I'm in.  I've only seen Hal Holbrook's Mark Twain twice.  Once in the 1950s
in San Francisco, and a year or so ago here in Sacramento.    He didn't
start my Mark Twain focus but certainly served to sharpen it.  As a result,
I became a Holbrook fan and enjoyed seeing him wherever he popped as
whoever.
Arianne Laidlaw


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Mike Stone <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Amen, indeed.  Hal Holbrook is our Mississippi.
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> Dawidziak
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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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