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00:16Previously on American Classic
00:19I'm producing and directing Thornton Wilder's Our Town
00:22We do not have the money for original productions
00:25What would it take to finance this whole endeavor myself?
00:28A miracle?
00:30You are an artist and you need your own restaurant
00:32You come to see me and I will make this happen
00:34Polly's going to oversee the whole design
00:36Mom wants me to go to Penn
00:38What do you want?
00:39I want to act
00:39Holy shit, you got into Penn
00:41Do not tell my mom, okay?
00:43It's been dream of life to see Paris in France
00:47I much would it cost to put her into the show
00:49Can we just keep this between the two of us?
01:01Hello
01:02Hi
01:02Nadia
01:03Pat
01:04Pat
01:05Nice to meet you
01:06Hi
01:07Nadia
01:07Pat
01:08Pat
01:08Pat and Pat
01:10Yes
01:10Do it
01:11Do it
01:11Talk soon
01:12You gave him your phone number?
01:13You bet
01:14No
01:16What is this?
01:19Oh John
01:22This is Hugo, my right hand
01:24Yes, the one who doesn't always know what the left hand is doing
01:28Richard, the proper espresso machine arrives tomorrow
01:31Bigger one
01:32And it will need to be plumbed in
01:33Okay, not a problem
01:35Whatever that is
01:36We can afford it
01:37We can afford artisans of every stripe
01:39Painters, carpenters
01:40I told Kristen it was only a phone call away
01:43Who's paying for this?
01:44Oh, this is a
01:45This is a result of a very delicate back channel operation with the Nederlanders
01:52I'm sorry, which Nederlanders are we talking about?
01:55Richard, be in a meeting your dad
01:57He's like old you
01:58Hello
02:00Yes, he went that way after all
02:02He's got hidden resources
02:03Yes
02:07Our town
02:09What is it?
02:12It's
02:13Randall?
02:14It's a play
02:15Exactly
02:16It's a play
02:18Set in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire
02:21At the turn of the last century
02:23It is a moving portrait of what it means to be human
02:32Now traditionally productions adhere to the first stage direction in the text
02:36No curtains, no scenery, no, the audience arrives and sees an empty stage
02:43Well that, my friends, is the past
02:49I have a vision for another town, I see it as full of sensuous detail
03:01Richard Bean, are these people in this photo naked?
03:06What?
03:07What?
03:08No, no, they're not naked
03:09What the?
03:11Hugo?
03:12It's sex workers in a bordello in Boston 1905
03:16So you will ask us maybe all to be naked
03:19No, no, no, no, these are called mood boards
03:23Because you are great artist, Richard Bean
03:26I will be naked for this art
03:28Now, who is with me?
03:29No, no, no, no, no.
03:32No one is naked in my vision, no.
03:36But what I do see are sunflowers and heliotropes
03:40and mud, real mud in the cemetery.
03:42I see a real working soda fountain.
03:46I see a horse.
03:47I see real rain.
03:49Yes?
03:50Is this rehearsal deal gonna be during the daytime?
03:54Hugo?
03:55Uh, yes.
03:56Ten till six.
03:57Yeah.
03:57I can't quit my job for play practice.
04:00What?
04:01I can't quit my job for play practice.
04:04But I would remind you that you're going to be paid for it.
04:07Uh, Hugo, what is the current, uh, Broadway minimum for...
04:11Just now, it's $2,439 US dollars per week.
04:16Okay, so that's what you'll be paid.
04:19This is my new job.
04:22This is the magic ball.
04:24What makes it magic is that you can only speak when you hold it in your hand.
04:29You will tell us your name, the role that you play in the show, your astrological sign, and, um...
04:39Something about you.
04:40And something about me.
04:41No, no, something about them selves.
04:43And something...
04:43Something about them.
04:46Something about you selves.
04:47So, I have the ball, so I might as well begin.
04:50Richard Bean.
04:53I am the director.
04:55I am a Scorpio.
04:56I've been praised as an actor my whole life, but I really just consider myself a humble storyteller.
05:08I'm Pat Patterson.
05:10I play Mrs. Webb.
05:12I'm an Aries.
05:14People see me as kind of maybe buttoned up, but inside, I'm this massive romantic.
05:21Oh, uh, I'm also Pat Patterson.
