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From: jdia@ur-tut.UUCP (jdia)
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Subject: Re: Tom Baker on stage as Holmes
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 17:57:29 EDT
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Fellow Whovians...

In article <307@pedsgd.UUCP> bobh@pedsgd.UUCP (Bob Halloran) writes:
>Excerpted from the NYTimes of Tues, 8 October:
>
>>Dublin - A new play by Hugh Leonard, "The Mask of Moriarty", a spoof on
>>Sherlock Holmes, has opened at the Dublin Theater Festival to generally
>>favorable reviews.
>>
>>The play opened last weeek at the Dublin Gate Theater and stars Tom Baker,
>>who played Doctor Who in the British television series, as Holmes.  In the
>>play, Holmes is again at the center of a murder mystery, but is also the
>>target of the playwright's irreverence.  So is Holmes's loyal friend and
>>chronicler, Dr. Watson, who appears in drag in two scenes.
>> 
>>The Irish Times considered the opening scenes the funniest that Mr. Leonard
>>has written, but noted a falling off in the second act.  "No doubt something
>>can and will be done to bring comic life back to that long sag", it said.
>>"If so, Mr. Leonard will have a crazily comic and carefully written
>>international hit on his hands."
>>
>>In the 26 years of the Dublin Theater Festival, Mr. Leonard has contributed
>>18 plays, including his early adaptation from the writing of James Joyce,
>>"Stephen D", and "Da", which went on to become a Tony Award-winning Broadway
>>hit.
>
>Tom Baker on Broadway as Holmes, anyone?
>
>						Bob Halloran
>						Sr MTS, Perkin-Elmer DSG


Hoorah for T.B. as Holmes!!!

I too have come across Tom Baker playing Holmes. The other night, I was
watching a production of The Hound of the Baskervilles which is being
run on the cable tv Arts&Entertainment channel.

It took only 30 seconds to notice that Holmes was being played by none
other than the Doctor with a cloak substituted for the trench-coat and
short slicked down hair replacing the familiar bush.

Not surprisingly, T.B. makes a superb Sherlock Holmes.  His manner was
absolutely perfect for the role.  My only problem is that I kept expecting
him to step into a police box and discover it to actually be the TARDIS.
Oh well...

Actually, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Holmes turned out to be the
Doctor gone back to London in the 1800's. Wouldn't that be novel.

                                                Josh Diamond
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