48 years later, a correction

A listing of credits on April 28, 1960, with a theater review of “West Side Story” on its return to the Winter Garden theater, misstated the surname of the actor who played Action. He is George Liker, not Johnson. (Mr. Liker, who hopes to audition for a role in a Broadway revival of the show planned for February, brought the error to The Times’s attention last month.) Link

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This entry was written by Craig Silverman, posted on August 13, 2008 at 8:00 am, filed under Newspapers and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Baylink
    Posted August 14, 2008 at 2:15 pm | Permalink

    If I’m reading your quote correctly, the credits were for the 48 year old performance, but they were composed currently, in association with the article about the re-mounting of the show. I can’t imagine how an actor not yet born would otherwise have his name in those credits.

    Therefore, the error itself isn’t actually 48 years old.

    Thanks for the heads up, though; yet another show I gotta fly up and see…

  2. Charlene
    Posted August 14, 2008 at 11:10 pm | Permalink

    I think you’re wrong, Baylink: George Liker did appear in the 1960 performance, according to the Internet Broadway Database.

    http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=99644

    It sounds like he simply wants to perform in the new production as well, but was concerned that management wouldn’t realize he did if his part was credited to someone else in such an august source as the Times.

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