Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life / PBS / American Masters

White privilege were my thoughts. Edward Albee made him.

My thoughts were that I didn't know that Stanley Tucci was in Frankie and Johnny, but I did know Frankie and Johnny includes full frontal nudity, and now I want to know if there is video footage of naked Stanley Tucci.

Loved the show . I would also like to see shots of Stanley Tucci naked as well as the guy in the show now.

Loved the show. It made me laugh; it made me cry.

It was better than Cats

A remarkable career. At 90 minutes, it was just scratching the surface of his output.

Frankie and Johnny is a play i read and fell in love with, wish I had seen the original production with Kathy Bates (he wrote the role for her) and F. Murray Abraham. I understand the lustful wonder at seeing the revival with Falco and Tucci, but both (especially Tucci) are a bit too beautiful for the roles as they were written. The movie, directed by Garry Marshall with Pfeiffer and Pacino just doesn't capture the play - it had to be opened up and she's way too beautiful for the role of Frankie.

Interesting that they didn't film Tucci and Falco together for this one, because of course they had an affair during the play and Tucci left his wife for a time.

Falco too beautiful?!

NYPL's Library of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center holds a Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, which has filmed versions of most Broadway productions. They have the Bates/Welsh original production and the Falco/Tucci production, but also as a Datalounge bonus there is also a recording of Bonnie Franklin and Tony Musante filmed in 1988! Of course, there is a Restrictive Use tag on them so you will have to say that you are from Datalounge University and writing your thesis on the appearance of peen in the three productions of Frankie and Johnny to get access to watching the video tapes.

Where did Bonnie Franklin play it?

I was a little disappointed by the documentary. Of course there is no way to cover McNally's career in so short a documentary, but it barely touched the surface or much of what he did. And, yes, it did make it seem like his affair with Albee set his career in motion, and made him seem more opportunistic than I would have thought he was. I know it would have made for a boring documentary, but I think I would have preferred a more linear approach to his life, with more of a "Then He Wrote..." section. I've seen so many of his plays, and would have liked to have some some sort of chronological listing of them.

R9 From the catalog: Two videorecordings of the 1988 Off-Broadway production of this play, both taped at the Westside Arts Theatre, are available. The first, taped on Feb. 23, 1988, and featuring Kathy Bates and Kenneth Welsh, is available on NCOV 681. The second, taped on Dec. 22, 1988, and featuring Bonnie Franklin and Tony Musante, is available on NCOV 760.

I can't even...

[quote]They have the Bates/Welsh original production and the Falco/Tucci production, but also as a Datalounge bonus there is also a recording of Bonnie Franklin and Tony Musante filmed in 1988! Of course, there is a Restrictive Use tag on them so you will have to say that you are from Datalounge University and writing your thesis on the appearance of peen in the three productions of Frankie and Johnny to get access to watching the video tapes.

No one wants to see Bonnie Franklin's peen.

Did Bonnie do "Master Class" too?

[quote] Falco too beautiful?!

Too beautiful for the role, he said.

It’s so sad he died of this fucking thing. I mean yeah he was old and yeah everyone dies sometime, but there’s something shabby about this motherfucking-disgusting-PIGS-eating-pangolins situation that makes the fact that McNally died of this TOTALLY MANMADE AND UNNECESSARY plague all the more enraging.

Falco isn't a model, but she's more conventionally attractive than the role of Frankie calls for.

Exactly r17.