Today sees the final performance of La Bête in London! Here are some pics of Mark Rylance and David lounging outside the play’s London home during a TV shoot last week. They were tweeted by the play’s official Twitter account, LaBetePlay.
His musical ones, at least! David was featured on BBC Radio 3′s Private Passions programme this morning, during which he talked about and played his favourite classical music pieces. There was also some chat about La Bête and his career.
Go HERE to listen to the show on BBC iPlayer – it should be available for the next week – or download our MP3 version on Megaupload (large file alert!).
The official La Bête website now features links to its social media outlets on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The Facebook page features this photo of the marquee at the Music Box theatre in New York, where the play will open on 23 September:
Love the yellow lettering. Also, only two weeks left to catch the show in London!
David Hyde Pierce is both an Anglophile and a great lover of music – he originally hoped to be a concert pianist. He tells Michael Berkeley that he has compiled a list of music in homage to England, beginning with the Overture to HMS Pinafore, a show which he directed as a student. His love of the English cathedral tradition is reflected in Parry’s anthem I Was Glad and his final choice, Louis Vierne’s Carillon de Westminster, for organ. There’s also Rosalyn Tureck playing Bach and David’s friend Stephen Hough playing a Mendelssohn piano concerto, as well as an extract from Berlioz’s Beatrice et Benedict, conducted by Sir Colin Davis, in which David himself acted.
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When life is getting a bit much – when you are surrounded by electricians gouging holes in your walls and filling your house with plaster and rubble in the name of rewiring, three weeks after they said they would be nothing more than a dusty, biscuit-munching memory, for not completely random example; when your cat is ill, your neighbour has been burgled and your husband’s idea of helping is to tear recipes out of magazines and suggest that you cook him something called crab linguine – there is always one place you can turn to soothe the troubled soul. And that place is 1901 Elliott Bay Towers. It’s where Frasier (Comedy Central, daily) lives. Continued…
David will feature on a new CD of songs from PS Classics, called Love On a Summer Afternoon: Songs of Sam Davis, alongside several male Broadway vocalists including Christopher Sieber, Jason Danieley, Malcolm Gets and Edward Hibbert.
The album is expected to be released in early November. Read more details at Playbill.
DHP.org is an unofficial fansite dedicated to the comic genius that is David Hyde Pierce. Contact us at dhp.org@gmail.com (but bear in mind we can’t put you in touch with DHP!)
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David will feature on a new CD of songs from PS Classics, called 
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