick $1000 to finance his crap game, and "Sky" Masterson, a rich gambler looking for action. Detroit has but Sky that he cannot get the righteous Sister Sarah to go with him to Havana...
Directed by Colin Higgins Screenplay by Larry L. King, Peter Masterson and Colin Higgins...
King relates his backstage odyssey in the voice of vintage Slim Pickens. When Songwriter Carol Hall and aspiring Director Peter Masterson, both fellow Texans, want to turn his story of the "Chicken Ranch"-a LaGrange, Texas, bordello closed by politicos-into a musical comedy, the financially troubled journalist promises himself to do "big work." But, as he admits, "whether a musical about a whorehouse made the weight" is debatable...
...what about the folks that started the whole thing? "A year ago I was sick about it," says Peter Masterson. "Now I think it was the best deal I ever made. They paid me to direct it and then I didn't have to." And Stevie Phillips, she says, "It's a brainchild I didn't want to see changed. Now it has adoptive parents...