Word: subber
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Subber is quoted as saying that Nichols cast a real cab driver in the phone man's part in Barefoot in the Park and that the cab driver, Herb Edleman, became an actor as a result...
...Saint Subber's Stomach...
...They did. They also hated the play, which folded in Philadelphia after 17 performances. "It was not a pleasant experience," admits Mike. "I behaved very badly toward Elaine." She abandoned performing for about six years. Mike, as he says, "might have been Dick Cavett today" except for Saint Subber's stomach. The producer owned a play by a TV comedy writer named Neil Simon. He remembered a funnyman who might just be able to direct. "Mike had misgivings and doubts," Saint Subber recalls. "He said, 'Why do you come to me?' I said, 'I chose you because I thought...
Producer Alexander Cohen still remembers with awe when Nichols called him one night to rage: "This theater is in total darkness!" One of the 30 lamps on the balcony rail was flickering. Saint Subber's marrow freezes when he remembers Nichols' insistence that The Odd Couple set be repainted 24 hours before opening. When he cast Barefoot, Nichols was even more demanding. "Mike insisted on getting a real telephone man or a taxicab driver to play the telephone man," recalls Subber. "I thought: this has to be a put-on. But I ended up getting a cab driver?...