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Getting Lucky with Waiting for Godot's John Glover

In 1966 John Glover did what most aspiring actors do: scrounged together some cash and moved to New York City. It was a different town then. Glover’s first apartment, a sprawling loft in TriBeCa (“before it was called TriBeCa”), cost just $400 a month. The actor could nab orchestra seats on Broadway for just $7.50. There were no reality TV stars, no bullet trains to success, just work—and Glover, along with a generation of future stars including Meryl Streep, Patti LuPone, Tovah Feldshuh and Glover’s current co-star, John Goodman, did it, scraping by on paltry wages and long hours. During this time, Glover played Estragon in a tiny regional production of Waiting for Godot, the tragicomic Beckett piece that totally befuddled Glover. “I had no idea what it was about,” he says sitting in his Studio 54 dressing room, where the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway revival of the show has earned Glover, already a Tony winner, another nomination for his portrayal of Lucky. “I didn’t know an
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