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Broadway Legend Michael Crawford on Gene Kelly

Posted by Kelli on Dec 21, 2011 in in passing, musicals | 0 comments

For Broadway.com, Matt Wolf interviews Broadway legend (and former Phantom of the Opera) Michael Crawford. Among the topics they cover is Gene Kelly’s direction in Hello Dolly! (1969). The section citing Gene is reprinted below; the rest of the interview may be found here. Your screen role as Cornelius Hackl in Hello, Dolly! got a new burst of attention from the Oscar-winning animated film Wall-E. I suddenly had street cred! [Laughs.] I had this enquiry asking would I mind if they used...