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re: why Richard became Bud

Posted by:	ilw 08:57 am EST 12/04/13
In reply to:	re: HUNTER FOSTER JOINS THE CAST OF THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY - Deirdre 07:55 am EST 12/04/13

My guess is that it was a choice that Marsha Norman made when she adapted the novel. In an essay about the craft of playwriting, she gives a list of rules, one of which is: "Don’t give two characters names that start with the same letter." I assume she followed her own rule and didn't want to have a Robert and a Richard in the same show.

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