Word: off-broadway
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...studios cut back in the '60s, that system was largely dismantled. Producers had to find actors on their own, and they began to depend on a new group of independent casting directors. Explains Urban Cowboy Producer Robert Evans: "I don't have the time to go to off-Broadway plays and little theaters or to watch hours of television...
...every Winger or Russell, a casting director may have interviewed dozens of candidates and culled from memory hundreds more. Most of the directors, like Fenton, attend as many plays as they can in Los Angeles and make regular tours of off-Broadway. "We have a standing rule in our office that each person must go to two or three theatrical productions a week," says Jennifer Shull, casting director for Coppola's new Hollywood studio. "The job requires thoroughness. You have to look where others...
Selznick came across Colleen Dewhurst in a theater, but on the wrong side of the footlights. "How would you like a thousand dollars a week?" she asked her. Dewhurst, who had already appeared in an off-Broadway play, allowed as how she would not mind, and Selznick landed her a big role in Man on a String...
After the Air Force, Hagman tried his luck off-Broadway, then did a two-year stint on The Edge of Night. There were several modest roles in movies, including one memorable semivillain in The Group. But Hagman's most important part before Dallas was in the airhead sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. For Hagman it was the big break. He worked constantly, rewriting scripts, fighting to get the best possible performers. "I was driven, compulsive," he remembers. "I yelled at people. Finally I couldn't take it any more. I started to vomit...
...Civic Center, the former New York Jet nimbly slipped through some opening-night tight spots. When upstaged by a squealing pig, he simply outbellowed the boorish ham. Later, when his pitch wandered way offsides in a love duet with Hee-Haw's Misty Rowe as Daisy Mae, off-Broadway Joe just laughed along with the twittering crowd and won a round of sympathetic applause. "Singing is a new experience, and there's lots of room for improvement," he admitted later. But shucks, said the pride of Dogpatch, "the people surely liked the show...