All David Hyde Pierce has to step on the stage, and he clashes, before he launches the idiom from “The Pirates of Penns”:
I am a model of modern major general,
I give vegetables, animals and mineral information,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the quarrel historically
From marathon to waterloo, classified in order
Practically there is no expression on his face, far, all kinds of uproar around him, that is funny,
I asked, “Why do you think ‘less is more’ can be funny?”
“Well, I think there is a lot about the theater, okay, more,” Pierce replied. “Sometimes, someone who is unexpected in the theater is doing less.”
“Is there an temptation to overact?”
“Always,” he said. “You remind me of a great line from ‘Frasier’, which was, ‘If less is more, think how much will be more!” ,
This TV is thanks to his 11-year run on the mega-hit “Frasier” that Pierce is recognized, and can take the risk of choosing and choosing his roles. He is prominent in “Pirates! The Penns Musical”, a Jazi re -working of Gilbert and Sulivan Classic, which has been transplanted to New Orleans.
Pierce showed us one of the Gilbert and Sulivan scores from his summer camp since the 1970s (“it is almost as old as I am”), which was also a score used for an episode of “Fragier”, where he, Kelsey Grammar and David Ogden Stears sung from “Penns”.
I asked, “Gilbert and Sulivan what do you mean to you?”
“Hmm. Okay, it must be something,” because it is … I am emotional, “Pierce replied. “Thinking about the question, I think it’s just, it’s just because it has been threaded for so long through my life.”
In the roundabout theater in his dressing room, the wall is covered with pictures of those who were earlier in the dressing room: “Famous people, many of them are my dear friends,” he said. “I will eventually be there. The tradition is very important to us. It is being known that you are part of something big.”
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Pierce’s “Pirates” dressing room is filled with emotional touchstone, which defines him, which includes one of the most important: he was talking to his father about a show from his father, “At a time when I didn’t even know what I was doing, I didn’t know what I was ahead,” he said.
Pierce’s father and his grandfather were amateur artists. “The disease walks into the family,” he said. “I don’t know yet, I think!”
He became a concert pianist. He still plays every day, but decided to become an actor instead of being a student in Yale.
And did you bring him into comedy? Pierce said, “I think what I have to do that was attracted to me.” I saw the ‘The Dick Van Dike Show’ and ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ and ‘All in the Family’. When I was a teenager, ‘Monty Python’s flying circus’ came on American television on PBS, and my head blown me.
It is not impossible to see the indication of Buster Keaton in Pierce’s famous ironing board scene from “Frazier”:
Pierce said, “I want people to laugh.”
“Why? What do you mean? Why is it important?”
“I think this is the notion of connection,” he said. “For example, doing a comic film is not pleasant for me to play comic. In a comic play, you feel the audience from connection. That’s what I am for it. This is the place where I have started. I like it.”
As long as he is in it, his partner, her husband, actor’s author Briana Haragrove has been, since 2008. They met in an audition, became friends, and only later revealed that they were both gay. “Bryan prepared me for dinner in his apartment to do his taxes,” Pierce said.
“I used to do a tax business as well as an actor,” said Hargrove.
“This is not a metaphor; it was really what he was doing. Tax businessmen! And then we were going to see the film, and it came up. We went back to his apartment, and then, as Bryan calls it, I never left.”
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It was in 1983. It was Hargrove who suggested to go to California, due to which Pierce with Kelsey Grammar in “Fragier”. Niles were inserted as cranes. Forty years, four Emmi and two tons later, they opted not to be in the “Frazier” reboot. At that time he was playing on Julia Child’s husband, Paul, HBO. Pierce said, “I am very happy what has come to me originally, and then when I am able to make an option in my career and whatever choices I have made,” Pierce said. “My creativity is fuel from change and diversity.”
This is why David Hyde Pierce said yes to “pirates” – and people a new chance to laugh in one of their older favorite.
For my military knowledge, although I am clear and courageous,
Only brought in the beginning of the century;
But still, in vegetables, animals and mineral cases,
I am a model of a modern major general!
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Story produced by Robert Marasteon. Editor: Ed Givenish.
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