For most listeners, even devoted pop music fans, Rupert Holmes is known for one thing: the perennial camp classic 'Escape (The Piña Colada Song),' the quintessential distillation of the high-flying, hedonistic, swinging late '70s. It so thoroughly captured the sound and attitude of its time that it pegged Holmes as not just a one-hit wonder, but a one-trick pony, a laid-back singer/songwriter who could only chronicle tales of love and loss, often in a cornball fashion. But like Randy Newman, who for a while was pegged as a novelty songwriter or midget bigot for his fluke hit of 'Short People,' 'Escape (The Piña Colada Song)' was a misinterpreted piece of satire, and it did not come close to representing the breadth, scope, or intent of Rupert Holmes' work. Unlike Newman, who was an acclaimed and well-respected songwriter prior to 'Short People' and found his reputation relatively quickly restored afterward through his subsequent albums and work as a film composer, Holmes has never been critically rehabilitated, although he has one of the more interesting careers on the fringe of pop music. Before 'Escape' he had a number of idiosyncratic orchestral pop albums, pitched somewhere between Harry Nilsson, Jimmy Webb, and Brian Wilson, produced and written for Barbra Streisand. After he ditched his pop music career in the early '80s, he turned to Broadway, winning Tonys for his score for the The Mystery of Edwin Drood, before writing a series of mystery plays, adapting musicals for the stage and, finally, authoring novels, the first of which was turned into a film starring Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth by the acclaimed director Atom Egoyan.
Clearly, Holmes had far more to offer than 'The Piña Colada Song,' but it'd be easy for even those pop fans to think otherwise since apart from his debut Widescreen and his 1979 hit Partners in Crime, his albums never hit CD and were out of print for decades. Hip-O Select's exhaustive and immensely enjoyable box set Cast of Characters: The Rupert Holmes Songbook, containing all of eight of his studio albums and a disc of rarities, goes a long way to restoring his reputation, offering an argument that he's an intriguing '70s pop eccentric, not a predictable MOR hack. Granted, he's mildly eccentric, not nearly as odd as Newman, Nilsson, Webb or Wilson, nor is he an innovator like that quartet. Instead, Holmes is pop formalist, working within accepted conventions and offering quirky, witty takes on familiar sounds and themes. These are skills that served him well later as a mystery novelist, but they also made his pop records, particularly those recorded during the '70s, quite fascinating from both musical and lyrical standpoints.
Holmes' strangest record was his first, 1974's Widescreen, an album-long tribute to the silver screen that was appropriately cinematic in scope and indebted to Randy Newman's incorporation of Hollywood music in his own songs. An ambitious, far-reaching affair beginning with the lush title track and ending with a ten-minute radio play called Psycho Drama, it wasn't a commercial success, but his meticulous, tasteful songcraft earned the attention of Barbra Streisand, who not only covered the album's 'Widescreen' and 'Letters That Cross in the Mail' for her 1975 LP Lazy Afternoon, but hired Holmes to produce the album as well. This was enough to loosen him up for his eponymous 1975 album, a loose, funny, tremendously appealing album whose wit was at times reminiscent of Harry Nilsson's -- particularly in how he quoted several Beatles tunes in 'I Don't Want to Hold Your Hand' (à la Nilsson's wonderful 'You Can't Do That'), or how he planted his tongue firmly in his cheek for the islands anthem 'Rifles and Rum' or 'Everything's Better When You're Drunk.' On his next effort, 1977's Singles, he was deliberately gunning for a hit single, so he tried a little bit of everything, from smooth MOR ballads and pop such as the catchy 'I Don't Want to Get Over You' (later covered by Mac Davis) to the laid-back soulful pop of 'Who, What, When Were, Why' (later recorded by both Dionne Warwick and Manhattan Transfer) and the glorious, surprisingly hard-rocking 'Aw Shucks.' It wasn't a hit, but it paved the way for 1978's Pursuit of Happiness, which was caught halfway between Holmes' intent to craft a concept album about a small town and his label's desire for a genuine hit single that Singles didn't deliver. It's muddled, but not a bad album, thanks to both his more introspective tunes -- plus oddities like 'Guitars,' which is arranged for an army of acoustic guitars -- and his chart-oriented popcraft (which is not far removed from Boz Scaggs) and it did have his first charting single with 'Let's Get Crazy Tonight,' which pointed in the direction of 'Escape,' his first genuine hit and the first song on 1979's Partners in Crime. Not only did that album have commercial success, but it was the perfect blend of Holmes' wit and songcraft, where the glossy production enhanced his wry satire.
