The Richard Kind curse?
The Richard Kind curse?
#1The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/22/11 at 3:29pm
Just noticed the other day that every time Richard Kind is cast in a show, it never works out well for him.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Replaced Greg JBara - show closed two-three weeks later.
Sly Fox - Replaced Richard Dreyfuss - Show closed 12 days later.
The Tale of Allergist's Wife - Replaced Tony Roberts - Show closed 4 months later.
Bounce - Closed out of town.
The only show that had an okay run after him was The Producers. Two years.
Coincidence? I. Think. NOT!!!
#2The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/22/11 at 3:32pmI think it's more related to the point a show has to be at in its run to cast Richard Kind, not a curse of his own.
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#2The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/22/11 at 3:40pmI think the Roz Kind curse is more lethal.
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#3The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/22/11 at 3:46pm
He is the Ted McGinley of American theater.
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#5The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/22/11 at 3:55pm
He is the Ted McGinley of American theater.
Though Ace Young is fighting hard for that title
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#6The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/22/11 at 4:28pmI know, I just thought it was funny. lol I really do like Richard Kind. He's hysterical and doesn't have the worst voice. I hope he can get a good role on Broadway that suits him one day.
#7The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/22/11 at 5:01pmI was actually told by a theatre-critic friend that Kind was brilliant in Sly Fox and light years better than Dreyfuss. Overall, though, Scott is correct. Kind is a talented actor who has never found the right vehicle. He was great in Bounce--the only part of the show that really, truly worked; his performance was award-worthy.
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#8The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/22/11 at 5:05pmAs much as I loved Alex Gemignani in Road Show (I'm in the minority of those who actually liked Road Show), why wasn't Kind recast? He was extraordinary, just judging from the Bounce album.
#9The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/22/11 at 5:11pm
I've never seen Richard Kind onstage, but I've always thought his work on film and TV (even when the material's been well beneath his talents) to be stellar, and I love his work on the BOUNCE recording.
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#10The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/22/11 at 5:29pmI think it had to do with the direction in which Sondheim took the character. Gemignani played Addie as someone who completely hated his life, which seemed to be in line with the changes made in the show. Kind's performance was ebullient--the character obviously suffered from depression, but he was also so full of life at moments and genuinely blissful. He really got the character, IMO.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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#11The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/22/11 at 5:58pmI went to college with Richard, and you will never meet a sweeter, kinder, funnier or more talented man! Just never found his perfect Broadway role.
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#12The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/22/11 at 6:20pm
I've seen him twice on stage and thoroughly enjoyed him both times. His SLY was so funny and he was much more energetic than Dreyfus.
He also made a great Nathan Detroit. Incredibly funny but also warm and endearing.
Glad I got a chance to see him in something other than SPIN CITY reruns. 
#13The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/22/11 at 6:58pmI worked with Richard when he played Psuedolus in Forum and he was brilliant! The crowd loved him
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#14The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/22/11 at 9:18pm
I think his best (and possible smallest) role was in BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY
DRS and of course THE PRODUCERS are two of my very favorite musicals. I wish I had had the opportunity to see him in both... but then again I don't because Max and Andre are two of my favorite characters and Nathan and Greg are two of my favorite performers. I'm afraid I might not have the affection I have for Mr Kind if I had actually seen him... I would have hated him even if he was good *lol*
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#15The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/22/11 at 9:31pm
He was the best thing in BOUNCE.
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#16The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/22/11 at 11:05pmI agree, he was definitley the best thing about Bounce. I'd love to see him in something on Broadway soon. I heard he was great in Forum, and I can totally see him in the role.
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#17The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/23/11 at 12:16pm
Again with the Ted McGinley!
Ted McGinley joined Married With Children in its third season. It ran EIGHT MORE SEASONS.
He joined Love Boat and Happy Days long after they had already jumped the shark (literally, in the case of Happy Days).
#18The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/23/11 at 12:20pmI don't think you can have a flop curse discussion without the mention of Debra Monk.
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#19The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/23/11 at 12:26pm
I thought he was great in Candide a few years ago.
I see him at my gym a lot. :)
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#20The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/23/11 at 12:32pmWe just saw Mr. Kind in a benefit reading of short plays centered on gay marriage. One of his readings was a eulogy at the funeral for his husband of many years. He was astonishing and riveting, and took the entire audience on a trip through seemingly every emotion imaginable. And it was only a reading.
#21The Richard Kind curse?
Posted: 3/23/11 at 12:42pmAny chance of him getting cast in Phantom or Mamma Mia???
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