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Posted by:	Chromolume 10:03 pm EST 11/19/14
In reply to:	re: lol oops. :) - garyd 09:23 pm EST 11/19/14

Colleges do it. The Boston Conservatory did a production of Follies back in 2008. They really shouldn't have. The majority of the students, as one would expect, didn't have the life experience to know how to play the material. (Granted, student productions cast youngsters as adults all the time, but when the overarching theme of the show is people looking back at themselves after 30 years, I think that's unreasonable acting material for a cast of mostly 20-year-olds.) I remember that the Hattie and the Phyllis were closest to having the sense of maturity needed to get into the roles, and to the other extreme, I remember that the Weissman resorted to some sort of embarrassingly phony "old man" walk to "define" his character. The rest of the principals learned their lines and songs but had nothing to say with them. The show also ran OVER 3 hours. Why did anyone think that show was a good choice?

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