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Any plays you’ve always wanted to do? I always hoped that I could do Les Miserables on the mountain, but it’s never been released and it probably won’t be for a long time. You have to get permission to do plays, and pay royalties, and you can only get them when they release them. I was in London over the holidays and I went to see Les Miz again, 25 years after I ďŹ rst saw it. There wasn’t an empty seat in the house. So that’s the show I’ve always wanted to do but I don’t think I’ll ever get to do it. Do you have any advice for your successor at the Mountain Play? [pauses] Honor the mountain. And honor the community. < Email Jill at jill-kramer@comcast.net.

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Is there anything you haven’t done yet that you would like to do? My vocation and my avocation is theater. I have never in my adult life said, thank God it’s Friday. You don’t know what day of the week it is when you’re in the theater. Every day is exciting. A new play presents new challenges. You work with new people all the time. So any time I’m working on a play it’s always the most exciting thing I’m doing.

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Have you ever gotten the bug to go to New York? I was guest director at the Julliard School because I knew John Houseman and he invited me to come there. And it was fun. I was there for a semester, I think it was 1971. That was my only professional work in New York. To really be honest with you, I was too concerned with

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Do you ever work with a contemporary playwright these days? I haven’t worked with a playwright in quite some time. Some playwrights don’t understand the process of working with actors. When an actor says, “That doesn’t sound right to me, it doesn’t feel right,� you go to the playwright and you say, my actor’s having trouble with this line, what do you think you can do with it? If the playwright is sharp, they’ll say, oh, yeah, I see, and just change it. Sometimes they don’t, and you have problems. Some writers think every word, every apostrophe is sacrosanct. And it isn’t. There are things you have to be able to do onstage and some playwrights don’t understand that. But a playwright that comes from a theater background does. A lot of playwrights have been actors or directors themselves, and they understand the necessities of the theater.

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