All David Hyde Pierce has to do is go on stage, and he gets applause even before he confronts the ridiculously tongued twister from “Pirates of Penzance.”
I am the very model of modern Major General.
I’m info on vegetables, animals and minerals
I know the king of England, and I quote the historical battle
From marathons to waterloo, in order of category
His face has no fuss, babblings, expressions on his face of all sorts around him. He’s funny.
“Why do you think ‘less’ is interesting? “I asked.
“Well, I think a lot of the theatres do more,” Pierce replied. “The unexpected thing in the theatres is that there aren’t many people.”
“Are you tempted to exercise too much?”
“Always,” he said. “You remind me of the great line from ‘Frasier’. It’s about “If it’s less, think about how much more you’re going to do!”
Thanks to his 11 years of running on TV Mega-Hit “Frasier”, Pierce can be aware and afford to choose and choose his role. He is the major of Pirates! The Penzance Musical, a jazzy rewacking of the Gilbert & Sullivan Classic, which was ported to New Orleans.
Pierce showed one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s scores from summer camp in the 1970s (“as old as me”).
“What does Gilbert and Sullivan mean to you?” he asked.
“Hmm, well, that must mean something, “It’s… because I’m emotional,” Pierce replied. “When I think about the question, I think it’s just for nothing.
In his dressing room at the Roundabout Theater, the walls are covered in photos of people who had previously been in the dressing room: “Many famous people, my dear friends,” he said. “I’m finally there. Tradition is very important to us. I know you’re part of something bigger.”
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“The dressing room of Pierce’s “Pirates” nodded to the emotional touchstones that defined him, including one of the most important things, when he didn’t even know what he was doing, the pictures he was talking to his father didn’t even know what he was doing, he hadn’t even thought of anything before,” he said.
Pierce’s father and his grandfather were amateur performers. “The illness is spreading in the family,” he said. “I think it was just not diagnosed!”
He became a concert pianist. He still plays every day, but when he was a Yale student he decided to become an actor instead.
And what brought him to comedy? “I think it has something to do with what attracted me,” Pierce said. “We’ve seen reruns of “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “Mary Tyler Moore,” and “All in the Family.” When I was a teenager, “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” came to American TV on PBS.
It is impossible to see Buster Keaton’s hints in the famous ironing board scene from “Frasier.”
Pierce said, “I want to make sure people can laugh.”
“Why? What does that mean to you? Why is it important?”
“I think that’s a perception of connection,” he said. “Making a comic movie, for example, isn’t as much fun as playing comics. In comics play, you feel a connection from the audience. That’s what I’m there. That’s where I started. I love it.”
As long as he is there, since his partner in 2008, his partner has been actor writer Brian Hargrove. They met at an audition, became friends and later discovered that they were both gay. “Brian took me to dinner in his apartment to pay his taxes,” Pierce said.
“I used to have tax business and actors,” says Hargrove.
“That’s not a comparative phor. That’s what he was actually doing. Tax practitioner! And we went to see this movie.
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It was 1983. It was Hargrove that suggested moving to California. Forty years, after four Emmys and two Tonys, he chose not to take part in the reboot of “Fraser.” At the time, he played Julia Child’s husband Paul on HBO. “I was very pleased with what came to me in the first place, and when I was able to make choices in my career and the choices I made,” Pierce said. “My creativity is supported by change and diversity.”
That’s why David Hyde Pierce said yes to “Pirates.” And a new chance to make people laugh with one of his old favorites.
Because of my military knowledge, I am awful and adventurous,
They were only defeated until the beginning of the century.
However, even so, there are issues with plants, animals and minerals.
I am a modern Major General model!
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A story created by Robert Marston. Editor: George Pozderec.
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