163. Betwixtisode: Get Ready For Season 8!

1985-1986 Nielsen Ratings! (This is for LAST season, Season 7)


[ STAGE ] Tidy Endings (adapted from Harvey Fierstein’s play “Safe Sex”)


[ STAGE ] Broadway Bound TV Movie Trailer

Two things of interest: (1) I was wrong about Anne Bancroft playing the lead on stage. She did the TV movie adaptation in 1992; the role was originated on stage by Linda Lavin. (2) In that same TV adaptation, Jonathan Silverman plays Stanley, the older brother of Eugene. Jonathan actually played Eugene in the big-screen film version of Brighton Beach Memoirs, the first play in the “Eugene Trilogy." Mind fuck! Here is some press from when Joan Rivers took over the role on stage:


[ STAGE ] “Disneyland” song from the musical SMILE:

A different version by Bill McKinley, which is the one I originally fell in love with:


[ MUSIC ] Young Fergie and a Creepy Clown on Kids, Incorporated!


[ TV ] Life With Lucy!


[ MUSIC ] Top 5 Billboard Hits From 1986!