![]() ![]() And Mary would go off between scenes and just cry. They just hated it and they started yelling at us. And the audience hated the show, they had never seen a dark musical before. And we were in this huge theater, The Majestic I think it was, packed of course because everyone smelled death. We closed for two weeks before we opened in New York for previews. Abe was close to exhaustion and then they brought in Edward Albee, of all people, to rewrite it. So in Boston I realized we were in trouble. But I didn’t, I was green as could be, I was having a fabulous time. The gypsies knew the show was trouble right off. And we played a month in Philadelphia, the audiences were nice, the reviews weren’t, but the audiences were nice. I was playing George Peppard’s part from the film. Meanwhile, I was having a great time playing opposite Mary Tyler Moore. So he would go home and write and come back and direct, and as brilliant as he was, he just really got tired. One of things that happened is that Abe was forced to go into rehearsals before finishing the second act. There is a thing called ‘magic’ and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn’t. It was suppose to be the big hit of the decade. And it was a hugely expensive production. Abe Burrows wrote it, Michael Kidd did the choreography and Bob Merrill did the songs. Why do you think that production was so snakebit and can you describe the back stage feeling among the cast and production staff regarding the many changes that took place?Ĭhamberlain: Everybody good in the world was involved in it. ![]() : Right after Kildare, you embarked on the Broadway musical stage version of ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’ which closed during previews. It wasn’t until fairly recently that I’ve had the type of freedom to really sing. I sang the standards, and they were okay. I could have never have done pop or rock ‘n roll. And that was not conducive to really great singing. There is no place to hide when you’re singing, and I was rather shy and inhibited in so many ways. The more totally yourself you can be, the better. But I didn’t have a singer’s ‘personality.’ There is a kind of an energy that goes into singing. You’ve subsequently done several musical theater roles and sang in the ‘Slipper and the Rose.’ Is there anything, based on the training you had afterward, that you’d want to change about your earlier recordings?Ĭhamberlain: I was taking singing lessons right from the beginning. : Because of Kildare, you got to embark on a singing career, charting several singles. There was a few episodes of getting naked pictures, which were charming and wonderful. I usually outfoxed them, and would take off in my great car. Every once and awhile a car-full of girls would see me and we’d have these chases through the Hollywood Hills, because I didn’t particularly want to stop. I had a powder blue Stingray with the top down most of the time, I loved that car. Richard Chamberlain: A lot of car chases. What was the strangest fan incident or celebrity-style moment you had during Dr. : Let’s talk celebrity during the early 1960s. Richard Chamberlain sat down with for a comprehensive interview on his life and times, a potpourri of memorable success. Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for Recently, Chamberlain wrote his autobiography, “Shattered Love,” in which he revealed that he was gay, and followed that up with his scene stealing role in “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.”Ī Florid Life: Richard Chamberlain in Chicago, March 13, 2010 His film career then picked up again, as he played a major role in the 1970s schlock classic “The Towering Inferno” and both versions of the Musketeers films (explanation below), before becoming “King of the TV Miniseries” with unforgettable turns in “The Thorn Birds,” “Shogun” and Centennial, among others. Moving from that show in the 1960s, he went to England near the end of that decade, to study stagecraft, and eventually became the second American (after John Barrymore in 1929) to play Hamlet while in residence. Kildare,” gaining fame in nearly Beatles-like proportion. He recently introduced “The Four Musketeers” at The Hollywood Palms in Naperville, Illinois.Ĭhamberlain made a superstar splash on TV in 1961 when he played the title character in “Dr. CHICAGO – Still regal and debonair, Richard Chamberlain has graced both the screen and television with a memorable presence that has spanned 50 years. ![]()
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