Leonard Frey

On stage 7 productions, 16 years

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Worked with more than once8 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Cast: Zero Mostel, Maria Karnilova, Beatrice Arthur, Joanna Merlin, Austin Pendleton, Bert Convy, Julia Migenes, Michael Granger, Tanya Everett, Leonard Frey, Maurice Edwardsebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Boys ’ other most indelible character was Leonard Frey’s Harold, the birthday boy, a “pock-marked Jewish fairy” of considerable personality and menace. Frey, who’d appeared in Fiddler on the Roof , had considerably more post-Boys success than Gorman, for a while. For the screen version of Fiddler he was Oscar nominated for portraying a hu…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
• KENNETH NELSON CHEATED THE ROLE of the Boy in The Fantasticks in 1960 and perhaps went further professionally than any other Boys cast member. Leonard Frey reminisced, “It was such a beautiful moment … Ken singing ‘Soon It’s Gonna Rain’ in The Fantasticks . He was so much younger then. The stage life can really age and harden you. Me, I w…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
• “I REMEMBER HOW SURPRISED I WAS when I saw [the 1969 movie] The Magic Christian ,” said Frederick Combs, “with Leonard Frey in what amounted to a cameo as a gay vampire. I stayed to read the credits, and for Lenny’s character it said ‘Laurence Faggot,’ right above Laurence Harvey [who played Hamlet], a very unpopular actor according to an…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
• Leonard Frey did work almost continuously after Boys until his death. He’d been on Broadway in Knock, Knock, The Royal Family , and earned a Tony nomination for The National Health . After, he joined the all-star cast of Ellis Rabb’s production of The Man Who Came to Dinner (the crypto-gay title role has been essayed by myriad gay actors,…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
• The youngest cast member of Boys to die was Robert La Tourneaux, “Cowboy,” the requisite beefcake and “birthday present” for Harold (Leonard Frey). The movie’s initial print ad featured a headshot of Harold in sunglasses, cigarette dangling from his mouth, with the caption “Today is Harold’s birthday.” To the right, a headshot of La Tourn…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt

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