Yes, girls, it is "The Bad Seed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I told you there is always a reason for writing about it, and here it is.
Today marks twenty days after my birthday. On that day in 1954, which also happens to be the Feast Of The Immaculate Conception, this play opened on Broadway? Did Nancy Kelly drop the glass on stage? That had to have been a lot of glass ware during the run. And just think, two shows a day on Wednesday and Saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a treat it must have been to witness this on stage. Anyone out there who has and remembers, comment here and answer about Nancy Kelly and the glass. Because that is really when the scale of hysteria is notched up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mervyn LeRoy's 1956 film almost preserves the play in a way foreshadowing Maria Friedman's current and brilliant film adaptation of Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along." More on that, in another post, dolls!
I am sure it was planned to open this on the Feast Of The Immaculate Conception.
I wonder what Mary thinks of it all?????????????????????
Oh how I wish someone who was THERE could tell us all about it!!!!
ReplyDeleteVictoria, My cousin Brian, now 83, saw this onstage. He recalls Patty McCormack very well, but he said the scariest moment was Henry Jones screaming from backstage, as Rhoda kills Leroy by setting fire to the basement.
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