BK, I find it interesting that you have never seen FOLLOW THE FLEET all the way through before. It may be one of my fav Rodgers/Astaire films...Great songs. I'm glad to hear that Guy Haines would want to sing LET YOURSELF GO, long a favourite song of mine. But LET'S FACE THE MUSIC & DANCE, I'M PUTTING ALL MY EGGS IN ONE BASKET, & I'D RATHER LEAD A BAND are all swell numbers. I also think Ms. Hilliard quite wonderful and wish I could find a recording of her SATAN, GET THEE BEHIND ME.
I was also surprised to learn from yesterday's notes that you had never seen LAST TRAIN FROM GUN HILL. Good solid western. Both Kirk Douglas and Quinn in fine form. And nice support from Carolyn Jones and Earl Holliman.
The movie I have probably seen the most times would be GUNGA DIN or THE MALTESE FALCON. THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD is probably not far behind. I have DVDs of them all. But I usually catch them on the tube and, once I've clicked on them, I'm hooked and there for the duration. The Lovely Wife can get irritated because I can quote most of the dialogue from all of them. I just saw TO HAVE & TO HAVE NOT, probably for the seventh or eighth time. By comparision, I would say that I have seen Gunga Din or Maltese Falcon anywhere from between thirty or forty times.
I rarely go to see movies twice in the theatre. Growing up in a small town that had a second-run theatre, you usually went and saw whatever was playing that weekend. When I started going on dates, you didn't really go to movies on a repeat basis.
I would guess the movie I've seen the most in a theatre would be GONE WITH THE WIND, because for years the only way you could see it was through its periodic re-releases...I probably saw it about four times that way...the last being in Odessa, Texas, in the mid-seventies when I and another actor took a young actress to see it for the first time. What a fun experience that was. It left her totally wrecked. I have, of course, seen it many times since on TV and have it on video.
Most plays that I have seen multiple times would probably be Shakespeare plays. I've probably seen four or five RICHARD III's; about four AS YOU LIKE IT's (a play I am not fond of); four or five TEMPEST's (the last being Derek Jacobi's...easily the best Prospero I ever saw, though not the best Tempest); multiple Hamlets, Much Ados, MacBeths, Romeo & Juliets, and Taming of the Shrews.
I've seen three different productions of NOISES OFF, three or four performances of WHAT IF, AMADEUS twice, several IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST productions. I saw SUMMERFOLK by Maxim Gorky twice at the National Theatre...once when I was there for business, then I had to dragged The Lovely Wife to see it when we were back there together because it was so brilliant.. There are a few musicals I've seen more than once...Fantastiks, Little Night Music, 1776, Man of La Mancha, more Fiddlers than I ever wanted to see...I'm sure there are other multiple productions of things I've seen but I'd have to cull through my programs to remember.
Probably the plays I've seen the most are the one I wrote, WHODUNNIT, DARLING?, and the one I wrote and directed, THE EBONY APE...where I was at every performance.
