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Remembering Broadway Legend George S. Irving From the Original ‘Oklahoma’│george s irving heat miser
The Tony-winning character actor George S. Irving, who died on December 26 at age 94, exemplified art that conceals art. Born George Irving Shelasky to a Russian Jewish immigrant family, he adopted a stage name redolent of success, following the example of the hit playwright George S. Kaufman. Apparently the last survivor of the original 1943 cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!,” Irving’s resonant baritone in the chorus was surely refined by hearing the star singer Alfred Drake in that production. An example of Irving’s vocal artistry survives from 1955 in a TV episode of “The Goldbergs.” Irving played the role of Oscar, a singing butcher in the same year that Paddy Chayefsky’s Oscar-winning film “Marty” further glamorized the yatke. Allowed to sing operetta-style music convincingly, Irving also impresses by deftly waltzing in the tiny set of the Goldberg apartment without mishap.