tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29175306.post114930588891831637..comments2023-05-04T04:20:10.423-04:00Comments on Dave's Theater Blog: No Sex Please, We're BritishDave Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554650648344826824noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29175306.post-38097507166666102712007-07-08T12:25:00.000-04:002007-07-08T12:25:00.000-04:00Well, I guess enough time has passed that I can ac...Well, I guess enough time has passed that I can actually comment now. Yes, No Sex Please left me feeling frigid too, and I directed the damn thing. Oh well.<BR/><BR/>The initial thought seemed like a good one ... to spend the first year of Barksdale's new Pops Season (we call it our Country Playhouse Season) re-examining some entertainment icons from days gone by. <BR/><BR/>We started with the quintessential Neil Simon--or at least the first of the two quintessential Neil Simons, and then moved on to the quintessential British bedroom farce and the quintessential Agatha Christie.<BR/><BR/>Plans initially were to end the season with the quintessential example of a comic stage character evolving into a franchise: Everybody Loves Opal (1961) gave birth to Opal is a Diamond (71), Opal's Baby (73), Opal's Husband (75), and Opal's Million Dollar Duck (79).<BR/><BR/>We knew that No Sex and Everybody Loves were not great literature, but we thought it would be interesting to check them out to see how they stood up in 2006. Interesting idea, but it obviously needed someone much more attuned to directing No Sex than I was. <BR/><BR/>I had a great cast and an interesting idea, but I wasn't up to the task. <BR/><BR/>Live and learn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com