Broadway Connections- Page 2

[edenespinosalover]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:11pm

FLOYD COLLINS is based on true events which occurred near Cave City, Kentucky in the winter of 1925.

For many years, the farmers and landowners of this area fought a series of bitter "cave wars" in which they competed to discover and operate the largest and most beautiful caves in the region. Many farmers found expansive and decorative caverns on their own properties which they opened for tourism and profit. Floyd Collins, who lived nearby on his family's farm, was an avid cave explorer and had already opened his own Crystal Cave. But the enterprise never brought Floyd the recognition and wealth of which he dreamed. On a rainy January 30, 1925, Floyd set out to explore Sand Cave, hoping to find a new cavern or a series of underground tunnels which he believed linked all the caves of the region. Winding his way into the earth with only a dim oil lantern to guide him, Floyd uses the echoes of his voice to sound out the cave (The Call, It Moves, Time to Go). As Floyd squirmed feet first through a tight passageway 150 feet underground, a small rock fell on his left foot, wedging in between him and the ceiling. Floyd was trapped in Sand Cave.

The rescue attempts at Sand Cave began with a handful of locals, including Floyd's family (Lucky) and fellow cavers ('Tween a Rock an'a Hard Place), who were confident that the trapped man would be quickly freed. But as night fell at Sand Cave, and Floyd's brother Homer crawled into the passageways to spend the night with his brother (Daybreak), it became clear to the growing crowd that the rescue operation would not be a simple one.

Although many tried to reach Floyd with supplies or comfort, few made it, turning back either because of the narrowness of the crawlways or the sudden fear the cave inspired. One of the few who reached Floyd was a cub reporter from the Louisville Courier-Journal named William Burke "Skeets" Miller. Because Miller was "no bigger than a 'squito," he was able to slide down the narrow chutes (I Landed On Him) and sit with Floyd in his cell-like cave. In the course of eight visits with the trapped man, Miller conducted a series of interviews which relayed to a quickly growing readership a firsthand account of the experience of being buried alive.

As days turned to weeks at Sand Cave, the local rescue attempt soon ballooned into a national crisis demanding outside engineering, dozens of miners, the National Guard, and the Red Cross. In the midst of factions disagreeing about the options for saving Floyd, the Collins family tried to remain strong (Heart an'Hand), with Homer continuing to lead efforts to get to Floyd's foot (The Riddle Song). Yet because of numerous factors including the weather, the crumbling walls of the cave, the tightness of the squeeze, and, at times, simple confusion and fear, no one could rescue Floyd.

Enticed by daily reports from a growing number of reporters at the site (Is That Remarkable?), an estimated 20,000 onlookers gradually arrived from all over America - some hoping to help, some hoping to get a glimpse of the now heroic Floyd, some hoping to exploit the crowd by hawking souvenirs or selling balloons. As the circus at Sand Cave reached its height with jugglers, medicine men, preachers and movie crews scrambling to get it all on film, Collins was all but forgotten. Around him swirled the first great media circus of the modern era (The Carnival). Although a series of cave-ins blocked the passageways to Floyd, cutting him off from the outside world, Floyd's sister, Nellie, dreamed of a way to lead her brother from his prison (Through the Mountain); Homer eventually clashed with the authorities and was banned from the site (Git Comfortable) as a vertical shaft was begun to reach Floyd. With the rescue efforts entering their third week (The Ballad of Floyd Collins), Floyd remained alone, left to contemplate his own fate (The Dream) and impending death.

On February 16, seventeen days after he had entered the cave, a shaft finally reached Floyd Collins. He had died of exposure, exhaustion, and starvation three days earlier, on Friday the 13th (How Glory Goes). The carnival at Sand Cave packed up and went home.

[edenespinosalover]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:12pm

That's a synopsis of it, but anyhow...can anybody come up with the connection cuz I can't. Updated On: 2/8/05 at 06:12 PM

[Thesbijean]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:14pm

Wow, cool, never heard of it. It wasn't ever on broadway, was it?

[feinstein9]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:17pm

sure thing. floyd was written by adam guetell, whos grandfather was richard rogers, who wrote carousel, which was on tour in 1994 starring sarah uriarte berry (as julie jordon), was then in taboo (as nicola).

[edenespinosalover]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:20pm

Nice.

[Thesbijean]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:21pm

K, City of Angels and A Little Night Music, my two all time favs...

[feinstein9]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:22pm

hit me again!

or i'll give you one... contact and evita... hmmm

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:25pm

actually, i was thinking of Andre de shields, who was in the Wiz with Stephanie Mills who was in Funny Girl...

either works...

[Thesbijean]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:25pm

Patti Lupone starred as Evita

Patti Lupone starred as Reno in Anything Goes at Lincoln Center in Vivian Beaumont Theatre

Contact was there as well Updated On: 2/8/05 at 06:25 PM

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:25pm

Stroman directed contact and directed the music man which stared rebecca luker who was in phatom which was writtne by andrew lloyd webber who wrote evita

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:28pm

ok Civil War and Rocky Horror

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:28pm

The Secret Garden and The Producers?

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:31pm

Civil War was composed by (is composed by) Frank Wildhorn, who also did Dracula, starring Tom Hewitt as the title character...Tom was also in Rocky Horror...

John Collum and Lea Salonga Updated On: 2/8/05 at 06:31 PM

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:32pm

both secret garden and producers were at the st james

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:36pm

how about

Denis O'hare and Sutton Foster

[shira467]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:38pm

Dennis O'Hare was in Assassins which also starred Marc Kudisch who starred in Thoroughly Modern Millie with Sutton Foster.

Into the Woods and Bye Birdie?

I have no clue, just random ideas...

Updated On: 2/8/05 at 06:38 PM

[Aphexis]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:45pm

Chita Rivera, who was in the original birdie, was directed by hal prince in spiderwoman who directed many of sondheim's shows who obviously wrote woods.

[Aphexis]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:46pm

Elaine Stritch and Kristen Chenoweth

[Mattio98]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:47pm

Chita Rivera was in the original Bye Bye Birdie
Chita was in the revival of Nine with Laura Benanti
Laura Benanti was in the revival of Into The Woods

[Mattio98]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 6:52pm

Stritch was in Company
Sondheim wrote Company
Sondheim wrote lyrics to Bernstein's music in West Side Story
Bernstein wrote Candide which Chenoweth starred in a concert version of at Carnegie Hall.

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 7:22pm

The Music Man and Titanic

Updated On: 2/8/05 at 07:22 PM

[whatyouown223]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 7:23pm

you guys are mistaking the game..you don't name performers. You name shows, and, if you choose, can CONNECT them by performers.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 7:28pm

Rebecca Luker was in The Music Man, and she replaced Laura Benanti in Nine, which was written by Maury Yeston, who also wrote Titanic.

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 7:36pm

Avenue Q and Footloose

[shira467]

Posted: 2/8/05 at 7:43pm

Avenue Q - Ann Harada - Seussical - Jen Cody - Hunter Foster - Footloose

Mamma Mia! and Wicked