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#1

Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 9:40am

I've been posting these "Passing Angels" threads for the last 2 years. December's will be the final one and for the first time I'm having absolutely no luck at all finding a photo. Larry Kert was the star of "West Side Story" and other Broadway shows. Despite this, I've gone through over a hundred books here and hours on the Internet and I STILL can't come up with a decent photo of him! Lots of distant shots of the stage and some terrible screen caps from the Ed Sullivan/WSS appearance, but nothing I can really use.

SO - I'm asking your help. Does anyone out there have any decent pics of Larry that I can use in the next thread? Send me a PM if you do. I promise to give you photo credit!
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mamie4 5/14/03
#2

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 10:07am

Funny you should mention him Mamie, I was looking for photos of him a short while ago and came up empty. I was not aware that he had passed away. Shame.

I didn't know who he was way back when, but first saw him on Johnny Carson in the mid-to-late 70's when he sang a tune from WSS - Something's Coming (I think that's the title). I remember the audience reaction was really great, and it gave me chills! When did WSS open in NY? So, his appearance must have been a good 10-15 years after it opened.

The reason he was on the show, if my failing memory is correct, was to help promote a play he was appearing in, in LA - Irma LaDeuce. My memory really is failing me, because I can't recall who played Irma. A little help please from the BWW crowd, LOL. Was it Liza?

Anyhow, I did see the play, I thought he was wonderful, and I often wondered what else he had been up to.
#3

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 11:02am

I'm sorry about no more Passing Angels threads Mamie.
But thank you for working so hard and giving us so much to enjoy.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#4

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 11:29am

Lauren -

Larry was Tony in the original cast, in the late 50's, early 60's. He had a GORGEOUS voice and it's hard to understand why so few photos of him exist.

I remember reading a review of the OBC recording of WSS on CD. They compared it, track by track, with the film's CD soundtrack. The reviewer's overall opinion was that a recording with Larry Kert and Marni Nixon (Maria's singing voice on the soundtrack) would have been close to perfection!

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Thank you for the nice words, Glebby. I guess if anyone wants to see them, they'll just have to resurrect the old ones (occasionally adding to them, I guess).
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mamie4 5/14/03
#5

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 11:49am

Funny--he was so handsome and there are so few pictures on line. We'll have to find a photo and scan it.

This is all I could find, from New York, New York:

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#6

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 11:50am

Cute but too small.

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#7

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 11:57am

and this one

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#8

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 12:02pm

Just found it. I have his early 60s LP called "Larry Kert Sings Leonard Bernstein" (small label, terrible arrangements) and it has a gorgeous picture of him.

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I'll try and get the album cover scanned today (I don't have a scanner).

Updated On: 11/17/07 at 12:02 PM

#9

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 12:06pm

Oh - lovely! Thanks PJ!
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mamie4 5/14/03
#10

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 12:24pm

I just looked in my copy of Craig Zadan's Sondheim & Co., and there are about 6 photos of Larry in it. Mayeb there's a way to access some of these photos on line?
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#11

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 12:25pm

Oh, right. I forgot about those.
#12

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 12:38pm

once upon a time the Williamstown Theatre Festival web site had a history page that listed all the performers who've appeared there in the past. They also had a page that listed all the productions from each year. I just went there and (naturally) now all they have is the production page. I don't supposed anyone would know if LK ever performed there?
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mamie4 5/14/03
#13

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 1:02pm

Answering my own question - Larry played opposite Priscilla Lopez in Irma La Douce, 1977.
#14

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 3:34pm

he looks like Joel Grey in that first picture
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?
#15

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 6:15pm

There are quite a few pictures of Larry on Ask.Com. I'd post them but my Copy/Paste features have disappeared on this computer.
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#16

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 7:08pm

Thanks Dolly, but I've gotten all of these from other sources. The problem is that none is a large, clear, closeup of LK. They're either very tiny (and will lose all clarity when I blow them up) or they're really fuzzy now.

If PJ is unable to scan that album cover I'll just use a screen cap from that Sullivan recording. One of those appears on the ASK.COM site. I made some of my own so I wouldn't have to blow it up so much. (It's still awfully blurry though)
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mamie4 5/14/03
#17

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 7:22pm

Have you tried Ebay?
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#18

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 7:29pm

Yes. Ebay is actually a very good source for a lot of photos. The only one of LK that's shown up lately is the cover of the WSS album though.
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mamie4 5/14/03
#19

Posted: 11/17/07 at 7:59pm

My avatar is a reminder to myself. I need lots of reminders...

Updated On: 12/23/09 at 07:59 PM

#20

Posted: 11/17/07 at 8:00pm

My avatar is a reminder to myself. I need lots of reminders...

Updated On: 12/23/09 at 08:00 PM

#21

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 9:49pm

Try the Ken Bloom book "Broadway Musicals" (the one with the shiny silver dust jacket). There are several good ones in there and one of him with his shirt off with Mary Tyler Moore from "Breakfast At Tiffany's"
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#22

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/17/07 at 11:10pm

Unfortunately I don't have the book. Maybe someone with a scanner has it and can help.
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mamie4 5/14/03
#23

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/23/07 at 11:57am

I went to the library and took out the OBC recording. Oh how I wish I had seen this on stage. He deserves his own website.

Question - In looking at the credits, Mickey Calin played Riff. I remember the actor Michael Callan used to be a dancer, and just looked him up and it turns out he was Riff (according to IMDB). Are they really the same person? I wonder why he changed his name.

Also, the credits lists Elizabeth Taylor playing one of the Sharks girls, Francisca. That's not Our Miss White Diamonds Elizabeth Taylor, is it?
#25

re: Larry Kert

Posted: 11/23/07 at 11:30pm

Mickey and Michael Callan are one and the same person. Elizabeth Taylor is not the Elizabeth Taylor.

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