After Partners in Crime, Holmes' recorded work started to slip. Its 1980 follow-up Adventure was written and recorded quickly; it's sonically similar to Partners, but it's neither as cohesive thematically, or as successful on a track-by-track basis. A year later, he delivered Full Circle, an awkward fusion of his early-'80s soft rock and the cinematic sprawl of Widescreen, and then he slowly slid away from pop, turning his attention elsewhere -- namely the stage and novels. He recorded a comeback album called Scenario in 1994 for JVC in Japan, and while it never was released in the States, it's a thoroughly charming collection of low-key, subtle tunes.
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Hearing all these albums in this five-disc box set, it's easier to take the post-Partners in Crime slide in stride -- while Adventure and Full Circle are uneven, they are enjoyable, and their best moments can stand alongside his '70s work (Holmes' own album-by-album liner notes also help put the records in context). Similarly, the fifth disc of rarities, while playing as a clearinghouse of odds-and-ends, has plenty of terrific moments, including original demos of songs he wrote for Streisand, duets with Rita Coolidge, his demo for the Jets' 1986 hit 'You Got It All' (entitled 'You Got It All' (Over Him)',) an early version of 'Escape (The Piña Colada Song)' called 'The Law of the Jungle' which has entirely different lyrics, plus brand-new recordings of hits her wrote for the Buoys ('Timothy'), the Partridge Family ('Echo Valley 2-6809') and the Street People ('Jennifer Tomkins'), which was a studio-created group featuring Holmes on vocals. These final two discs in Cast of Characters may not be as consistently engaging as the first three, but they are certainly worth the time for anybody willing to invest in this set. And who would be willing to invest in this limited-edition, internet-only box? Well, Holmes does have legions of devoted fans, and they will surely find this worthwhile, but this could satisfy listeners with a deep appreciation for pop singer/songwriters of the '70s -- an appreciation for singer/songwriters who cherish craft over obvious eccentricities and innovation. After all, this set proves that Rupert Holmes was many, many things -- much more than what 'Escape' would suggest -- but it also proves that he was never hip; not then and not now. That will surely cut down on his chances of a revival along the lines of what Brian Wilson or Harry Nilsson have experienced over the last ten years, but anybody who has heard one or two of these albums and is curious about what else Holmes did will find that this set rewards their investment many times over. [Cast of Characters is available through Hip-O Select.com].
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Birth name | David Goldstein |
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Born | February 24, 1947 (age 72) Northwich, Cheshire, England |
Origin | Nanuet, New York, US |
Genres | Soft rock, pop rock, show tunes |
Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician, playwright, author |
Instruments | Vocals, keyboards, saxophone |
Years active | 1969–present |
Labels | Epic Records, Infinity Records, MCA Records, Elektra Records |
Website | www.rupertholmes.com |
Rupert Holmes (born David Goldstein on February 24, 1947) is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, musician, dramatist and author. He is widely known for the hit singles 'Escape (The Piña Colada Song)' (1979) and 'Him' (1980). He is also known for his musicals Drood, which earned him two Tony Awards, and Curtains, and for his television series Remember WENN.
