People

By Sara C. Medina

Critics and viewers alike have hailed it as the best movie musical ever made. Now two of its biggest fans, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor, plan to add up the magic numbers of their 34-year-old MGM hit, Singin' in the Rain, plus many others, during an eight-month tour of the U.S., Britain and Australia beginning next winter. Reynolds, who has been touring with her own show on the variety circuit, phoned O'Connor, who had been appearing in a nostalgia-trip revival of Showboat, and the two tried out their act in a smash stint three months ago in Atlantic City. Their 1 1/2-hour show will cover four decades of music, from Singin' through today's hits, but, says O'Connor, 60, "we don't try to be young. We just think young. I wouldn't compete with the me of 30 years ago, but I don't have to." As for sashaying toward her seventh decade, says Reynolds, 54: "You don't stop dancing. It's too much fun."