Posted on 07/11/2018 4:19:27 PM PDT by SMGFan
The latest classic TV show to get the musical treatment has been announced: CBS’s mid-60s hit Green Acres, about a married couple who’s made it in New York, only to return to the simple life on a country farm.
The show is officially in the works after years of trying to get it off the ground; way back in 2012, Variety reported that a stage production of Green Acres was in the “beginning stages,” but nothing came of the effort. It’s finally come together as part of the launching of Center Stage Capital, Inc., a new entertainment company set to present a portfolio of original musicals bound for Broadway and Off-Broadway. Green Acres The Musical will be produced by Center Stage Capital’s CEO Pam Laudenslager and Chief Operating Officer Colleen Lober, as well as TV veteran Richard Chapman.
Here’s the show’s official synopsis: “Green Acres The Musical is a fast-paced, contemporary story that features the best in comedy, music and dance. This is the spirited musical comedy love story of Oliver and Lisa Douglas. He is a high-powered, Manhattan attorney and she is an aspiring fashion designer and, together, they are living ‘the good life’ in New York City. Faced with the overwhelming pressure to run his family’s law firm and live up to his father’s reputation, Oliver longs for the simple life, but New York and all that it has to offer is Lisa’s perfect world. What happens when two people in love find themselves wanting opposite lives sends us on a journey that is both hilarious and filled with heart.”
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Pat Butram was Mr. Haney, and years before he was Gene Autry’s sidekick. He always called Gene Mr. Artery.
Yeah, I Googled it and realized my mistake.
“I get allergic, smelling gays”?
Jake Tapper is a dead ringer for Hank Kimball
The farm will also get a large ethanol subsidy since they didn’t build that (farm).
An unreliable solar battery for the cell repeater since the farm is so far away.
A Bing search indicates only 15% of the population is rural now. The last time it was split 50/50 that I could find was in 1920.
There is no possible substitute for Eva Gabor.
But just watch-they will cast a fat Lesbian in the role.
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