It's 'Scarlet' fever
Sills keeps 'mutt' in dressing room
At the Ahmanson Theater opening night party for "The Scarlet Pimpernel" Wednesday night, Douglas Sills revealed he keeps his "mutt" in his dressing room during the show.
"He knows the show’s music and knows when I’m coming back stage and gets up to greet me."
"Want a scoop?" Sills confessed he secretly yearns to play Leonard Bernstein in a one-man show that he’d like to convince Terrence McNally to write. "I’ve never told anyone that before."
Still had a ball as the Scarlet Pimpernel, adding, "If you can’t have fun doing this, it’s time for Prozac."
Co-star Amy Bodnar has fun, too, but "I’m the straight lady," she admits.
Bodnar says she likes playing Marguerite because she’s strong and takes control — especially in the sword fight.
Villain William Paul Michals says playing the bad guy "is my strong suit." A family man — his wife and two little ones accompanied him to the afterparty, the girl asleep in her stroller — Michals says, "I’m a good guy all day long." So, by night, he’s glad to put on the black hat.
Joining the Pimpernel’s band of swashbucklers at the after-party at Impresario were 500 guests including Rene Auberjonois, Theodore Bikel, David Birney, Dennis Franz, Elliot Gould, Earl Holloman, David Hyde Pierce, Doris Roberts, Rex Smith and Jo Anne Worley.
