| The Marian-as-birth-mother argument lives on. | |
| Posted by: Delvino 07:09 pm EST 12/29/21 | |
| In reply to: re: But Winthrop is a kid - Ann 05:37 pm EST 12/29/21 | |
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| This counter narrative that Marian is Winthrop's birth mother will never leave us. But it seems unlikely that this production, conceived like the successful Dolly to restore the vestiges of a golden era of musical theater, would be working with an entirely subtextural piece of origin story revision. In other words, seeking an older Mrs. Paroo to tell the audience that Marian had a child with the departed town miser seems a leap. They want us to think "He left all of the books to her," and with child? And this Foster Marian operates with that level of deception? I don't see the Jackman-Zaks collaboration enforcing such a subterranean plot revelation. But this exposes the original sketch of the character. Fun to read anyway. "Marian’s character sketch is seven pages long and gives a ton of backstory; however, it lists her name as Marian Maddy and is very evidently an early draft. Her last name is Maddy here because Old Miser Madison was originally her father, who then left her his books. Despite being an early draft, some details ring true for the final version of the character: “Marian might easily have succumbed to a life of quiet desperation had she not had Melvin Maddy’s legacy of books…These books were Marian’s life and the substance of her dreams.” |
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| Link | WHAT YOU’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT MARIAN THE LIBRARIAN |
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