| SHENANDOAH: Thoughts and Memories? | |
| Last Edit: EvFoDr 02:55 pm EDT 08/20/20 | |
| Posted by: EvFoDr 02:53 pm EDT 08/20/20 | |
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| You know how some musicals get talked about over and over and some just seem to fade away? This one seems to be in the latter category, despite a healhy run, especially for the time. I know the synposis and looked up the main productions. I see the original ran three years on Broadway and a 1989 revival appears to have run less then a month. Ouch. I am curious what ATC'ers remember. What was the feeling at the time? How did this fit into the era in which it was introduced? I expect, and fine by me, that the conversation might move in directions that people were perhaps not thinking or talking about much at the time. A civil war era story that seems to be sympathetic towards the Southern states/people/Confederacy. But I feel like people were NOT talking about Shenandoah long before our current reckoning with the Confederacy and the slave south. I flipped through the cast list and was surprised that aside from John Cullum and Craig Lucas (in the ensemble) I have never heard of anyone else in terms of them having a signifcant Broadway credit before or after this show. I'd also never heard of anyone on the creative team. I guess this has just been a huge gap in my theatre knowledge. Honestly I consider myself very knowledgeable. Friends call me the encyclopedia of musical theatre. LOL. I guess you don't know about that you didn't learn about. I was in a kid's summer camp theatre revue in the mid 80's (I was around 11) and we sang the song Freedom. I recently came across some photos from that production and it prompted me to look the song up. I didn't even know it was from Shenandoah! I also listened to the OBCR today for the first time and recognized We Make A Beautiful Pair from the Alice/Emily Duets album--but again never knew what show it was from. And to top it all off I always thought the song Shenandoah was FROM this musical, when in fact it is just an American folk song. Wow! I was chuckling at how clueless I was about this show. Look forward to hearing some of your perspective. |
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