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was first in London about four years ago
and then deciding to do in no man's land here
with that what what sort of informed that and inform
what why did you want to do these characters in these plays in
with each other we had a wonderful experience doing
gato in England it
its have been I opening I had not long before that read Peter Bowles
autobiography unbeatable was the original pazzo
in the original London production and he described how
when they came back after the interval
they would find the theater half-empty or more
because people would have just gone left water out and we
toured Britain for eight weeks and then we have
long run in London and there was never a seat to be had for any performance
and so many those audiences will very very young
and I think I recall one banging seat
in the whole 22 weeks we were doing that
a and it's been a wonderful experience to see how what was considered
an impossibly difficult challenging play
has now become so accessible audiences
but I'd said I'd always want to do no man's land
sharing a dressing buddy and washing work I knew he was Spooner
I thought well i'll settle for hers which is the other room wonderful role
and some I I
I kinda wore him down about is
he resisted and for the reasons the word about about surge on and so forth
but them um Sean gotta see and I said Sean I want you to direct it you
directed gotta
he got us into dressing room other theater in Milton Keynes where
in was on tour in the production directed by Sean another production
and we did a reading play non
it we lofty I we left all boy
helpless yes and I could see that it was that way I mean ice with the lobby and
being won over that it was
so the role his role was so funny and the play itself was so
brilliantly funny I'm and the and
them at that point wrong I think said well look
there's something we could do here we'd always wanted to bring order to New York
and then there was another production
by optimum years ago our plans I'm
well really they were abandoned until it seemed possible that
enough time gone by we might have a shot at doing it here
and doing both plays alternating them
for each week and two days in the week when you can see both plays
if you want to and I do think it will be a fascinating experience
and we are also the producers in terms of
we we organize the production
with Stuart Thompson who is an authentic prieta
tandem her I and and
we have also ourselves invested woo
I I think it's fairly unique what we're doing it is
you've got a great producer with strip but you've also made a great decision to
keep
a little ticket prices low with Jess rare for broadway's thirty dollars
from yes that it does yeah great bird
add
that you're not that dumb the light from the stage as it does here
just spills over onto the front door I the
half in half out to catch I think so well you only paid thirty dollars you
lucky bugger
I %uh the is a small to blow up in their faces as their
realize they're about to have a a bargain that's very important is now
that in the same that the globe there to say production very low prices
course you have low price the
and though there's a bus a go to the theater and can afford
by the big prices and get the prime seats well-run
yeah we should pay for those because we're hoping to subsidize that the
people who can't afford
bout XR
in our if you're if you're on don't have ships
there's a subsidized by local authority or on
I'm a government authorities really do
from minute it is in the UK than you have to find ways around it but
the commercials it's a %uh maybe but the point is
it was not that it is commercial right that's the last consideration
on about course if people don't come into your show
you'll be discouraged from ever doing so good a
London doesn't turn people into stars quite the same way that hollywood in
america does and
sometimes feder sizes them even I'm when you when you were becoming
have big here how how excited are how
nerve-wracking was that for the viewer to you did you sir block that out so the
the celebrity part of america om
catch up about mmm Star Trek we were a syndicated
televisions we with the first first-run syndicated series
have from and
although we had huge audience in great numbers
we always had a feeling so far as hollywood is concerned
that because you know there is a hierarchy in hollywood I'd always
imagine there wouldn't be
that you know this is the great democracy and
everybody would be equal retain true I
worker and and I've found that being
in a syndicated science fiction
television series process quite low
on a ladder of prestige
in hollywood arm
and euro we in
all the seven years that we doing the series
we got one creative
nomination um which was from
the first year the Screen Actors Guild nomination
the our technical side
that was was continually nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes
but never for the creative side and we often forget it was because
that we were actually not really taken seriously
um
I forgot your question this I he was about %uh the way the
other way that hollywood makes people into stars and and well that was
something oh yes well then I came here to Brooklyn
to it to Broadway I'm sorry I live in Brooklyn came here to Broadway
with my one-man show Christmas Carol I'm
and hide I've been hauling it around colleges and campuses and
Southern California for a couple years
do and each year doing something different with it first time I
I had papers in my hand and i was reading that means
Srinivasan at this and finally I learnt is and I'm
a a
a one run tempt tempt him in terror trials
could never produce some broadway before wanted to they took a gamble on bring me
to Broadway
one man in a suit in 40 pieces of furniture and then nothing else at all
and Madras lighting plot and um
that first performance at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre
um I I was don't sure what
was the first thing that was going to happen to me on a Broadway stage I was
gonna throw up
I was so frightened and all
sought reckoned films and meant nothing
because I was so terrified all
I've not giving up my best here in New Yorkers Broadway for
English actors Broadway does have a special
excitement to it there is a community here
yeah in the on the Broadway stage which there is not
in the same way in London I'm alright mention
these are a couple personal fanboy questions
are that the had to do you ever do you ever miss
playing jump to cart
no I go
I don't miss playing him arm
I E I love that character
he I admired him that was
one of the nice things about being him um
butts you know we was supposed to be a failure
as writer Ian said white what you write seven years I was told
by everybody I knew in hollywood without exception
don't worry about signing a six-year contract you'll be lucky to make it
through the first season
you cannot revive an iconic series everybody said that
Ryan and so towards the end
it yes it its I wanted to be.
branching out and doing things that were min
more diverse yep yeah but the films were
great great for yeah when the last movie
the it struggled a bit at the at the box office and then it was sort of
did it feel for the fans it certainly felt over the that
part of the next generation that but for fit was raised because he didn't
actually lose money
no just it just didn't make as much as my other sister
and and paramount I can't remember who it was at paramount who said this but
they said
the fact is your show is suffering from franchise
fatigue
right and it was a pity because a.m.
John Logan terrific screenwriter I
great screenwriter and wonderful playwright right to
his play Red was extraordinary I'm and
he had written that reminds and
he had an idea for another movie
which would have he and brent Spiner between them that would bring together
all love the living figures from
the Star Trek mom history in one but
its yeah its it's a
gonna motoring somewhere in the back room up and I I it's
I've Logan cell phone number so berta I
he and how much I am how much %uh Gandalf his you how much
them as Peter Jackson much of them as Tolkien new
somehow grasped a get your arms around that question number
some possible well as it came as I was to go to CS Lewis's
I'm lectures you man who wrote The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
or talking courses at Oxford so
another the good fortune to meet but
I'd recognize the type and pipe smoking
3d englishman with shoots brain and and and
an interest in the world and
language expression so
across tokens in orders characters but he's is particularly
inside gone
or or was it was that the question I don't know about to
its why I guess yeah is them
from and I'm very fond of gambling
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