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| re: Questions about the new MERRILY | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 12:27 am EST 01/04/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Questions about the new MERRILY - lordofspeech 08:49 pm EST 01/03/19 | |
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| "Beth singing it was heart-wrenching.....Beth should sing it. We need to feel the cost of Frank’s destroying people. " But isn't it true that, in the original version of MERRILY, the "Not a Day Goes By" scene is the first time we see Beth in the show, and doesn't she only have a very few lines before she starts singing? I'm rather surprised that you found it heart-wrenching under those circumstances, and yes, it makes sense to me to switch the song to Frank for that reason. |
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| re: Questions about the new MERRILY | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 12:43 pm EST 01/04/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Questions about the new MERRILY - Michael_Portantiere 12:27 am EST 01/04/19 | |
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| I've always wondered why we didn't have, at least, one scene with Beth earlier in the show, after her divorce from Frank, to introduce the character, specifically so that "Not A Day Goes By" doesn't come out of the blue in the divorce scene. Just because people divorce doesn't mean that they disappear from one another's stories, although, in this case, I believe the reason for that is that Beth is so devastated that she takes the son and leaves the city to return to her hometown. I would love to see a post-divorce/pre-ballad Beth who has survived crossing paths with Frank in a way that we're not sure Charlie or Mary will. Perhaps she went back to performing or maybe she got remarried to someone who makes her happy or maybe something entirely different. I imagine that, no matter what, Beth would have a private sadness that her marriage to Frank failed and that she will always love him in some small way, even though she would only show that to the audience or, perhaps, Charlie or Mary, but never to Frank. |
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| re: Questions about the new MERRILY | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 01:18 pm EST 01/04/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Questions about the new MERRILY - JereNYC 12:43 pm EST 01/04/19 | |
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| JereNYC, I don't know the revised version of MERRILY well enough to say, but doesn't it include at least one brief scene of Beth before (i.e., after) the "Not a Day Goes By" scene? This is an honest question, I really don't remember. If such a scene was NOT added, I completely agree that it should have been. | |
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