'It’s a tough balancing act, because Levant’s stock-in-trade self-deprecation about his own mental frailty was one of his selling points, often overshadowing his undeniable musical gifts.' | kerryreid
, now in a world premiere at the Goodman starring Sean Hayes. It’s 1958, and Levant is due to appear onwith Jack Paar . Paar is already unhappy that NBC is making him do a trial run of the show from Hollywood, instead of what he view as the more urbane and sophisticated world of New York. NBC president Bob Sarnoff is worried that the notoriously loose-cannon Levant will either not show up at all—or will, but loaded with not-ready-for-not-primetime one-liners.
It’s a tough balancing act, because Levant’s stock-in-trade self-deprecation about his own mental frailty was one of his selling points, often overshadowing his undeniable musical gifts. When Max reminds Levant of
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