Nathan Lane

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658 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2 Jul

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Anyway, I read it, and it was the Nutcracker story, and in the ballet, there's a character called Drosselmeyer.

In this version, he's the character who brings the Nutcracker in the dollhouse that sets up the whole thing.

In this case, the character was Albert Einstein.

So he wanted me to play Albert Einstein.

And there were musical numbers set to Tchaikovsky themes with lyrics by Tim Rice.

Okay.

I had done the Lion King.

Anyway, I said no.

And I kept turning it down.

And then it was four weeks in Budapest.

And then finally, it was so much money, I said, well, I guess I'm going to Budapest.

Got to do it.

That is a lot of money.

And it was with, Elle Fanning was just a child actor then.

And even then you could tell, oh, this is a gifted child.

She's like Meryl Streep.

She's so much better than I am and much more professional.

And Richard E. Grant was in it, John Turow.

And it was a strange version of the Nutcracker, where instead of mice, they were rats, okay?

And Ron DiTuro played the Rat King.

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