Pump Boys And Dinettes 1982 Tony Awards

I had forgotten about this forgettable play. I was watching the 1981 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on youtube a while ago and I was watching their performance at the parade.

All the men who are standing were good looking. I would do them all back then.

I could picture them all in a scene on an episode of The Dukes Of Hazzard or Dallas in 1982. Dallas was my FAVORITE show in 1982.

I went saw it, it was ok. Very high energy

As a young drama student in the late 80s I went to some seminar where one of the original women from this show made a comment about how silly and stupid and patronizing they were being when they wrote it...and then she got divorced and found herself desperately depending on the royalty checks to put food on the table for her children.

Her message was that as artists we should never think we're better than the material, because if it is worth doing then we should feel a sense of...responsibility (for lack of a better term) and be grateful for the opportunity.

R2- The actors/singers seemed to be enjoying themselves during the performance.

Were they all Frasier types who went to Harvard?

I bet Tony Randall was hot in the pant for the PUMP boys.

He so reminds me of Niles from Frasier.

[quote] Were they all Frasier types who went to Harvard?

IIRC they were NY Broadway actors, making fun of the type of rubes they met "in the provinces", and they slap-dash wrote a large portion of it on a lark during one rainy weekend

OP, are you honestly not familiar with Debra Monk?

I saw a bus and truck production of it in Kearney, Nebraska, where I taught for three years in the mid-80s. In that wasteland, it was refreshing to see professional actors and the material, while hardly deathless, had its charms. I can’t imagine seeking it out on Broadway, but it seemed like it would be a perfect fit for a small-town community theatre.

It was simply one of those small musicals that ran awhile, r8. Like A Day in Hollywood, Tintypes, Romance/Romance, etc.