Vetinari wrote:(Jealousy!) - I suspect that he's one of the few people I admire that wouldn't disappoint in real life! He always comes across as such a lovely guy, sigh I just wish I wasn't born too late to actually see him on stage...
Actually he's been doing the Wizard in ALW's The Wizard of Oz on stage in London till recently. He's still very actively performing. Last I heard it's "possible" that he might come to perform with the Toronto show or maybe the NYC cast if they do Broadway. You should go see if you can. I've seen clips. He looks like he makes a wonderful Wizard/flim flam medicine man. Not surprised he was cast for that. It was right up his alley. He was so terrific as PT Barnum. If he comes here I definitely will take a trip up to see that. I wouldn't miss it for the world. I love Oz and him as the Wizard? I've been dying to see that.
I'd just love to say "hi" again too if I can get the chance. (I'd love to see if he even remembers me. ;P) I just might if they do Broadway and he opens there. It's actually very possible if I go to the show with someone I know there I might get the chance. They are on very good terms, very old friends. If I go up I'll probably stay with her and go to the show with her. Likely we'll go backstage after. I don't know if she'd want to do Toronto. She's a very elderly lady now, but she lives in NYC and if he comes there for any reason she'll likely go.
He is a lovely man, very special, a bit shy at first but very well mannered and once he relaxes with you he's just adorable. I don't actually "wow" too easily. I'm not so easily flustered this girl, but oh man was he just "something" as my late Grandma would have said. He's just one of those people who radiates being kind and he's too funny besides. I spent a while talking to him at the time. It was a social thing not a fan meet up situation so I got to see the real him I think.
My friend used to tease me afterwards about meeting him. My head (and libido) got totally turned around for some reason. I had really admired his work, had been watching out for him in stuff long before POTO, but I honestly didn't have a crush thing for him when I walked in. I was pleased to meet him, but I definitely wasn't a salivating, fawning Phan girl. By the time I left though I was totally smitten with the man, more than a bit turned on, and FYI there's a lot of years between us, way too many for me to be legally going there. He's so exactly my type that guy only he's just not my era, unfortunately.
He made "quite" the impression on me at the time. I don't think I've ever quite forgotten him. I still do respect him enormously as a performer but as man and a human being? I think he's really pretty darned special. Obviously I still have a huge "thing" (laugh) and that was quite a few years ago. I often wonder if I had asked him to dinner what he'd have said. He was single, not seeing anyone at the time. I could have but I don't even think he saw me that way. Probably he'd have seen me as way too young, but I was sooooo tempted to ask despite the major age difference....
You ever meet some totally fabulous older guy, think :wow: and wish you'd been born a generation earlier? I always see couples where the age difference is like 20-30 years and think it's a bit too much, you know? 10-15 years one way or the other is one thing but when you start going more than that I get a bit weirded out. But then I think about my quite unexpected reaction to him and wonder if just maybe I should have said SOMETHING. Probably wouldn't have gotten me anywhere but at least I wouldn't still be wondering years later if maybe I should have....
Listen to me, this is just too silly. You can't see it but I'm actually sitting here smiling and blushing a little. That's just so lame, lol....