- 1Life and career
- 2Discography
- 3Other works
Life and career[edit]
Holmes was born David Goldstein in Northwich, Cheshire, England. His father, Leonard Eliot Goldstein, was a United States Armywarrant officer and bandleader. His mother, Gwendolen Mary (nee Pynn),[1] was English, and both were musical. Holmes has dual British and American citizenship. The family moved when Holmes was six years old to the northern New York City suburb of Nanuet, New York, where Holmes grew up and attended nearby Nyack High School and then the Manhattan School of Music (majoring in clarinet). Holmes's brother, Richard, is the principal lyric baritone of the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, sings roles with regional opera companies, such as Glimmerglass, Lake George and Virginia Opera, and has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera.[2]
In 1969, Holmes married childhood friend Elizabeth 'Liza' Wood Dreifuss, an attorney. Holmes's daughter Wendy died suddenly in 1986, at the age of ten, of an undiagnosed brain tumor.[3] He has two sons, Nick and Timothy, the latter of whom has autism.
Songwriter and recording artist[edit]
In his 20s, Holmes was a session musician (producing sessions, writing and arranging songs, singing and playing a few instruments). In 1969, Holmes and Ron Dante (the Cuff Links, the Archies) recorded 'Jennifer Tomkins' for release on their second album, The Cuff Links. During the recording of that album, Dante was prohibited by the studio that produced the Archies from any involvement in new recording ventures and was forced to drop out of The Cuff Links. Holmes finished the project and released 'Jennifer Tomkins' separately under a different studio name, Street People (not related to the mid-1970s band of the same name).[4] The song was on the Billboard Hot 100 for 15 weeks, beginning January 3, 1970, reaching a peak of 36. A follow-up single called 'Thank You Girl' reached 96 on the Billboard pop charts in April 1970.
Holmes played the piano for both the Cuff Links and the Buoys,[5] with whom he had his first international hit, 'Timothy', which was on the Hot 100 for 17 weeks beginning on January 2, 1971, a No. 17 song about cannibalism that intentionally drew controversy.[6] He also wrote 'Give Up Your Guns' (which peaked at No. 84), 'The Prince of Thieves', 'Blood Knot', and 'Tomorrow' for the band. Holmes also wrote jingles and pop tunes (including for Gene Pitney, the Platters, the Drifters, Wayne Newton, Dolly Parton, Barry Manilow and television's the Partridge Family),[5][7] as well as the score of the 1970 revenge western, Five Savage Men (also known as The Animals), which starred Keenan Wynn.[8]
As a recording artist, Holmes broke through with his first album, 1974's Widescreen on Epic Records,[5] which introduced him as a presenter of highly romantic, lushly orchestrated 'story songs' that told a witty narrative punctuated by clever rhymes and a hint of comedy. Barbra Streisand discovered this album and asked to record songs from it, launching Holmes on a successful career. She then used some of his songs in the movie A Star Is Born. Holmes also arranged, conducted, and wrote songs on her 1975 album Lazy Afternoon as well as five other Streisand albums.[9] Holmes' second, self-titled album led Rolling Stone to compare him with Bob Dylan in the sense of being an artist of unprecedented originality that commanded attention.[citation needed]
Holmes' production skills were also in demand during this period, and he took on this role for Lynsey de Paul on her album Tigers and Fireflies, which spawned the radio hit 'Hollywood Romance'. The album also featured a song, the bluesy 'Twas', co-written by the two. He additionally produced Sparks' 1976 LP, Big Beat, though the album was not a success. In 1975, together with Jeffrey Lesser, Holmes produced the UK band Sailor's album Trouble (CBS Epic).[10][11]
'Escape (The Piña Colada Song)' was included on Holmes' fifth album, Partners in Crime, and was the final Hot 100 #1 of 1979. Another popular song on that album was 'Him', which peaked at number 6 on the Hot 100. He had another top-40 hit with 'Answering Machine'. In 1986, Holmes's composition 'You Got It All' (sometimes called 'You Got It All Over Him') was a top 3 hit single for The Jets and was later recorded by pop superstar Britney Spears and featured in her internationally released version of Oops!.. I Did It Again (2000). He also produced two songs for singer Judy Collins that appeared on her album Sanity and Grace.[citation needed] His song 'The People That You Never Get to Love' was featured on four albums by Susannah McCorkleThe People That You Never Get to Love (1981), From Bessie to Brazil (1993), Most Requested Songs (2001), and Ballad Essentials (2002). Frank Sinatra, Jr. also recorded the tune on his That Face! album (2006).
