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| re: hey, i was in BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS | |
| 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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| re: hey, i was in BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS | |
| 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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| re: hey, i was in BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS | |
| 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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| re: hey, i was in BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS | |
| 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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