Winter GuestsFortunately the debut screening of The Winter Guest was not cursed with the same misfortune as the play upon which the film was based:
As the Fortean Times once explained, "after the world premiere at England's Leeds Playhouse of The Winter Guest, a play featuring a community cut off by a blizzard, the audience found themselves snowbound and were put up for the night in the theater."
[In a similarly ironic twist of fate, several performances of "Wait Until Dark" at Rochester's Meadow Brook Theater were cancelled one weekend in 2003... because of a power shortage.]
[Trivia: Rickman earned a credit for his role as Hans Gruber in Die Hard With a Vengeance - even though all of his scenes were cut from the film.]
Rickman, Alan Sidney Patrick (1946- ) British actor and director [noted for his roles in such
films as
Die Hard (1988),
Quigley Down Under (1990),
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991),
Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991),
Bob Roberts (1992),
Mesmer (1994),
Standing Room Only (2002),
Love Actually (2003), and the
Harry Potter films (as Severus Snape)]
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