John Davidson joins NEVERLAND tour

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/7/17 at 11:16am

https://www.broadwayworld.com/national-tours/article/BWW-Interview-John-Davidson-Joins-FINDING-NEVERLAND-20170706

Updated On: 7/7/17 at 11:16 AM

[jtishere]

Posted: 7/7/17 at 11:49am

Lord, I had such a crush on John Davidson in The Happiest Millionaire, when it would come on late at night on the Disney Channel in the 80s and 90s. He and Lesley Ann Warren waltzing and singing "Are We Dancing?" = SWOON.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 7/7/17 at 1:44pm

The article says he'll be touring for about a year? But isn't the tour done this fall? 

[jpbran]

Posted: 7/7/17 at 2:12pm

The tour's site has dates through the end of April 2018. 

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/7/17 at 3:02pm

That's "about a year" isn't it?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/8/17 at 4:02pm

FYI:  I saw Wesley Ann Warren in a variation of the BALLROOM WITH A TWIST stage show last summer and met her afterwards. Let's be kind and say she looked and sang so much better in THE HAPPIEST MILLIONAIRE.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 7/8/17 at 5:24pm

My bad! Have friends on the tour and seems like they're all on breaks so assumed it was done. Nvm!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/8/17 at 7:38pm

Hey Ripped, wait'll you get to be my age: you get everything mixed up. The other day I spent half an our searching for car keys and they were in my pocket!

[nmartin]

Posted: 7/8/17 at 8:16pm

Dolly, I do the same thing except I end up finding them in my hand.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 7/8/17 at 8:38pm

RippedMan said: "My bad! Have friends on the tour and seems like they're all on breaks so assumed it was done. Nvm!

 

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I think they do have had this week off. I read on some FN blog that the Davies boys were enjoying their week off. 

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 7/8/17 at 11:52pm

Wow, he is such a horrible actor and such a Bland personality.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/9/17 at 1:08am

I thought he was outstanding as the Old Actor in THE FANTASTICKS but merely adequate when he took over thevrole of Bellomy a few weeks later. Privately, he admitted those same sentiments to me.

[SmoothLover]

Posted: 7/9/17 at 1:47am

I was so in love with him when he was young. I even saw him in concert! Years later I saw him in State Fair with  Andrea Mcardle and he was good. He had turned into a silver fox.

Updated On: 7/9/17 at 01:47 AM

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/9/17 at 10:29am

He hated his performance in STATE FAIR. The topic came up over lunch and he put down his fork, looked me square in the eyes and said: "Do I look like a hog farmer?". He also was critical of being cast in CAROUSEL, feeling he couldn't  come across as "bad".

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/9/17 at 1:16pm

He's incapable of delivering a convincing performance as a hog farmer simply because he thinks he doesn't look like one? 

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/9/17 at 4:28pm

No. He went on to say he was woefully miscast. People actually came to the show expecting John to be playing the boy Wayne. Instead, John was playing the boy's father--a role he felt miscast in (and not just because of his clean-cut looks) As I recall, he felt anyone playing thevrole should look a bit more "weathered". Instead, John had dimples that could be seen from the back of the house.

Updated On: 7/9/17 at 04:28 PM

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 7/9/17 at 4:58pm

It's absurd that anyone would think at that point that they were going to see John Davidson play Wayne Frake. Cripes, he was gray haired and middle aged at that point. 

That whole show was miscast from top to bottom. I mean having Donna McKechnie play the showgirl who falls in love with young Wayne made her come across like a cougar - and John was way too young to be playing Kathryn Crosby's husband! And don't get me started on Andrea McArdle as Margy...her ingenue ship had sailed at that point for her to be playing such a naive corn-fed little miss. 

That being said I did have a major crush on him via his 2 Disney films with the always sensational Lesley Ann Warren: The Happiest Millionaire and The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band! 

They made such a charismatic, adorable couple in both! 

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/9/17 at 5:23pm

For a fact:  my sister thought John would be playing Wayne. No fooling.