Back in 1957 I played a half-season of stock at the Allegheny Playhouse in Meadville, Pennsylvania. One of my roles that summer\u00a0was “Dignan” in Jean Kerr’s Broadway hit King of Hearts.<\/p>\n
As the young leading man, I recall making an exit with a rather large dog\u00a0under one arm and an 8-year-old boy under the other. I don’t recall the dog’s name, but the boy was called “Norman.”<\/p>\n
Flash forward to 1973! I’m in rehearsal for A Shot in the Dark at the Piedmont Repertory Company in North Carolina. On a rehearsal\u00a0break our producer-director, Ron Law, chimed in that his very first stage appearance in his hometown of Meadville was in King of Hearts.<\/p>\n
I looked at this young man in disbelief and asked, “What part did you play?” “Norman,” he replied. I gasped.\u00a0“I carried you off the stage,” I shrieked incredulously. “Thank God I didn’t drop you!”<\/p>\n
Six degrees of separation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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