Episode #1000

[Mysterious Benefactor]

 

[dom]

Q: "Good gravy, that should have been a closed coffin wake."

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[Uncle Roger]

Lara Parker: "Nice moves, Denise. You'll be playing Lolita in a couple of years."

[Mysterious Benefactor]

     Good one!! 

[Uncle Roger]

That Denise! Thanks, MB!!!

[Mysterious Benefactor]

(  That Denise, indeed!!    She was hardly an innocent child...)

[Uncle Roger]

Nope. And she did play Lolita at one point.

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(  That's right - I'd forgotten about that!!)

[Uncle Roger]

I'm unclear as to how the subject matter would lend itself to a musical.

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(  Back in the day I remember reading an article that said something like turning Lolita into a musical was a bad idea from the start. It also wasn't very kind to Denise because it said something like not only couldn't she sing but she couldn't play the sexuality of a nymphet. And if that was really true, no wonder the show was DOA...)

[Uncle Roger]

Denise had a decent enough singing voice, as clips from her tenure on The Electric Company show. Whether it was Broadway caliber or not is not an assessment that I am qualified to make.
She did address the sexpot remark at the time (in Newsweek, I think) by saying that she could play a sexpot just as well as anyone else. Again, an assessment that I am not qualified to make.

[Uncle Roger]

There is an audioclip of Denise singing a song called Saturday from the play. It's not an official soundtrack recording. The play didn't last long enough to warrant a cast album. It's interesting as a curiosity.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

(  A "curiosity" is a good way to describe it...)

[Uncle Roger]

And yet not the most bizarre concept for a musical, believe it or not. While Googling Lolita, My Love, one of the other things that popped up was a musical version of The Diary of Anne Frank.