[78-L] Private Lives - slight 78 content

[David Lennick]

My folks did a production of Private Lives in 1952, at an outdoor theatre near 
Woodbridge Ontario..would you believe (more than 1 78RPM connection here) Mart 
Kenney's Ranch? Not so easy to find disposable records at that time, when they 
were still current.

A couple of years earlier, they did "Awake and Sing". That calls for the wife 
to break several records. Traumatizing.

dl

On 10/6/2011 9:30 AM, Mike Daley wrote:
> 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