05:24Um, I play her husband, and I'm her real husband.
05:29And, uh, I'm a Cancer.
05:31You're actually a Leo.
05:32July is Cancer.
05:33I was born in July.
05:35You were born on the cusp.
05:36You're a Leo.
05:36Fine.
05:37I'm a Leo.
05:37But if you ask me all this astrology, it's just a bunch of bull crap.
05:41Pardon my French.
05:42You're really married.
05:44Not fake married.
05:45You know, intimately and, uh, somewhat passive-aggressively.
05:50I'm Dr. Derek Seal.
05:52Uh, I play Doc Gibbs, and, um, I'm a Leo.
05:56I'm recently divorced.
05:58Uh, my daughter said I should do something.
06:01So I'm doing this.
06:04Oh, I-I don't have the ball, sorry.
06:07Yes, and I also don't have the ball.
06:11Hi.
06:12Uh, I'm Miranda Bean.
06:14I play Emily.
06:16Uh, I'm a Gemini.
06:17I'm an actor, and a singer, and newly vegetarian.
06:22Uh, I'm a Gemini too.
06:23We're twins.
06:24Oh.
06:24Excuse me, dude.
06:25You don't have the fucking ball either.
06:27Randall, chill.
06:28I'm chill?
06:29He doesn't have the ball.
06:30Jesus.
06:32Um, Heath.
06:34Uh, Heath McArdle.
06:37Uh, George.
06:39Emily's love interest.
06:41Gemini, as we already said before.
06:43And I, uh, I have my equity card.
06:46What's an equity card?
06:49Um, I'm Randall Potts.
06:51I play Wally Webb, who's, like, 11 years old and dead for most of the play, so.
06:57Whatever.
06:57Um, but I am Miranda's real-life lot of interest, because I'm her boyfriend.
07:03And I am a Sagittarius, so I'm also creative and a warrior.
07:10Take fast!
07:11Oh!
07:12Oh!
07:13Oh!
07:14Oh!
07:14Oh!
07:15Oh!
07:15Oh!
07:15Oh, my God!
07:18He's NHL!
07:19Are you OK?
07:23What are you doing?!
07:24Ah!
07:25Oh!
07:26No...
07:26Oh!
07:28Oh...
07:30And now that the bleeding has stopped, let's read the play.
07:34Hugo will read the stage directions.
07:37Our Town.
07:38Act one.
07:39No curtain.
07:40No scen-
07:41Oh.
07:43Um...
07:43Lots of scenery.
07:44This is the first act.
07:48I boshed and ironed the blue gingham for you special gingham gingham gingham gingham gingham
08:03perfect
08:12great work
08:16mother gibbs it's george
08:20dear just rest yourself mother gibbs yes emily
08:26they don't understand do they
08:30no dear they don't understand
08:39oh uh take a break wonderful work give them a 10 yeah take 10 minutes everyone yeah just
08:4610 minutes thanks dad is doing unbelievable work and miranda is going to be a better emily
08:53than you yeah you should come and join in maybe come on monday and join our circle of truth
08:59you know something i don't miss theater games i honestly can't think of anything i'd rather
09:07do less so this is the temple of art
09:15who do i give my my cabaret seat to oh uh oh there he is hi polly good to see
09:22you go
09:23hi thank you for doing this uh this is uh this is polly kristen oh my god this is the
09:34famous
09:35christian oh my god it's very nice to finally meet you i've i've of course i'm a big fan and
09:43i can't wait to see what you what you do with richard's vision oh let me
09:47thank you no thank you darling oh can i just just a you are gorgeous and b you don't know
09:57what it means to me to meet another person who has had to live with this man
10:01did he ever steal your concealer uh borrowed never stole oh come on but you're not to you're not to
10:10be trusted around reflective surfaces
10:12no no are you darling papa says you spend hours in the bathroom
10:17my son is an actor his face is important to him it's important to many
10:22why don't we change the subject from me to well the play for instance
10:27yes let's move on from my big brother's eccentricities
10:31and just take a moment you're good i'm gonna take a moment to marvel at the fact
10:36that he has managed to secure a blank check from the niederlanders the niederlanders yes and it's not just for
10:45the play
10:45he is spreading money all over this town like like fairy dust the niederlanders
10:52yes they're backing our town you have to admit that's pretty incredible incredible yes because i was
10:59with james niederlander at the jimmy awards last week and he told me that you called and asked him
11:06to invest and he told you that he was just dying to get into bed with a raging psychopath didn't
11:11he
11:12darling yes that was the general thrust of what listen i didn't want to bring this up i didn't want
11:18to
11:18make it all about me but i've decided to pay for the production myself
11:22well with you but with what i mean no i don't mean to sound bleak pet but you have no
11:30money
11:30i mean at least that's what you claimed when we got divorced don't forget i i it was the art
11:35collection i have the art collection i believe he got that in the settlement you sold our art
