“Many years ago, I was told the following story: Broadway producer Leland Hayward was about to put Maxwell Anderson’s Anne of the Thousand Days onto the stage. He asked the author whom he envisaged as the ideal actor to portray Henry the Eighth. The playwright thought about it, then mentioned a good, safe, workmanlike actor of very little panache.
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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