In the 1980s and 1990s, Holmes also played in cabarets and comedy clubs, mostly in New York City, telling often autobiographical anecdotes illustrated with his songs.[12] In a 2016 episode of the TV show Better Call Saul, Jimmy says that he is making a documentary about Holmes and sings part of 'Escape'.[13]
Playwright[edit]
Holmes made his professional debut as a playwright with the musicalThe Mystery of Edwin Drood, later known as Drood, in 1985. He was encouraged to write a musical by Joseph Papp and his wife after they attended one of Holmes's cabarets in 1983. The result, loosely based on the Charles Dickensunfinished novel, and inspired by Holmes's memories of English pantomime shows he attended as a child, was a hit in New York's Central Park and on Broadway. Because Dickens left the novel unfinished at his death, Holmes employed the unusual device of providing alternate endings for each character who is suspected of the murder, and letting the audience vote on a different murderer each night. The show earned Holmes the Tony Award for both book and score, as well as the Drama Desk Awards for lyrics, music, the book and orchestrations, among various other honors. The musical has been given London and Broadway revivals, among others. The success of Drood would lead Holmes to write other plays (both musical and non-) in later years, though he has stated that he avoided musical theater for some time after the death of his daughter.
Holmes also wrote the Tony Award-nominated ('Best Play 2003') Say Goodnight, Gracie, based on the relationship between George Burns and Gracie Allen. The play, which starred Frank Gorshin, was that Broadway season's longest running play and the third longest-running solo-performance show in Broadway history.[14] He wrote the comedy-thriller Accomplice in 1990, which was the second of Holmes's plays to receive an Edgar Award (following Drood). Holmes has written a number of other shows, including Solitary Confinement, which played on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre in 1992[15] and set a new Kennedy Center box office record before its Broadway run; Thumbs, the most successful play in the history of the Helen Hayes Theatre Company; and the musical Marty (2002), starring John C. Reilly.[16] He wrote the book to Swango: The Theatrical Dance Experience, a swing-tango dance piece that premiered Off-Broadway in 2002 inspired by Romeo and Juliet.[17] It has had several revivals.[18][19] Holmes joined the creative team of the musical Curtains after the deaths of both Peter Stone (the original book-writer) and Fred Ebb (the lyricist). Holmes rewrote Stone's original book and contributed additional lyrics to the Kander and Ebb songs. Curtains played at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Broadway, and David Hyde Pierce and Debra Monk starred in the lead roles. Holmes and Peter Stone (posthumously) won the 2007 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical for Curtains.
Holmes wrote the book of the musical The First Wives' Club, adapted from the film of the same name. The musical premiered at The Old Globe Theater in San Diego, California in 2009.[20] Its score is by Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland and Eddie Holland.[21][22] The production received generally unenthusiastic reviews but sold well.[23] A new book was written by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, and the reworked show opened in Chicago in 2015.[24] Holmes next wrote the book for a jukebox musical, Robin and the 7 Hoods, inspired by the 1964 film of the same name starring Frank Sinatra, with a new story line that Holmes set in the Mad Men era of 1962. Songs are by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, including 'My Kind of Town'. A production ran in 2010, also at the Old Globe. Casey Nicholaw directed and choreographed. The story is about a likable gangster hoping to get out of the crime business. A do-gooding TV reporter likens him to a modern-day Robin Hood.[25][26]
