[78-L] Private Lives - slight 78 content

[Mike Daley]

The wife and I went to see a new Broadway-bound production of Noel
Coward's Private Lives at the Royal Alex theatre in Toronto yesterday.
Scene 2 takes place in Amanda's (played by Kim Cattrall) apartment.
The play is set in 1930 and she has a floor model phonograph whose lid
lights up when records are played. At one point she puts on a 78 of
the ODJB performing "Tiger Rag" to aggravate her paramour, Eliot, and
eventually breaks the record over his head. The sound of the record
playing is faked - it comes through the sound system of the theatre,
not from the phonograph. Nonetheless, they're smashing a 78 every day!
You can't fake that. Here's hoping it's the collected works of Wayne
King.

Mike