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Article: Quinn makes final tour as `Zorba' // At 70, actor retains his passions
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 20, 1986
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NEW YORK Anthony Rudolph Oaxaca Quinn, a virile monument to mind
over such earthly matters as age, was packing his bags for still
another tour of the popular musical, "Zorba." This tour will be his
last, he vowed.
Surrounded by the dramatic sculptures and paintings he has
created as his life's second vocation, Anthony Quinn was cheerful
about the prospect of spending eight more grueling months in his most
famous role of screen and stage - Zorba the Greek, the wise peasant
with an enormous appetite for life.
The lusty musical by the "Cabaret" team of John Kander and Fred
Ebb is based on Quinn's 1964 movie and the original novel by Nikos
Kazantzakis. The show will open tonight and ...