Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? Hartford, an heir to the A&P supermarket empire. The original 1969 production was at the Belasco Theatre. It had nine previews and thirty-nine performances. Ron Thompson won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his 1973 theater lead performance in the play "Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?" The play enjoyed a 2002 revival at the Looking Glass Theatre in New York, where it was directed by Michael LoPorto. It is a regular on the community and school theater circuit and in acting classes. The play helped launch the career of Al Pacino, who won a Tony Award for
Evita (1996 film) title role since she could "act so beautifully through music". Lloyd Webber was wary about her singing. Since the film required the actors to sing their own parts, Madonna underwent vocal training with coach Joan Lader to increase her own confidence in singing the unusual songs, and project her voice in a much more cohesive manner. Lader noted that the singer "had to use her voice in a way she's never used it before. "Evita" is real musical theater — it's operatic, in a sense. Madonna developed an upper register that she didn't know she had." In January 1996, Madonna