Again We'll Do
This
Yale Repertory
Theater
1985
Nearly six years after his last great appearance on the New York stage, Sicherman, worn out from the trials of the world of film and television, made a return. The play, Again We'll Do This. The cast, a bunch of washed-up hacks and his longtime friend and mentor Douglas Baine. Baine had been with Sicherman
from the start, and had witnessed his
terrible rise, and even more terrible fall to and from glory. Again We'll Do
This, it was widely accepted, was a last ditch effort to revive a struggling
career.
The play, mounted by the Yale Rep and directed by the prodigy Gillian MacAtell, was the story of a family in the mid 1800s, newly arrived in Minnesota from Wisconsin, and their hopes of establishing a kudzu farm. Sicherman, as a result of his incredible maturity at such a young age (he was barely eleven), played the role of the family patriarch, Big Daddy O'Tate.
"Sicherman's presence was startling." Says Gillian MacAtell. "He seemed to leap off the stage. Of course there was that night when he leaped off the stage, and that too was startling."
Of course there were problems. Miriam Mustard, who played Sicherman's wife Donna O'Tate, was never quite able to remember her lines. Said Douglas Baine in an interview with Interview Magazine, "She couldn't remember her lines. Not one of them. As the opening drew closer we could sense there was trouble. The closest she ever came was the night she substituted all her lines with those of Danny Zuko in Grease. It was the single greatest night in the history of live theater."
The show was a smash and it seemed Sicherman's star would never stop rising. More offers came than could be counted on one hand. Agent William Hugh Person of that time, "1985 was a great year for me. I had so much fun I hardly remember any of it. One thing I do know though, I never represented anyone named David Sicherman."
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