Summer stock theater

I was so serious in college.

I was like, how do I get it right to do it again, to get more work? And I did Summer Stock and then I toured.

I got a chorus line.

There was a short New York revival in 1991.

So she did this 70 minute show once, once a day, every day, we would have 15 minutes to set it up.

And the other thing was, you know, it's crazy.

learning the technical background, you know, from doing summer stock and being a little shop and all this, I've always had a great relationship with designers where I understand enough of the language and then let them run.

So we had no time to train anyone to tech the show.

for the movie.

In theater, there's an article, Summerstock thriving in metropolitan area.

The article has a very loose view of both metropolitan area and summer stock, but we do love to see regional theater getting some love.

But, you know, both of those terms have meanings and Goodspeed is not it.

Yeah, well, but your Beverly Crusher is something to be admired, I know.

So when you were an actor, I mean, you did Summerstock.

Yes, I did.

Where did you do Summerstock?

I did Summerstock in Old Westbury.

Westbury Music Fair? Oh, famously.

And also at Summers Point, New Jersey.

So we'd rehearse eight hours a day, six days a week, and then we'd put up a show.

Summer Stock.

Yeah, yeah, but for kids.

Cool.

Once the long Broadway run of Victoria Regina ended, Vincent Price did some shorter running plays, including a few with Orson Welles' Mercury Theater, including The Shoemaker's Holiday in 1937.

It was there where he became reacquainted with an actress he'd met the previous summer in a Summerstock production.

Her name was Edith Barrett, and she was actually a pretty famous Broadway actress.

Up until this point, Vincent hadn't had much time for love, although he did have an on-again, off-again romance with actress Barbara O'Neill for a few years, who he'd known since his childhood in St. Louis.

Director Michael Curtis didn't really want Errol Flynn either.

He didn't take his work seriously enough.

Second, Vincent Price had played the role of Essex in a Summerstock production, Errol Flynn's part.

And every time Flynn messed up a line, which sounds like it was often, Michael Curtis would point to Vincent Price, the newcomer, and say he wanted him to play the part.

Got very involved in the arts, sang, dance, um, did things like, uh, taking you back, this is how old I, I am.

I did Up With People and I did SummerStock in New York and all kinds of stuff and spent the early parts of my years traveling and, and working my craft, which I loved.

And, um-

As a professional ballet dancer.