Amen, indeed.  Hal Holbrook is our Mississippi.

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From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark Dawidziak
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 11:10 AM
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Subject: A round of applause, please

Today marks the 60th anniversary of "Mark Twain Tonight!" The very first
performance of this remarkable one-man show was on March 19, 1954, at the
State Teachers College in Lockhaven, Pennsylvania. At 89, the amazing Hal
Holbrook still regularly performs the show that he constantly reshapes and
revises to keep relevant.
      Hal estimates that he has gone through about 16 hours of Twain
material during these 60 years. Since 1975, I've seen "Mark Twain Tonight!"
about 12 times, and I've never seen the same show twice. So, a round of
applause, please, for one of the greatest achievements in theater history
and one of the most important and influential slices of Mark Twain
scholarship. I long ago lost count of how many Twain scholars and
biographers have told me that they got fired up about Twain by seeing this
show performed live or when CBS broadcast it on March 6,
1967 (30 million people watched that night).
     He always has been generous in crediting and celebrating the work of
Twain scholars. "You are the teachers," he told the assembled Twain "family"
in 2009. Let us be generous in recognizing how much his efforts have meant
to us.

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