The New York Times
Arts & Leisure
September 23, 2012
Smile and Be a Villain; Despair and Be One, Too
By PATRICK HEALY
PATRICK PAGE has dreamed of performing the title role in “Cyrano de Bergerac” on Broadway for as long as he can remember. It is his favorite play, “the greatest part ever written,” he said, and he has been in three productions of it over the past 25 years, including twice as Cyrano. But when he learned that a new Broadway revival was already committed to star a Tony Award winner, Mr. Page chose not to sulk. Instead, he sought to join the production as one of Cyrano’s antagonists, the aristocrat de Guiche. And soon the job was his, the latest in a career of villains from Richard III and Iago to, most recently, the spandex-and-foam-suited Green Goblin for 21 months in the Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.”
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