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| re: Is the SF Playhouse production really the San Francisco premiere of Follies? | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 01:29 am EDT 08/01/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Is the SF Playhouse production really the San Francisco premiere of Follies? - rossde 12:23 am EDT 08/01/22 | |
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| Did we understand the show at the tender ages of 16 and 17? Well, we thought we did. Sure, why not, lol. The musical only demands that the main characters remember (and are literally haunted by) themselves at the ages of, um...negative 14 and negative 13? :-) (I would say something similar about the very slickly produced but clueless production I saw at a local conservatory some years back. It was fun to see, but...) But hey, god bless you all for feeling like you could take it on. When I was that age, I wouldn't have been wanted to be told I couldn't, even if that was right. :-) |
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| Posted by: chrismpls 02:49 pm EDT 08/01/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Is the SF Playhouse production really the San Francisco premiere of Follies? - Chromolume 01:29 am EDT 08/01/22 | |
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| A high school in my area recently did "Follies," too, and I was bummed to miss it. I'm skeptical but curious. Parenthetically, I've always wondered how "Merrily We Roll Along" would work cast the opposite way of the original. I've seen it with sort of down-the-middle casting but it seems like older actors performing the early (late) scenes of youth and promise-that-we-know-will-sour would be especially poignant. | |
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| re: Reverse "Merrily" | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 06:28 pm EDT 08/01/22 | |
| In reply to: Reverse "Merrily" - chrismpls 02:49 pm EDT 08/01/22 | |
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| What you suggest is what the concept of the original Kaufman and Hart play was in 1935. With a cast of 91! The majority of principals were mid 30s to mid 40s .... | |
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