Luis Rego
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Theater
Filmography
References
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Trenton, New Jersey
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Song list
;Act I
*We're Still Friends - Company
*Monica - Alvin, Monica and Four Guys
*By Threes - Wally, Alvin and Harvey
*A Mover's Life - Alvin and Four Guys
*Love Revolution - Cleo
*Someone Wonderful I Missed - Monica and Cleo
*Sexually Free - Alvin, Cleo and Wally
;Act II
*Hey There, Good Times - Harvey, Stanley, Quentin and Norman
*Lovers on Christmas Eve - Monica, Wally and Norman
*Scream - Harvey, Stanley, Quentin and Norman
*Everybody Today is Turning On - Alvin and Wally
*Married Couple Seeks Married Couple - Alvin, Cleo, Wally and Monica
*I Love My Wife - Alvin and Wally
Productions
The pre-
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tryout opened at the
Forrest Theatre
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in
Philadelphia
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on March 21, 1977. The Broadway production opened at the
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on April 17, 1977, and closed on May 20, 1979, after 857 performances and seven previews. Directed by
Gene Saks
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James Naughton
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as Wally,
Joanna Gleason
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Tom Wopat
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,
Janie Sell
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and, in an
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version,
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
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,
Hattie Winston
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, and Barbara Sharma. Original director and choreographer
Joe Layton
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was replaced due to injuries sustained in a fall.
The West End production opened at the
Prince of Wales Theatre
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on October 6, 1977, where it ran for 401 performances. It was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Musical of the Year. The show originally starred '' Porridge'' and ''
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'' star
Richard Beckinsale
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, who was replaced as the lead mid-run by ''
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'' actor
Robin Askwith
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.
The band consisted of four on-stage musicians who were among the friends and acted in the opening scene. The show was filled with their shenanigans in the background during the songs. They sang along with some of the numbers and sometimes one of them took a solo and sang alone.
The Helen Hayes Theatre in
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, presented the musical in April 2004.
A production was staged by the Reprise Theatre Company, Brentwood Theatre, Brentwood, California, in December 2008. This starred Jason Alexander (Alvin),
Vicki Lewis
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Lea Thompson
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(Monica).
Response
Critical reviews
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, reviewing for ''
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'', wrote that the musical is "bright, inventive, amusing and breezy." He noted that what Coleman and Stewart did regarding the band "is breathtakingly simple, but none...has ever done it before. They have taken the band and put it up on stage...The musicians are welded into the play, as a kind of Greek chorus." He especially noted that "It is a gorgeous cast-just right." Finally, he called the musical "mildly sexy, vastly diverting and highly amusing."
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Bea Arthur
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Rock Hudson
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