Micky Dolenz has long been (and, of course, always will be) associated with his part in the Monkees. But he’s actually had a lengthier association with another character, even if he’ll always be the drummer in the Monkees — a role he played over just 58 episodes between September 1966 and March 1968.
“At the time, it was sort of a blur — because it was a very, very short period of time,” Micky Dolenz said, during an on-stage Q&A session.
How short? Micky Dolenz had a lengthier run with one of his key stage roles.
“I was doing a musical on Broadway called ‘Aida,'” he adds, “and I had been doing that for the best part of a year or more, on the road and on Broadway. So, I was in my dressing room, adding up all of the performances that I’d done, eight shows a week for so many months, and it turned out that I worked on ‘Aida’ longer than I worked on the Monkees. It was a very, very short period of time.”
In fact, over that whirlwind period of filming television episodes and touring in the Monkees’ original incarnation, Micky Dolenz says most of it has tended to blend together.
“There was this hurricane of stuff going on,” he adds, “so to me, it’s kind of one long memory. I don’t remember individual episodes; I remember people — when people came in the episodes, like Rose Marie or Stan Freberg (in the great “Monkee vs. Machine”), and some of the people on the crew and the production.”
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