Holmes adapted the John Grisham novel and film of A Time to Kill for the stage. The play premiered at the Arena Stage, Washington, DC, in 2011.[27] The courtroom drama, set against a background of evolving 1980s Southern racial politics, was called 'funny, shocking, witty, and sly'.[28] He wrote the book and lyrics for The Nutty Professor, a musical based on the 1963 film of the same name. Marvin Hamlisch wrote the score. The musical was directed by Jerry Lewis and premiered in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2012.[29][30] With Hamlisch, he also wrote songs for the 2013 Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra.[19] He next wrote the book of Secondhand Lions: A New Musical, which premiered in Seattle, Washington, in 2013.[19]A Time to Kill was produced on Broadway, but lasted only four weeks plus previews, closing on November 17, 2013.[31]
Television writer and novelist[edit]
In 1996, Holmes created the television series Remember WENN for American Movie Classics, writing the theme song and all 56 episodes of that series. In 2003, he published his first novel, Where the Truth Lies (later adapted into a film of the same name by Atom Egoyan), followed in 2005 by Swing, a multimedia release combining a novel with a music CD providing clues to the mystery. He is working on another novel, The McMasters Guide to Homicide: Murder Your Employer.[19]
Discography[edit]
Albums[edit]
Does not include others' collections or albums released without Holmes's participation:
- Widescreen. 1974 (Epic: KE 32864 or AL 32864)
- Rupert Holmes. 1975 (Epic: KE33443)
- Singles. 1976 (Epic: 34288)
- Pursuit of Happiness. 1978 (Private Stock/MCA: MCA 3241)
- Partners in Crime. 1979 (Infinity/MCA: INF 9020)
- Adventure. 1980 (MCA: 5129)
- Full Circle. 1981 (Elektra: P-11086E)
- Scenario. 1994 (Victor: VICP-5469)
- Epoch Collection. 1994 (Varese Sarabande: VSD-5520)
- Widescreen (Re-Issue). 1995 (Varese Sarabande: VSD-5545)
- The Best of Rupert Holmes. 1998 (Half Moon/Universal: HMNCD 037)
- Rupert Holmes / Greatest Hits. 2000 (Hip-O /Universal: 314 541 557-2)
- Widescreen – The Collector's Edition. 2001 (Fynsworth Alley: 302 062 1162) (with eleven cuts not previously released).
- Cast of Characters – The Rupert Holmes Songbook. 2005 (Hip-O Select/Universal: B0004263-02) [Box set with previously unreleased tracks.]
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Original Broadway Cast Recording. Polygram
Holmes also wrote and co-produced, and was a keyboardist on, the songs on the disco album Shobizz, released in 1979 by Capitol Records. He also featured as a vocalist on the 1983 album Lake Freeze - The Raccoons Songtrack by The Raccoons.
Singles[edit]
Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||
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US Hot 100 | US AC | CAN | NED | NZ | UK[32] | ||||
1974 | 'Terminal' | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Widescreen | |
'Talk' | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
'Our National Pastime' | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
1975 | 'I Don't Want To Hold Your Hand' | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Rupert Holmes | |
'Deco Lady' | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
1976 | 'Weekend Lover' | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Singles | |
'Who, What, When, Where, Why' | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
1978 | 'Bedside Companions' | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Pursuit of Happiness | |
'Let's Get Crazy Tonight' | 72 | -- | 59 | -- | -- | -- | |||
1979 | 'Escape (The Piña Colada Song)' | 1 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 23 | Partners in Crime | |
1980 | 'Him' | 6 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 8 | 31 | ||
'Answering Machine' | 32 | 12 | 85 | -- | -- | -- | |||
'Morning Man' | 68 | 21 | -- | -- | -- | -- | Adventure | ||
1981 | 'Blackjack' | 103 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
'I Don't Need You' | 56 | 21 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
