Pape Quotes

(on playing Kendall Hart on "All My Children" (1970):) "I seduced my stepfather, and when he wouldn`t sleep with me, I slept with the stable boy, cried rape, and my mother stabbed him with a letter opener. Then I went to jail for perjury, burned my parents` divorce papers, and locked up my little sister. I think that was all in the first week." (New York Times, April 27, 1997)

I spent five years in England, I went over there with my mother in the show South Pacific and I just love it. I go back there three or four times a year. I joined the American airforce because the Korean war was going on at one time and I got my call up papers and I was supposed to report back to the United States and get my ass shot off in Korea which I didn`t think was a smart idea and not only that I couldn`t understand what the war was all about, I guess a lot of people could at that time but I still can`t even more than I can the Vietnam war, so anyhow I enlisted in the American airforce and I was stationed in London for four years which was pretty good because I never gave up my civilian apartment in St Johns Wood. I got married, met a Swedish girl there, we`ve been married 46 years now.

(We have only still photographs of Elvis before he appeared with the then-reigning TV variety shows run by Steve Allen and Ed Sullivan. Director Kim Hubbard, costumer Jimmy Johansmeyer and lighting designer Joel Rand Pape have studied those carefully, getting Evans up on his toes in white loafers, tilting back with microphone in hand, with all the authentic Eisenhower-era jackets and blazers. Evans doesn`t get to the white jump suit or gold lame until the second act. He dons black leather only for one number,) I Can`t Help Falling in Love With You. ... Ooh, now that`s what I`ve been waiting for. I like that.