| re: Jeopardy! contestant interview whoopsie... | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 12:09 pm EDT 07/18/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Jeopardy! contestant interview whoopsie... - portenopete 08:51 pm EDT 07/15/24 | |
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| I'm late to this discussion (have been laid up with pinched nerve and bulging disk after taking the transport chair out of the back seat on our trip to see Elevator Repair Service's glorious Ulysses at Bard last week--first trip to see theatre since my husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer's--NYC is now out of the question). I did want to chime in and say that, while I suspect most posters are right that the young man meant Esther Williams not Ethel Merman, there IS a swimming pool theatrical tradition, and it's possible he was making reference to them. When I was in high school in Oak Park, IL back in the seventies, every Spring the "Girls' Physical Education Department" (yes, we were segregated by sex/gender as it was understood back ten--had our own gyms and swimming pools, as boys were often expected to swim naked if the school ran out of suits on a given day--imagine that happening now!) produced an evening of synchronized swimming centering around a Broadway musical. They used recordings of the songs (usually the OBC) and did swimming numbers to them. When I entered Northwestern in 1975, there was a Spring student production called the Dolphin Show (which still exists)--it originally was a synchronized swimming show like my high school's, though by the time I got there it had become a fully staged, student-acted, -directed, and -designed production of a Broadway musical. It was not connected t the offerings of the Theatre Department. When I was a student, they did Guys and Dolls, Once Upon a Mattress, Fiddler on the Roof, and Gypsy (Suzie Plakson played the Queen in Mattress and Rose in Gypsy). They were well-done and had a big budget. | |
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