'Loved By The One You Love' | 103 | 35 | -- | -- | -- | -- | Full Circle | ||
1982 | 'The End' | -- | 31 | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
'–' denotes releases that did not chart |
Other works[edit]
Rupert Holmes Answering Machine
Theatre[edit]
| Film and television projects[edit]
Books[edit]
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Notes[edit]
- ^'Rupert Holmes Biography (1947–)', FilmReference.com, accessed June 7, 2013
- ^'Richard Holmes: Baritone', OperaMusica.com; and Heath, Mary Jo. ' Backstage Spotlight: Richard Holmes', MetOpera.org, November 1, 2016
- ^'You Got It All by The Jets'. Songfacts. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ^Jennifer Tomkins', The Street People, video.aol.com
- ^ abcSummers, Kim. Rupert Holmes: Biography. AllMusic, accessed April 6, 2011
- ^Timothy at Songfacts, accessed 12 January 2009
- ^Minnick, Susan L. Rupert Homes biography at the IMDB website
- ^Five Savage Men, RupertHolmes.com, accessed May 16, 2015
- ^Feature on Curtains at the Total Theatre website
- ^McCarraher, James. A Glass of Champagne, The Official Sailor Story, Sarum Press (2004)
- ^Trouble, Sailor Club, accessed December 29, 2012
- ^Holden, Stephen. 'Review/Cabaret; Rupert Holmes Onstage', The New York Times, August 3, 1990, p. 17
- ^Potts, Kimberly. 'Better Call Saul First Look: 'The Piña Colada Song' Saves Jimmy's Hide', Yahoo.com, April 8, 2016, accessed July 16, 2017
- ^Gioia, Michael. 'Joel Rooks Will Say Goodnight Gracie at Off-Broadway's St. Luke's', Playbill.com, September 14, 2011
- ^Gussow, Mel. 'The Manipulations of a Villain Trapped In His Own Devices',The New York Times, November 9, 1992
- ^Review of the Boston production of Marty Playbill (2003)
- ^'Swinging Summer', The Village Voice, September 3, 2002
- ^'In Swango, This Time Opposites Don't Attract', The New York Times, June 15, 2003; and Parks, Steve. 'In lively competition, swing vs. tango rocks', Newsday, May 13, 2005
- ^ abcd'SWANGO to Play Schimmel Center, 10/15–17', BroadwayWorld.com, September 10, 2015
- ^Jones, Kenneth. 'Musical First Wives Club Will Now Convene July 17 Toward July 31 Opening'. Playbill.com, June 1, 2009
- ^Hebert, James. 'Globe to be first to stage musical First Wives Club'. The San Diego Union-Tribune, September 5, 2008
- ^Gans, Andrew. 'Ziemba, Lenox and Walsh to Star in Old Globe's First Wives Club'. Playbill.com, May 15, 2009; and 'Tell Us, Miss Jones: Sheryl Lee Ralph Will Be Part of First Wives Club'Archived 2009-06-19 at the Wayback Machine. Playbill.com, June 16, 2009
- ^'Critics have issues with First Wives'. Variety, August 3, 2009
- ^Jones, Chris. 'Not so sweet revenge in pre-Broadway First Wives Club', Chicago Tribune, March 12, 2015
- ^Stevens, Rob. 'Review: Robin and the 7 Hoods'. TheaterMania, August 2, 2010
- ^Jones, Kenneth. 'Playbill.com's Brief Encounter with Rupert Holmes'. Playbill.com, August 16, 2010
- ^Jones, Kenneth. 'A Time to Kill, with Sebastian Arcelus, Dion Graham, Erin Davie, Begins World Premiere in DC'Archived 2011-05-30 at the Wayback Machine. Playbill.com, May 6, 2011
- ^Ponick, Terry. 'A Time to Kill', DCTheatreScene, May 26, 2011
- ^Jones, Kenneth. 'Producers of Nutty Professor Hope to Earn Broadway Tenure for New Marvin Hamlisch-Rupert Holmes Show'Archived 2012-08-19 at the Wayback Machine, Playbill, August 17, 2012, accessed August 19, 2013
- ^Ng, David (2012-08-02). 'Jerry Lewis' 'Nutty Professor' musical opens in Nashville'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
- ^Isherwood, Charles. 'Grisham's Tale Retold Onstage', The New York Times, October 20, 2013, updated November 17, 2013, accessed April 22, 2017
- ^Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 258. ISBN1-904994-10-5.
References[edit]
- Gordon, Meryl. 'Escape From Piña Coladaville',New York Magazine interview (August 11, 2003), pp. 42–45, 88
- Gilbert Gottfried Amazing Colossal Podcast, interview (2017)
External links[edit]
- Rupert Holmes on IMDb
- Rupert Holmes at the Internet Broadway Database
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