There Was Something in the Plein-Air
Los Angeles Times
Star Turn for SCR: Besides headlining South Coast Repertory's recent 35th-anniversary bash, Broadway star Douglas Sills has agreed to be honorary chairman of the Tony Award-winning theater's upcoming Friends' Campaign.
The annual drive seeks to attract donors who will give a minimum of $50 annually to the theater. The 1999-2000 campaign has a goal of $720,000--38% of SCR's $1.9-million operating fund.
Sills--who has appeared at SCR in "The Philadelphia Story" and "She Stoops to Folly"--finished his Tony nominated role in "The Scarlet Pimpernel" in June.
Performing 8 times a week at the Neil Simon Theatre was "exhilarating but exhausting," Sills said during a recent telephone interview from his home in Los Angeles.
Appearing on Broadway is "like getting into a club that you've wanted to get into for a long time; every kid dreams about Broadway when his head is on the pillow," he added.
Broadway not only lived up to his expectations, it exceeded them, Sills said. "It was as exciting as the greatest roller-coaster ride and as fulfilling as a conversation with the Dalai Lama."
Watch for Sills--who resembles a young Harrison Ford--at upcoming SCR social events.
Friends' information: (714) 708-5500.
-Ann Conway, Los Angeles Times
July 20, 1999
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