“Will & Grace” star Sean Hayes plays comic Oscar Levant in a Broadway play that finally locates its focus in Levant’s jokes and Hayes’ bravura piano-playing of “Rhapsody in Blue.”
, Hayes said he had studied Levant’s demeanor and tone, and it is a shock to see how undone Levant’s off-screen persona is. He slurs into the folds of his jowls, he has OCD—stirring his coffee four times clockwise, then anti-clockwise. He is accompanied by a caring but also no-nonsense doctor, Alvin , while Alex Wyse plays Max, a starry-eyed production assistant, excited that an unseen Jayne Mansfield is the evening’s other guest.
What does he do for exercise, Paar asks Levant. “I stumble, then I fall into a coma.” Levant is close friends with God, he says, even if the latter has mood swings: “On the one hand he gives us Mahatma Gandhi and the polio vaccine; on the other Adolf Hitler and cartoon chipmunks that sing. Turns out he was a manic depressive.” And the notorious Arthur Miller/Marilyn Monroe joke, about her converting to Judaism for him. “Now that she’s kosher, he can eat her.
Levant loved playing Gershwin on the piano, but it also drove him crazy that none of his own compositions had become as well-known. His acclaimed playing of such classics was a torture for him; Gershwin “showed me the limits of my talent…I couldn’t compete, not with that kinda brilliance,” Levant says. Theirs was “a neurotic love affair.”Having necked another industrial dose of Demerol, it is a love Levant ultimately capitulates to.
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