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Castaway
1 appearance
Theatre producer known for hit shows including The Rocky Horror Show, A Chorus Line, and Sleuth.
On the island
Eight records
Original Broadway Cast of West Side Story
Which when I saw it, just this song knocked me out, and the whole production, it was Jerome Robins Westside Story.
Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
But this record just reminds me of my childhood in a kind of nice way. It ties in with r remembering a bit the way my mother was.
Which is A Sad Song, Billy Holiday, I Cover the Waterfront.
I wanted to pick this record because it was a fun thing and it's very good to dance to for exercise on the island.
Coming in from the ColdFavourite
I think it's the only music that you don't I haven't got tired of.
This is a song from the show, and in this club, the band who are playing there every night in the play, uh an American female band called Femme de Femme.
Götterdämmerung: Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene
Birgit Nilsson, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Georg Solti
And I like the sario. It's so sad. It's the end of the gods. And I like this feeling of the end, death, the end of an era.
In conversation
Presenter asks
5:07What was it and why did we never see [the show 'I']?
You didn't see it because when I saw the dress rehearsal I knew the result. I mean you do often know. You pray that you'll get away with it, but deep down you know when something's good or bad and you know it pretty quickly. And after I'd sat through the rehearsal I just knew what would happen.
Presenter asks
7:00What does [your eclectic range of productions] have in common?
Well, I don't know. It's partly my taste. I have schizophrenic taste in the sense that I like the mainstream, what I call the Ethel Merman school of show business ... But I also very much like the avant-garde and the new and the unexpected.
Presenter asks
9:58What was miserable about [your childhood]?
Well, it was miserable'cause I had very acute asthma. So that's why I don't like going on about it. It just brings back bad memories. That's the only reason. I was very sickly.
Presenter asks
The keepsakes
The book
Marcel Proust
I've read three times. And like very much. And it gives you a whole other world. It's like suddenly you've got an entire new group of friends family.
The luxury
You want to keep healthy, don't you? And you probably couldn't swim in the sea because of all the nasty little things in it, but you could cycle round the circle.
Where do you stand on your opening nights?
Oh, I like hiding. ... I like standing at the back or sometimes if I feel very brave I used to sit in the near the critics, but I don't do that any more. It's too nerve-wracking.
Presenter asks
19:55Has [your playboy image] got anything to do with your own aging?
Possibly. But I've always been like that. ... I've always [not liked getting older]. ... I'd be quite happy to have stayed [a] teenager, forever.
“I have schizophrenic taste in the sense that I like the mainstream, what I call the Ethel Merman school of show business, which is I thought she was the greatest and that kind of it's show business, etcetera. But I also very much like the avant-garde and the new and the unexpected.”
“There is no such thing as a beautiful person unless they have something inside as well.”
“I just think most people say things because it's the correct thing to say. Like, oh yes, growing older gives me wisdom. I'm I know more about this, I understand more, I'm more tolerant and s it's just not true. People become less tolerant, they become very set in their ways, This is the thing I think one has to fight against.”