11:41collection i didn't sell the whole art collection darling no don't be silly i only sold uh the uh
11:49the uh shickle gruber the shickle gruber wait which one was that the shickle gruber was the big
11:54the big moody dark doctor crazy crazy crazy expressionistic ish um yeah it was uh i sold it to a
12:06very
12:08moody uh japanese uh business man from uh japan somewhere yeah for a very good price
12:18shickle gruber is adolf hitler's family name no no relation no no no these um these shickle grubers
12:27were from lichtenstein yeah the lichtensteinian shickle grubers i don't remember the shickle gruber
12:33well darling since it was in storage most of the time because they did it troubled people you would
12:39have hated it i come seeking refuge put me to work you here can juice these lemons and oranges
12:55sure you know it's funny even my whole family beating up on me all at once i i'm happier now
13:01than i've
13:02been in the news here try these they're very hot glamorous peas
13:18the hell good good they're um magnificent you make perfect food little brother
13:29here's a question for you
13:32would you consider coming back here i am back here no no i i mean
13:41i mean i mean staying in millersburg the running the theater yeah you might want to run that idea
13:47by kristen first she sees what you're pulling off you know you've got the talent and uh you clearly
13:54have some resources now and well you know you gotta make a success out of this show i know that
14:00and if things go back to how they were i mean not a dinner theater a lot of things become
14:07possible for
14:08everybody like what
14:13boyle
14:15has offered to build a restaurant
14:17for me in the casino
14:19for me the chef
14:20oh i see
14:22you know making real money
14:24making the food i want to make i mean that would be incredible right
14:27you know miranda she goes to college in the fall and that
14:31we got a little bit put away but
14:33you know four years that's a massive whack and i just i want to give her every opportunity and
14:40i mean i'm not saying i take boyle up on the deal i just i know you don't trust him
14:44you're always saying how he's buying up all these properties he's he's feasting on people's broken dreams
14:49i mean you talk about him like he's satan yes exactly satan you know he offers you what you
14:55want but he always wants something in return usually it's your soul that's not a good thing
15:00maybe a time when you and the devil want sort of the same thing and so in that case it
15:06might be
15:06all right then so you're saying the devil wants you in hell but you don't mind being in hell because
15:13there's this fabulous restaurant in hell and you are the head chef we're not getting any younger
15:19uh i would say go for it that makes a lot of sense carpe diem carpe diem how many of
15:32these
15:32are there come on here let me do this uh just you know like this you make it look so
15:39easy
15:42good of you to have the x over oh you know i must say this is kind of my weird
15:50confession
15:52i always wondered if i'd like you
15:56well the reviews are mixed no but i i do i mean i i really do and you were always
16:04you were always so
16:05good to miranda when she was in the city she'd come back just you know full of all the wonderful
16:10times you had and you know i must say i i hope it's okay i say this but you know
16:17i was i was surprised
16:18when i heard that you and richard were getting divorced
16:22well i am yeah i guess i just don't like playing second fiddle
16:26oh yeah yeah i know the career the fans the mirror
16:40no no darling i was i was fine with all of that second fiddle to you
16:49you were the great love of his life i was just someone to drink with
17:01speaking of which
17:04i forgot my bottle
17:24yeah no no i don't want him
17:28ah he's a tall gobshite yeah never liked him catch you there bye bye
17:34thank thank you for seeing me mr boyle connor and it is a treat to have you here
17:39uh so uh how's our resident genius this fine day oh he's well he's well you know the show looks
17:45terrific oh i'm not talking about your brother mate i'm talking about you oh oh thanks i'm i'm good
17:53thank you thank you um so i um i've been thinking about your uh restaurant proposal and i would love
18:06i guess to uh move forward you guess you guess no geniuses don't guess i mean your your brother is
18:20gifted but what you do with food is of far greater value than what he does play and make believe
18:26all
18:26day long you know people are going to spend a lot of money eating the food that you make listen
18:32can i
18:32offer you a wee nip well it's a little early to so i mean all i'm saying is i'm all
18:40in so i've got
