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music man; Harry Connick, Jr.(Interview)
Byline: Adam Green
According to the gifted director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall, if you want to put on a musical, "you need someone with that unabashed thing who's going to send it into the audience and belt it out to the last row of the balcony." As she gets ready to bring the 1954 musical romp The Pajama Game back to Broadway for the first time in more than 30 years, Marshall seems to have found her man in Harry Connick, Jr.
Connick, who is making his Broadway acting debut, has all the requisites: matinee-idol looks, easy_going charm, and a silky voice. He also has a gift-first widely recognized on the When Harry Met Sally . . . sound track-for making staples of the golden age of American popular music seem newly minted. "I come from the jazz tradition, where standards are the jumping-off point for improvisation," Connick says in his New Orleans drawl. "I was taught to perform every song as if it were the first time."
A child piano prodigy, Connick began pounding out "Strutting with Some Barbecue" and "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" in French Quarter blues clubs before he could shave. At eighteen, having, as he puts it, "exhausted all the opportunities" in his hometown, Connick moved to New York City. Working as a cocktail pianist, he discovered that ...
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