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50min Company Pre Boston Tryout Promo aquired 😎

I feel everyone has the right to hear these recordings as theres so much obscure stuff that people never want to share and theres a whole gatekeeping factor about bootlegs that is just ridiculous.

This reel contains interviews with Barbara Barrie, Dean Jones, Elaine Stritch, Hal Prince, Stephen Sondheim. Intertwined with Company, Sorry Grateful, You Can Drive A Person Crazy, Someone Is Waiting, Another Hundred People, and Happily Ever After. With a super strong Burt Bacharach sort of production style on all the songs

heres a little sneak peak of the opening number for whats to come...

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Happy birthday to George Furth (December 14th 1932 - August 11th 2008)

George Furth was a playwright and actor most well known for writing the libretto to the 1970 musical Company. Other works include Twigs (1971), The Act (1977), The Supporting Cast (1981), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Precious Sons (1986), and Getting Away with Murder (1996)

Furth was also a prolific character actor. His IMDb page is like a mile long.

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Boris Aronson's original Model Mockup of the 1970 Company set

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State of the blog (and the Internet Archive!)

Since Merrily opened on Broadway this blogs follower count has really shot up which is pretty crazy. It makes me feel a bit weird that I'm not particularly active here lol. George Furth summer is real, to me!!

Don't worry this isn't a "I'm archiving this blog" post. I actually would like to be more active here, as I am still sourcing weird Furth stuff, though my main focus right now is on Company, Twigs, and Precious Sons, fully because those are what interest me the most in this particular moment. My dear friends can probably tell you how utterly annoying I am about this 24/7.

If I was being smart about it I would post about merrily but whatever, who needs followers! That being said, Hi new merrily fans! Glad you are here. Consider checking out my merrily we roll along tag and feel free to send me things about the current production if you'd like, I'm not particularly engaged in it (sigh!)

This blog started out as just a way for me to share somethings I find interesting but now I see things I've grabbed here being used by other people on the Internet which is pretty crazy. I need to go back and fix the sourcing for some of my earlier posts -_-

I've been freelancing to pay rent and developing my own work as a writer which takes precedent to making weird posts about Furth's body of work. I'll get back to it eventually! It's very dear to me.

There's also that the Internet Archive, which is the only way I can effectively source a lot of my 1-3 sentence references to Furth (often in obscure, out of print, biographies and memoirs) is being targeted by Publishers (and let's be clear here, very short sighted Authors!) leading to 500,000 books being removed from their controlled digital library. If you can, consider supporting the Internet Archive's fight.

Tldr - I've been busy, hi to all my new followers, support controlled digital lending

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Virtually recreating Boris Aronson's Original 1970 Company set!

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who’s like us? damn few

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Joan Hotchkis and George Furth in Season 3, Episode 18 of the New Dick Van Dyke Show (1974)

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Michael Malota (Art), Ginger Williams (Sandra), Gregory Jbara (Fred), Adam Wylie (Freddy), and Nora Dunn (Bea) in the 2000 West Coast premiere of Precious Sons

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George Furth in Airport '77

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Nora Dunn (Bea) and Gregory Jbara (Fred) in the Blank Theater production of Precious Sons, directed by Daniel Henning (2000)

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Above: Ed Harris (Fred), Anthony Rapp (Freddy), and Judith Ivey (Bea) in George Furth's 1986 play "Precious Sons"

Below: Various photos from the playbill of the same production. Including Anne Bobby (Sandra), and William O'Leary (Art.)

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A blurb on the Tambakos Film Festival from the December 20th 2001 edition of the Andover Townsman.

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Happy birthday to George Furth (December 14th 1932 - August 11th 2008)

George Furth was a playwright and actor most well known for writing the libretto to the 1970 musical Company. Other works include Twigs (1971), The Act (1977), The Supporting Cast (1981), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Precious Sons (1986), and Getting Away with Murder (1996)

Furth was also a prolific character actor. His IMDb page is like a mile long.

🎂

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A brief mention of the scrapped Marvin Hamlisch George Furth collaboration musical called "The End" in April 4th 1974 edition of the Pottstown Mercury

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Happy Birthday, John Rubinstein (December 8, 1946). Above, top, with Heather MacRae and Chip Zien in Merrily We Roll Along in LaJolla (1985) and below with Christine Ebersole in Getting Away with Murder (1996).

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Carol Burnett discusses the TV movie adaptation of Twigs in the March 2nd 1975 edition of the Pomona Progress Bulletin.