18:41investors who want to meet you wait investors yeah so we're going to drive down to atlantic city
18:46tomorrow after lunch you know you fix them a meal they fall in love write big checks we're at the
18:50crap tables by 10. shit face by midnight what do you think i should i should call richard because
18:57you know i'm doing company management you know what your brother's grand but he's all about richard
19:02which is all right and do you know how i know that john is because i'm all about me
19:11now what we need to do is to make you a little bit more about yourself
19:22well i guess i could do that but i mean i can do that
19:29i'm in good lad
19:33i do love craps
19:38this is the circle of truth as the stage manager says people in our town want to know the facts
19:48about
19:48everyone since our play is about people living together on this earth given the brief amount of
19:55time that we have here i thought it would be good to learn some truths about each other i would
20:05stress
20:05that anything that is said in the circle of truth stays in the circle of truth okay so who wants
20:16to start
20:18i'll go
20:21this probably won't come as a surprise for some of you here but i want to move to new york
20:27i want to be an
20:28actor you can uh you can stay in my alcove studio in brooklyn yeah dude i'm pretty sure it's not
20:34your turn
20:35right now the thing is my mom doesn't want me to be an actor she wants me to go to
20:41college and
20:44i just got in i got accepted congratulations but my mom doesn't know about it and she also doesn't
20:53know that i'm going to turn it down interesting yes so now that we're playing husband and wife
21:04i really feel that we're complete opposites on almost every level we're fine i never said we
21:12weren't fine i said we're different people can i fire myself i mean can i play another character
21:16in the play here it comes i mean one where i'm not married to her the choir director that kills
21:21himself yeah well if we're picking parts i want that guy to play my husband oh my god
21:31oh my god i just feel totally completely alone wow thank you this is great this is marriage
21:42kenny has something to say kenny uh this is crazy i think i'm kind of afraid of dying but aren't
21:54you
21:54like the undertaker i know it makes no sense but being around so much death and now working on this
22:02play just makes me extra aware that time is running out this is depressing yes isn't it i want to
22:15speak
22:15from the heart go ahead i am a gay man i was always a gay man oh boy this is
22:30harder than i thought
22:32it doesn't have to be a track casters are fine most of the actors love pushing things on if i
22:39do improve
22:40and make a big change would you be i mean could you be i am now i always have been
22:50well i love her
22:53but she's not a horse oh no no she's a pony we couldn't fit a real horse in the wings
22:58could we oh
23:03hey has anyone seen my backpack no
23:16miranda oh thank you i was sitting on it nice listen did you uh say no to pen
23:23not yet i'm not crazy am i no you want to be an actress so i made a couple of
23:32calls and um there's
23:33an internship if you're interested at mcc in the fall so it's not the lead in a broadway play but
23:39it's
23:39working in the theater in new york so start you know thank you so much i'd love it my pleasure
23:47thank
23:48you you're very welcome okay okay
24:01get on you johnny you're gonna win time i'm excited
24:11let's do an exercise forget about the lines you're just mrs gibbs
24:15uh turn of the century wife of the town doctor um and um we're just going to chat
24:26okay all right so good morning how are you mrs gibbs how are you hello hi you guy
24:38yeah what what did you do this morning
24:43i i waked up okay now remember you're a real person yeah you do real things chores any chores be
24:52specific details are important i wash it and ironed the flag you what i'm washing the flag and i'm ironing
25:04the stars and the stripes so they lying perfectly straight i see okay uh
25:16one last question would you say you're a happy person oh yeah yeah i'm a happy american woman
25:25one lady girl woman and i'm wearing ginnom ginnom yes been working on that one
25:44mr bean hello where am i atlantic city who who is it mel your driver wait just a second
26:00i'm so sorry i overslept is mr boyle ready to go no bother he left hours ago well but he
26:06uh he
26:07wasn't as wasted as you were what time is it uh 2 35 in the afternoon jesus christ you had
26:14yourself
26:14quite a night i did i don't remember yeah it's probably not a bad thing well you hit a hot
26:19streak
26:20and you won and you won why wouldn't i want to remember that because then you lost and you lost
