Actually, Bob Gaynor has already done the Elvis-type role...by playing Conrad Birdie in Encores! "Bye Bye, Birdie". He also was terrific when he returned from L.A. in the workshop of "The Mancini Project" - but that never went any further awaiting Rupert Holmes' new rewrites.
P.S. Emick? - how funny. But he is going to be so terrific in "Ring of Fire" that all memories of the "All Shook Up" issue will be forgotten even as a joke (previews coming up this week in Buffalo) - and everyone will think he has been a country singer his whole life (but then, hasn't he been?). He's very much at home with country music - writes it and sings it.
One day you're Peter Allen's boyfriend, another day - you're F. Scott Fitzgerald, yet another day - just a down home country boy. All within the space of less than a year. Now THAT's talent!!!!!!!
