In 1983, the director Mike Nichols was rehearsing Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing on Broadway. The cast included Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons, Christine Baranski, Peter Gallagher, and Cynthia Nixon, then 17 years old. Stoppard had flown over from London for rehearsal. According to Hermione Lee’s magisterial new biography, the playwright had a note for Gallagher. Could his character “be more plangent?” Gallagher, panicked, looked at Nichols, who, according to Lee, said, “Fucked if I know.”In Mike Nichols: A Life, Mark Harris tells this story too. But here Stoppard directs the comment at Cynthia Nixon. “A guitar is more plangent than a trumpet,” Peter Gallagher recalls Stoppard saying. “‘It’s as if
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