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David Hyde Pierce on Returning to Broadway in ‘Pirates! The Penzance Musical’ and Turning Down the ‘Frasier’ Reboot
David Hyde Pierce talks about returning to Broadway in 'Pirates! The Penzance Musical' and giving up sitcoms for the stage.
It’s the morning after I’ve just seen Pierce, hold the audience at the Todd Haimes Theater in the palm of his hand while playing a dotty, tongue-twisting-and-tangling model of a modern Major General in “ Pirates! A year later, Pierce, who had been a theater actor before achieving sitcom fame, was treading the boards in “Spamalot,” the Mike Nichols-directed adaptation of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” The show was a hit and Pierce has rarely left the stage since; he won a Tony for the Kander & Ebb musical comedy “Curtains” and appeared in acclaimed productions of “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” and “Hello, Dolly!” as Bette Midler’s better half. Intentional or not, “Pirates” composers Gilbert & Sullivan has popped up periodically across the course of Pierce’s professional life, perhaps attracted to the gravitational force of his enviable diction.
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