I forgot to say this until I saw that Susan mentioned the show in her interview, but that Celebrity Autobiography Broadway play closed this month, before Susan could appear in it. The reviews were scathing and the ticket sales were poor.

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Someone put these two June 1986 episodes on Youtube about a week ago. I looked on Archive and Youtube and didn't see that they were already available but I may have missed them. If so my apologies.

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Sorry if I missed anyone.

I also saw a bit of an October 1986 episode that was uploaded almost a year ago. I can't remember if it was posted before or not.

1986 All My Children and commercials aired mid Oct partial episode

They really did change everything about Skye with the recast, from the accent to the "kooky" wardrobe. I am not sure what they were thinking with the original concept of the character.

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1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

I forgot to say this until I saw that Susan mentioned the show in her interview, but that Celebrity Autobiography Broadway play closed this month, before Susan could appear in it. The reviews were scathing and the ticket sales were poor.

Celebrity Autobiography had a couple strikes against it. A, it was the second time that specific show had been on Broadway, and apparently they didn't update the material. B, over the last few years, audiences have grown less tolerant of actors reading on stage, especially at Broadway prices.

Thanks for the tag for the 1986 episodes!

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

I forgot to say this until I saw that Susan mentioned the show in her interview, but that Celebrity Autobiography Broadway play closed this month, before Susan could appear in it. The reviews were scathing and the ticket sales were poor.

No way! I really wanted to see La Lucci!

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

Someone put these two June 1986 episodes on Youtube about a week ago. I looked on Archive and Youtube and didn't see that they were already available but I may have missed them. If so my apologies.

@Jonathan @EricMontreal22 @slick jones @Vee @vetsoapfan @alwaysAMC @Khan @Sensuelle @All My Shadows @SFK @TheyStartedOnSoaps @Stevel @Paul Raven @Franko @Wendy @janea4old @SoapDope78 @soapfan770 @Soaplovers @LeClerc @Darn @dragonflies @Kane @1974mdp @AMCOLTLLover @Maxim

Sorry if I missed anyone.

I also saw a bit of an October 1986 episode that was uploaded almost a year ago. I can't remember if it was posted before or not.

1986 All My Children and commercials aired mid Oct partial episode

They really did change everything about Skye with the recast, from the accent to the "kooky" wardrobe. I am not sure what they were thinking with the original concept of the character.

Thank u ! Great stuff

Thanks so much!

1 hour ago, Franko said:

Celebrity Autobiography had a couple strikes against it. A, it was the second time that specific show had been on Broadway, and apparently they didn't update the material. B, over the last few years, audiences have grown less tolerant of actors reading on stage, especially at Broadway prices.

Thanks for the tag for the 1986 episodes!

Yeah, there have been a couple of shows like this in the past little while on Broadway, and I think the thinking is people will pay Broadway prices just to see the famous people on stage--which isn't really feasible right now... There were the two "plays" All In and All Out which were just a rotating group of celebrities reading Simon Rich stories, I think they finished their intended run, but I know several friends who actually felt pretty put off by what they were getting for their money. (I am curious what autobiography Susan Lucci would have read from?)

2 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Someone put these two June 1986 episodes on Youtube about a week ago. I looked on Archive and Youtube and didn't see that they were already available but I may have missed them. If so my apologies.

@Jonathan @EricMontreal22 @slick jones @Vee @vetsoapfan @alwaysAMC @Khan @Sensuelle @All My Shadows @SFK @TheyStartedOnSoaps @Stevel @Paul Raven @Franko @Wendy @janea4old @SoapDope78 @soapfan770 @Soaplovers @LeClerc @Darn @dragonflies @Kane @1974mdp @AMCOLTLLover @Maxim

Sorry if I missed anyone.

They really did change everything about Skye with the recast, from the accent to the "kooky" wardrobe. I am not sure what they were thinking with the original concept of the character.

Thanks for that! Wow I thought I had some idea of 1986 AMC (and had seen episodes before) but several people here and several storylines are pretty unfamiliar to me, and if I knew Skye was a jazz singer I certainly had forgotten :O Although I have seen bits of this Skye when she slept with Tad (cheating on Hillary and providing Michael E Knight's first attempt to break away from AMC--I think that's when he did that angel comedy.)

Interesting to see the credits (love when we get full credits :P ) Art Wallace and Gillian Spencer are listed as story consultants--Wallace being another major Dark Shadows writer working on an Agnes Nixon soap...

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2 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Someone put these two June 1986 episodes on Youtube about a week ago. I looked on Archive and Youtube and didn't see that they were already available but I may have missed them. If so my apologies.

@Jonathan @EricMontreal22 @slick jones @Vee @vetsoapfan @alwaysAMC @Khan @Sensuelle @All My Shadows @SFK @TheyStartedOnSoaps @Stevel @Paul Raven @Franko @Wendy @janea4old @SoapDope78 @soapfan770 @Soaplovers @LeClerc @Darn @dragonflies @Kane @1974mdp @AMCOLTLLover @Maxim

Sorry if I missed anyone.

I also saw a bit of an October 1986 episode that was uploaded almost a year ago. I can't remember if it was posted before or not.

1986 All My Children and commercials aired mid Oct partial episode

They really did change everything about Skye with the recast, from the accent to the "kooky" wardrobe. I am not sure what they were thinking with the original concept of the character.

Thank yoy1

I knew that Erica and Tom eventually made some type of peace but I was surprised at how well they get along here and how much fun Tom is having with her, how he tries to support her, etc. Maybe Richard Shoberg was just having fun, I don't know. Usually the character is so tense.

15 minutes ago, EricMontreal22 said:

Yeah, there have been a couple of shows like this in the past little while on Broadway, and I think the thinking is people will pay Broadway prices just to see the famous people on stage--which isn't really feasible right now... There were the two "plays" All In and All Out which were just a rotating group of celebrities reading Simon Rich stories, I think they finished their intended run, but I know several friends who actually felt pretty put off by what they were getting for their money. (I am curious what autobiography Susan Lucci would have read from?)

She said she was going to be reading from Liz Taylor's memoir at the same time as someone else would be reading Debbie Reynolds and someone else would be reading Eddie Fisher. She would also be reading Hedy Lamarr.

(at one point poor Michele Lee, who seemed a little out of it, misheard and thought she was reading a Mario Cantone memoir - Susan said no, although that would have been great)

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Ooh that's a good combo! I did just finish the interview (which I liked more than I expected to--some good little tidbits. And yes, I was amused when Susan had no idea what Michele was talking about with soap opera cue cards that weren't the script but would remind you where you were in the script??)