| Tracking down the original train set |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 12:34 am EST 02/02/21 |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 12:16 am EST 02/02/21 |
| In reply to: re: thoughts on the OTTC revival? / as compared to the original too? - bobby2 11:31 pm EST 02/01/21 |
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Robin Wagner's original Tony-winning set to ''On the Twentieth Century'' (1978) was a gleaming, glorious silver Art Deco train.
If you can find a copy of Martin Gottfried's coffee-table book, ''Broadway Musicals,'' there's an entire chapter of exquisite photos devoted to it.
When the national tour came to San Francisco in 1979, I had the great pleasure to interview Betty Comden and Adolph Green. And Betty said: ''Thanks to the brilliant Art Deco train, the whole show is very much like a movie. The way the train compartments slide in and out are like lap dissolves.''
There's no way the set in the 2015 Broadway revival (even by the estimable David Rockwell) could ever compete.
But Chenoweth and Karl gave their all with comic panache, and should've walked away with Tonys.
Sadly, Wilson was miscast; they should've brought back Jo Anne Worley, who played the loony Letitia in the 2005 Actors Fund concert. |
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Jo Anne Worley: 'Repent' from 'On the Twentieth Century' |
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