Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 00:12:20 +0100
Subject: PUPT: No Respect!


Just thought I'd share this excerpt from a NY Times article from Fri, 6/7.
It was on the front page of the Weekend Arts Section, the start of an
article written by Peter Marks about young stand-up comics.  Read it and
weep.

*****
Mario Cantone was, at the moment confiding to 500 people that he had no
regrets about turning down a major role in a Disney musical. "Did you see
"The Lion King?"" he asked, restlessly pacing the stage of the American
Airlines Theater. "It's very good." Pause. "For a puppet show."
The crowd that filled the playhouse on West 42nd Street howled as Mr.
Cntone, a Boston-born comedian, warmed on the topic. "You can only cry so
much for a papier mache elephant," he added, refering to the dancing
creatures that Julie Taymor painstakingly designed for the musical's
opening number.
"Let me tell you why I did not do it," he continued, his dark eyes alight
with mischief. It was the prospect, he said, of a daily shellacking of
green makeup and having to manipulate a life-size puppet of Timon, the
wiseacre meercat, from behind. "If I had wanted to be a gren shadow," he
declared, his voice rising in outrage, "I would have sewn myself to Cathy
Rigby's rear end and toured with 'Peter Pan.'"
*****




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