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...opening night March 16 and missed several weeks of the show's early run. Then her understudy also fell ill, prompting the producers on one night to rush the understudy's understudy on stage with only a few hours notice, a turn of events that a clearly wearied Pryce had to explain to the audience before the night's show began. "This will be your first Eliza," he said from the front of the stage. "Well, this is my second of the day and my third of the week. Any member of the audience interested in playing Eliza can find...
...Exactly," says Jonathan Pryce, when this is pointed out to him. "The role of Higgins is the driving force of the piece. Even the lyrics of his songs move the action along. That is why it has worked in spite of so many Elizas." Pryce should know. He is now playing Higgins in a sold-out run of the Lerner and Loewe musical at London's Royal National Theatre. The show will move to the West End July 21, and has garnered the kinds of notices that Harrison himself would have been pleased...
...bigger challenge for this 54-year-old actor is, of course, how to approach a role that has for decades been so closely identified with someone else. Pryce said he wasn't daunted by the prospect "probably because I had never actually seen [Harrison] in the part. Then, the night before rehearsals began, I couldn't resist any longer and watched the movie...
...Pryce, who has played the lead in everything from Hamlet to Miss Saigon, clearly has found a way to make this role his own. For one thing, Pryce's professor is decidedly more energetic than Harrison's. He prances up a 6-m library ladder, dances over couches and chairs, and races up and down a spiral staircase, singing all the while. Yes he sings. The lyrics of such famous songs, mostly spoken by Harrison, like Why Can't a Woman Be More like a Man? and I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face are reborn with Pryce...
...Honey" Bartiromo -- wades into movie waters with the excellent HBO-produced Barbarians at the Gate (1993). With recent revelations about the birth of Joe Camel, the broadcast of this savvy comedy of business manners, about the takeover of RJR Nabisco, is fortuitously timed. You get Jim Garner and Jonathan Pryce (not to mention Fred Thompson). You laugh. You learn a little something. Sure, you can rent it, but CP says be on hand at eight for this dream marriage of news and moviedom...