I wish they'd pull a Chorus Line and restage the original Dreamgirls. I saw the new tour and it's pretty poor even compared to my bootleg...

I feel the same way about NPH--I don't get the appeal, especially from gay men, at ALL. I'm glad he came out, but... I love Hannigan though....

Oh and Barrett is gay.

Yeah, I figured that out when I looked him and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio up to see if that might have been her, and turns out it likely WAS her. Apparently, they were the two leads at the time in West Side Story, so I imagine she was his "beard" for that magazine photo, lol.

Thanks for posting! What a treat.

I would love to learn more about the show post 1975 when the original stories (Chuck/Tara/Phil, Erica leaving PV to become a model, Joe/Ruth's Love story, Phoebe/Charles/Mona, the trials and tribulations of Anne Tyler) were coming to a conclusion, an the show was transforming from the "small town world" stories, to a bigger scale stories (specifically with the introductions of the Cortlandts and more Center City-centric stories).

I wonder if viewers really felt the change in tone. The ratings really began to shoot-up at this point, but it also lead to the trend of relaying more on big plot events (like the Cortlandt Masquerade) and not the characters for storyline.

I can vividly recall when (for me) the flavor of the show began to change. It was when seedy pimps and prostitutes would barge into Phoebe's mansion to blackmail/threaten/collaborate with her in her machinations against Donna Beck. Phoebe rubbing shoulders with the likes of Billy Clyde, Estell La Tour and Lettie Jean was camp heaven!

You mentioned Michael Bennet, if I could go back in time and see any Broadway musical it would be opening night of Dreamgirls.

I'd go back in time just to see the opening night of any Sondheim musical! Even "Follies"!

I'd go back in time just to see the opening night of any Sondheim musical! Even "Follies"!

"Even" Follies? You do know for most Sondheim obsessed theatre fags like myself, the original Hal Prince/Michael Bennett co directed version of Follies is *the* dream show (I have thirty mins of home video bootleg footgae but that's it). *ahem* anyway--back to AMC

November 9, 1982 Digest.

I never even knew they did another outdoor event to rival the 1980 wedding. Man, I admit that I miss the fact soaps can't do this anymore--I've been watching some episodes of the 1980 Cortland Masquerade--all shot on location in a massive mansion, and it's just kinda depressing now...