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I'll definitely be there!  We are having a blast. Pros and student actors all doing a grand job.
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I'd have loved to been able to see this run but previous engagements precluded my wife and I from going. Tell me, did Bruce update some of the jokes or is it set firmly in the 50's?
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I'd have loved to been able to see this run but previous engagements precluded my wife and I from going. Tell me, did Bruce update some of the jokes or is it set firmly in the 50's?
We set it in the year the film came out - 1959. As Henry said, what I did was cut all of the dated name references from the play and replaced many of them with the much superior and more general jokes from the film - it came out better than I could have imagined.
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If I didn't live on the other side of the country (Dogpatch is about the halfway mark between where I am and LA), I would be there with cowbells on. I absolutely love the score (though one of my favorite songs from it, "It's a Nuisance Having You Around" was cut at some point in its development), and am an enormous fan of the comic strip, so it's great to see the show and material in such good and simpatico hands.
If you're able to go see this production (or any production of this show, but namely this one), you should go, and you'll leave exclaiming: "Oh, happy day!"
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If I didn't live on the other side of the country (Dogpatch is about the halfway mark between where I am and LA), I would be there with cowbells on. I absolutely love the score (though one of my favorite songs from it, "It's a Nuisance Having You Around" was cut at some point in its development), and am an enormous fan of the comic strip, so it's great to see the show and material in such good and simpatico hands.
If you're able to go see this production (or any production of this show, but namely this one), you should go, and you'll leave exclaiming: "Oh, happy day!"
They won't exclaim Oh Happy Day in this production - we cut the song. Abner, the musical, runs two hours and forty minutes, as opposed to the film, which runs 105 minutes. I brought our running time down to two hours exactly, which helps the proceedings immeasurably. I've always felt that Oh Happy Day is dated in a way that nothing else in the show is, song-wise, and it's also the top of act two at a time when we want to get back to the story. It's sung by characters that we don't see before or after and it frankly gives away one of the funniest gags in the show, the reveal of the husbands a muscle-men. That's the only song we cut, though.
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