Post date: Nov 17, 2012 3:40:4 AM
Torok's remark as we came offstage after every performance, all full of ourselves and high on the applause, remember? And because he was so disciplined with praise, I remember so well the few occasions that he did share his pride in what we'd done: how well he thought "West Side Story" worked for us, with young people (for once) playing young people; how he thought that we'd captured the small-cast drama that was at the heart of "Camelot."
A song in "Follies" includes the line "Life was fun and oh, so intense." That always makes me think of summer theater. And Torok there to channel all that intensity.
Bill O'Neill '68