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| hey, i was in BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 07:57 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: Independence Day Musicals - bearcat 04:17 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| My high school did it in 1976, for the Bicentennial because 1776 doesn't have enough roles for girls. And our director was a friend of Sidney Michaels, who saw our production. Still cool, after all these years! Love that show,,for all its flaws. Laura |
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| Posted by: AlanScott 09:03 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: hey, i was in BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS - showtunetrivia 07:57 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| Ah, that's the second post-Broadway production of that show that I have heard about. Neat to have been in one of the few productions of the show. I doubt there have been many others. :) | |
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| Posted by: StageDoorJohnny 12:29 am EDT 07/04/17 | |
| In reply to: re: hey, i was in BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS - AlanScott 09:03 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| there was an Encores style staged reading in LA in either 2010 or 2011 which was delightful. Susan Watson was in attendance as was the son of Mark Sandrich | |
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| Posted by: bearcat 08:54 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: hey, i was in BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS - showtunetrivia 07:57 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| wow-did you have a favorite song? | |
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| yes, but you won't know it! | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 09:37 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: re: hey, i was in BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS - bearcat 08:54 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| As I said, our school's drama director (a wonderful character actress named Juliet Rohde--her son Joe has been a lead Imagineer for Disney for years) knew Sidney Michaels. He gave us a chorus number called "Minute Minuet" which had been cut. So I got to dance (badly-I am such a klutz) in 18th century dress, with a replica of the Boston Tea Party on my elaborate wig. All us French ladies were showing our support for M. Franklin and his dashing American rebels. So despite the terrors of dancing with a toy ship on my head, that was my fave, along with "A Balloon is Ascending," because I was onstage the longest in them. :) And you guys all thought I was merely a nerdy historian from Los Angeles! Laura |
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| still looking for those lyrics | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 01:35 pm EDT 07/06/17 | |
| In reply to: yes, but you won't know it! - showtunetrivia 09:37 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| Pawed through old box of high school antiquities, but can't find the right theatre stuff. Scary pictures of mid-seventies hair and dress, though. I did find a program for a short play we did called JULIET IN MANUTA, a kind of alternate history in which R&J survive,,and turn into a suburban couple with issues. Wow. Laura, time traveling |
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| Posted by: Chromolume 08:39 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: hey, i was in BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS - showtunetrivia 07:57 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| Ha! My 6th grade class did 1776 for the Bicentennial, cross-gender casting and all. I auditioned with the hopes of playing Adams - I got to play the piano, lol. (Which, believe me, was absolutely thrilling!) Franklin and even Jefferson were girls - Lee was the girl who lived at the end of my block. We cut the show down, of course - no Molasses, no Cool Considerate Men...and some of the most sexual lines were cut or changed - but still we did it. And still, for all the wonderfully bad school theatre I have done lol, it's one such production I'm intensely proud of having been a part of. ;-) | |
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| Posted by: showtunetrivia 09:41 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: re: hey, i was in BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS - Chromolume 08:39 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| That's awesome! What great memories, Chromolume. And kudos to your daring teacher,,too! Laura |
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| Posted by: mermaniac 11:52 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: re: hey, i was in BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS - showtunetrivia 09:41 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| Can I chime in here ? (Shades of "Kean" !) John Adams was always my dream role. I was cast in it in Bay Ridge in the early 80s, but the show was cancelled, because we couldn't get all those men ! BUT - in 1990 in a revue in Sheepshead Bay, I got to do "Is Anybody There ?" My Mom saw it and when I asked how she liked my John Adams, she said: "Well, dear, I can't forget William Daniels." Bonus: at band rehearsal, the gal who was doing "Rose's Turn" was out, so my friend the director said: "Get up there and do it !" When I finished, someone said: "You should be doing it in the show !" Yes, showtunetrivia, great memories ! | |
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| Posted by: bearcat 08:56 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: re: hey, i was in BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS - Chromolume 08:39 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| what year (if you want to say). what was the most salacious line inclined (did you sleep well, did you lie comfortably?) retained ("for the boozin' and the whorin'") just wondering |
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| Posted by: Chromolume 09:22 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: re: hey, i was in BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS - bearcat 08:56 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| I did say we did it for the Bicentennial, lol - that would be 1976. I'm pretty sure we kept the boozin'/whorin' line. Hopkins got to drink all his rum (until he was cut off, of course). "Virility/sexual combustibility" was there. Saltpeter remained, though of course it's not used as a sexual reference in the show. (We didn't do that "Compliments" reprise near the end of the show, probably because we didn't have that music - we only had the published vocal selections book for music.) I don't remember how many innuendos were kept in the Martha scene, but I'm sure some were cut. I do remember this, though. We did 2 performances - one during the school day for the students, and one at night for the parents/community/etc. We had been leaving out the "and may my wife refuse my bed" lyric in "The Lees Of Old Virginia" - but I remember my friend who played Lee - that girl who lived down the street - asked the director if she could put the lyric back in for the adult evening performance. The answer was no. ;-) Another fun story about the adult elements of the show, though - many years later (the fall of 2006, to be exact), I did a professional regional production of the show in Boston. We did a school day performance for, I assume, middle school and high school students. When Martha first entered and went into that very long kiss with Jefferson, we heard a young male voice from the audience saying "take a breath!" Ah, kids... |
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| Posted by: bearcat 09:28 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: re: hey, i was in BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS - Chromolume 09:22 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| was that at Boston Lyric Stage? I remember that as one fine production with Peter Carey a committed and deeply moving John Adams | |
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| Posted by: Chromolume 09:30 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
| In reply to: re: hey, i was in BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS - bearcat 09:28 pm EDT 07/03/17 | |
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| Yes it was, thank you - and yes HE was. (And he also played the role at Goodspeed, I think the year after that. I still hate that I didn't get to see that.) | |
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