Word: nicholses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sort of director whom most writers and actors only meet when they are asleep and dreaming. Actors agree he is their ideal one-man audience. He sits in rehearsals and howls and chuckles until the actors get delusions and stare across the footlights at 1,500 Mike Nicholses. He lets them invent and improvise on their own. When in doubt he says, "I don't believe...
Nichols is particularly close with his playwrights. He insists that they be at rehearsals at all times. "The author should be your ally," he says. "You should be whomping away at the play together." Murray Schisgal, author of Luv, puts his debt to Nichols in one short and generous sentence...
Unlikely Wish. In Barefoot rehearsals last year, Nichols played Alphonse to Playwright Neil Simon's Gaston.
"Let me restage it," Nichols would say when they hit a foggy patch. "No, let me rewrite it," Simon would insist. Next month Simon and Nichols will be working together again, on Simon's new play The Odd Couple, which will star Art Carney and Walter Matthau. "It'...
When he finishes that one, Nichols is going to direct a couple of movies, The Public Eye for Universal and The Graduates for Joe Levine. He never wants to give up directing plays on the stage, and he has ideas he would like to implement. He thinks Samuel Beckett, for...