Mark Curry: The Dark Matter Tour Live @ Barclays 10/13/2023
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25 or 30 years ago Tim Curry might鈥檝e made a wonderful King George VI
So 1) I don鈥檛 really see it, sorry
However 2) I鈥檇 have been up for it because that would have been the most weirdly sexual George VI ever and 3) I actually think he鈥檇 have been up for it. Weirdly just the other day I found this picture on my phone which I saved last year because I thought it was so funny. It鈥檚 Tim Curry wearing a shirt with Princess Anne and Mark Phillips on it for absolutely no reason lol
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So, I was reminded of the fact that Tim Curry played Mozart in the original production of Amadeus...with Ian Mckellen as Salieri, no less...my kingdom for a time machine.
And I got to thinking about how different Tim Curry's career could have been if he had reprised his role in the film. Now, Tim Curry has obviously had an incredible career, with nearly 250 credits to his name...some of which are iconic: Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue, Legend, etc. But he was never really in any films that were, for lack of a better term, "Oscar Bait"...he was never in a big prestige picture that was flooded with awards and accolades (I'm sure there are some that maybe hoped they would be, like Legend, but things just didn't work out that way). But just think about what his career might have looked like if he had played Mozart in the film instead of Tom Hulce. He probably would have gotten the Oscar Nomination for Best Actor, and it may have led to a very different career. Or things might have worked out about the same...who knows? It's just something that I've been thinking about recently.
And my guess as to why he was not in the film (I do believe that both he and Ian Mckellen auditioned) is that he was probably considered to be "too old". By the time they got to filming, he would have been around 37 years old...and it might have been difficult for an audience to believe that he's in his early 20's at the beginning of the film. He was 34 when the show opened on Broadway...but it's easier to seen younger onstage...the audience is so far away from you...lol.
But I still wish I could have seen the stage production, holy shit.
Also...if he had done the film version of Amadeus...there's a possibility that we may not have gotten him in both Legend and Clue! They were released the year after Amadeus, and if his career had taken a different turn, he may not have done those movies...and that is unacceptable to me. The world needed his performance as Wadsworth....
And honestly, could anyone else have played Darkness?
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Candids of Stevie, Christine, John Courage & Curry Grant photographed by Sam Emerson in 1978.
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