Kevin Kline as Pirate King great video

I can't believe people get away with posting entire movies or DVDs up on YouTube in 10-15 parts!

This production is available on DVD. The quality is so-so. Actually I'm being kind. It looks like a bootleg. And it's mostly long shots, so it's hard to get involved in the performances.

I wish the filmed version (with Lansbury playing Ruth) would be released. I have an old VHS of it, and it's terrific, even though it took a bum rap at the time.

Still, I enjoy this one, too, but not as much. I do like seeing Patricia Routledge as Ruth here. She didn't transfer with it, for some reason, and was replaced by Estelle Parsons for the Broadway run ... who was replaced by Angela in the film.

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I can close my eyes and see the show in my mind at the Delacorte much better after this remembrance.

I worked on a televised production, shot in Toronto, of P of P which was filmed after the success of the Broadway run. It wasn't the Papp production, just basically the original with contemporary singers, including the sadly doomed Andy Gibb as Frederick and Barry Bostwick. I don't have fond memories of the taping, in the old Elgin Theater prior to its renovation into the New Elgin Pink Elephant Theater.

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"Actually, this is a proshot video in Central Park, before the show moved to Broadway. It was filmed from Broadway Archives, I believe."


Yes, I know that. But it LOOKS like a bootleg, referring to the quality of the image and the way it was shot.

It's a very unprofessional, professional video, in other words.

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I am always ready for a good Linda Ronstadt movie!!!