26:25lost what like what like i couldn't keep track you kept running to the atm and then you started
26:32talking routing numbers and wire instructions and finally i just i just got depressed and went to bed
26:38all right i'll wait for you downstairs okay take your time
26:56oh
27:11who told you does it matter does it matter who betrays me yes it does it was randall wasn't it
27:16do you ever stop to think that just maybe people are trying to do what's best for you
27:19do you ever just think that maybe i know what's best for me you know what
27:26fuck mirandall and fuck pen because i'm going to new york no no you are not why not you know
27:32how much
27:32acting means to me because it meant the same thing to you new york will be you alive oh sorry
27:38um yeah did i interrupt something uncle richard found me a job what do you mean he found you a
27:42job
27:43oh i made a couple of calls about an internship and i offered her a place to stay with me
27:49that's not
27:50a job it is all i have done is listen to your daughter you ought to try that yourself she
28:00wants to be an
28:01actress please stay out of this she has the talent she has the passion so why shouldn't she because it
28:08will make her miserable because it made you miserable acting didn't make me miserable you did you gave up
28:13you gave up on yourself and your talent and you left that's on you
28:28hey hey i just came up with the sickest baseline for best of me
28:34what you're total betrayer i'm a what you told my mom about school and new york and now she's losing
28:42it and and you betrayed the circle of truth you're the betrayer you're betraying me with mr actor man
28:48heath yeah what come to my tiny alcove in brooklyn oh my god randall nothing is going on with heath
28:55you guys are always hanging out it's like you're a couple we're playing a couple we're playing emily and
29:00george i don't like it well i don't care go be a crazy jealous person somewhere else don't go
29:04telling my mother my personal where are you going are you going to see him jesus christ what about
29:11morandal hello richard b oh jesus how did you get in here i'm climbing like monkey
29:32you are wanting to kiss me now no no yet don't want to kiss you i'm your mentor i'm your
29:39director
29:40and your boyfriend he seems like a very violent type if you're worried about connor you must know
29:46that he's not understanding how it is you touch me i am dreaming all my life to be actress and
29:52now
29:52i want everything that you can give me there is genius in your fluids wow that's uh that's that's
30:01very high praise i'm sure yeah but it's probably a weird translation of a russian idiom that sounds
30:09just like a bad idea you're always talking about how you want these special alone times together and
30:19i'm thinking oh my gosh this guy he has feelings for me you are always telling me i am great
30:27no i don't
30:29think i you said i am big actress you said i am huge yes when i said that i meant
30:34that some of the
30:35the choices you make are growing growing a little too large they're outsized they're not natural so
30:42if i am not great then what am i you must tell me the truth you you cannot just you
30:49cannot beat my bush
30:50around oh you're the truth yes you're my mentor i'm your protege what we have if we don't have truth
30:56you know so mentor me now go tell me all right well you um shape me coach me change my
31:04life go
31:05yeah okay don't get shy on me little guy okay don't be shy don't be shy you can say but
31:25what you
31:25say you can't act you can't act what you are not an actress that you're in the wrong line of
31:34work
31:34you can't act how do you mean you can't act you can't act it's not your thing i can't act
31:43no
31:46you wanted the truth that's the truth you're not an actress
31:54so fire me then i can't fire you i mean i wouldn't think of firing you i can't right because
32:03then you
32:03lose rain and a little horse and the fountain of soda i understand why i am in show now richard
32:10bean
32:10there's another possibility you could uh of your own volition simply quit just walk away
32:17you insult me richard bean you insult my spirit no one talking to russian women in this way
32:27nadia i'm known when it is i'm not wanted richard bean no nadia good evening nadia
32:33nadia nadia nadia nadia nadia nadia nadia nadia i'm back
33:29i'm not interested in seeing you but of course i think it's nothing I'm thinking about
33:29i'm busy mary you're going to beamı from here
33:32and i can and then i'm going to be a bit of an expert at the the
33:32and i don't have one of my videos in my videos and i'm not sure what i'm saying
33:32if you're sitting on the Growing Eller Denmark
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