Suzie Tagayev and her friend Saundra Chaon showed up at Nunsense at the Boathouse and shortly after that Suzie asked if I would play Miles Gloriosus in Forum for Tahoe Arts. I remember thinking that's a character I would not usually be cast as and would be a lot of fun.
The Action and Tahoe This Week had a couple of great pieces on the show.
We had gone to Caesar's Tahoe and shot some publicity shots and also here is one from the show.
In the fall of 1987 I got the opportunity to play Hero again in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, this time with the Sunshine Dinner Playhouse in Champaign. Below is the program.
January of 1982 was cold. I remember going to a rehearsal for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at Iowa City Community Theatre and it was something like 20 below zero. Not a good time to be wearing a toga. It was fun getting to play the character of Hero. A young Michael Crawford plays him in the movie. What's kind of funny is that Amy McDonald, who was playing Philia opposite me, had dark hair and wore a blonde wig, while I had blonde hair that I dyed dark.
