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00:17Previously on American Classic, I'm producing and directing Thornton Wilder's Our Town.
00:23We 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.
00:40Holy shit, you got into Penn!
00:41Do not tell my mom, okay?
00:43It's been dream of life to see Paris in France.
00:47How much would it cost to put her into the show?
00:49Can we just keep this between the two of us?
01:01Hi.
01:03Nadia.
01:03Pat.
01:04Pat.
01:05Nice to meet you.
01:06Hi.
01:07Nadia.
01:07Pat.
01:08Pat.
01:08Pat.
01:09Pat and Pat.
01:10Yes.
01:11Talk soon.
01:12You gave me your phone number.
01:13You bet.
01:14Perfect.
01:16What?
01:17What 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, bigger one, and it'll need to be plumbed in.
01:33Okay.
01:34Not a problem.
01:35Whatever that is.
01:36We can afford it.
01:37We can afford artisans of every stripe.
01:39Painters, carpenters.
01:41I 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 Biel, I'm meeting your dad.
01:57He's like old you.
01:59Hello.
02:00Huh.
02:00Yes.
02:01He went that way after all.
02:02He's got hidden resources.
02:07Our town.
02:09What is it?
02:13It's...
02:13Randall?
02:14It's a play.
02:16Exactly.
02:17It's a play.
02:18Set in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire at the turn of the last century.
02:24It is a moving portrait of what it means to be human.
02:32Now, traditionally, productions adhere to the first stage direction in the text.
02:37No curtains.
02:38No scenery.
02:40No.
02:40The audience arrives and sees an empty stage.
02:43Well, that, my friends, is the past.
02:48Hugo, I have a vision for another town.
02:56I see it as full of sensuous detail.
03:01Richard Biel.
03:03Richard Biel, are these people in this photo naked?
03:06What?
03:07No, they're not naked.
03:10What 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, no, no, no.
03:20These are called mood boards.
03:23Because you are a great artist, Richard Bean.
03:26I will be naked for this art.
03:28Now, who is with me?
03:29No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
03:32No one is naked in my vision.
03:35No.
03:35But what I do see are sunflowers and heliotropes and mud.
03:41Real mud in the cemetery.
03:43I see a real working soda fountain.
03:46I see a horse.
03:47I see real rain.
03:49Yes?
03:50Is this rehearsal deal going to 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.
04:08Uh, Hugo, what is the current, uh, Broadway minimum for...
04:11Just now, it's 2,439 US dollars per week.
04:17So, that's what you'll be paid.
04:19My 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,
04:37and, um...
04:39Something about you.
04:40And something about me.
04:41No, no.
04:41Something about themselves.
04:43And something...
04:43Something about them.
04:46Something about yourselves.
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.
04:57I'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.
05:21Uh, 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.
05:38But if you ask me all this astrology, it's just a bunch of bullcrap.
05:41Pardon my French.
05:42You're really married.
05:44Not fake married.
05:45You know, intimately and, uh, somewhat passive-aggressively.
05:49Enmeshed.
05:50I'm Dr. Derek Seal.
05:52Uh, I play Doc Gibbs and, um, I'm a Leo.
05:56I'm recently divorced.
05:59Uh, my daughter said I should do something.
06:00So I'm doing this.
06:04Oh, I don't have the ball.
06:06Sorry.
06:07Yes.
06:07And 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.
06:29I'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.
06:41Jim and I, as we already said before.
06:43And I, uh, 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 whatever.
06:57Um, but I am Miranda's real-life love interest, because I'm her boyfriend.
07:03And I am a Sagittarius, so I'm also creative and a warrior.
07:10Take fast!
07:11Ah!
07:12Oh!
07:14Oh!
07:15Oh!
07:15Oh!
07:15Oh my God!
07:17Oh, are you okay?
07:20Oh my God!
07:22Oh my God!
07:23What are you doing?
07:25Oh!
07:26Oh!
07:27Oh!
07:29Now that the bleeding has stopped, let's read the play.
07:34Hugo will read the stage directions.
07:36our town act one no curtain no scene oh lots of scenery
07:49i wash it and ironed the blue gingham for you special gingham gingham gingham gingham
08:11perfect great work
08:17mother gibbs it's george dear just rest yourself mother gibbs yes emily
08:28they don't understand do they no dear they don't understand
08:38oh uh take a break wonderful work give them a 10 yeah take 10 minutes everyone yeah just 10 minutes
08:46thanks dad is doing unbelievable work and miranda is gonna be a better emily than you
08:53yeah you should come and join in maybe come on monday and join our circle of truth
09:00you know something i don't miss theater games i honestly can't think of anything i'd rather do less
09:07oh so this is the temple of art
09:15who do i give my my cabaret seat oh uh oh there he is hi polly good to see you
09:22go hi thank you for doing
09:26yes oh uh this is uh this is polly christian oh my god this is the famous christian
09:38it's very nice to to finally meet you i've i've of course i'm a big fan and i can't wait
09:43to see what
09:44you what you do with richard's vision oh let me too thank you no thank you darling oh can i
09:50just just
09:51one a you are gorgeous and b you don't know what it means to me to meet another person who
10:00has had to
10:00live with this man did he ever steal your concealer uh borrowed never stole oh come on but you're not
10:09you're not to be trusted around reflective surfaces are you no no are you darling papa says you spend
10:15hours in the bathroom my son is an actor his face is important to him it's important to many why
10:23don't
10:23we change the subject from me to well the play for instance yes let's move on from my big brother's
10:29eccentricities and 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
10:44just for the play he 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
10:59i was with james niederlander at the jimmy awards last week and he told me that you called and asked
11:06him to invest and he told you that he was just dying to get into bed with a raging psychopath
11:11didn't
11:11me darling yes that was the general thrust of what listen i didn't want to bring this up i didn't
11:18want to make it all about me but i've decided to pay for the production myself but with what i
11:25mean
11:25no i don't mean to sound bleak pet but you have no money i mean at least that's what you
11:31claimed when
11:32we got divorced don't forget i i it was the art collection i have the yes wasn't it richard i
11:38believe
11:38he got that in the settlement you sold our art collection i didn't sell the whole art collection
11:43darling no don't be silly i only sold uh the uh shicklegruber the shicklegruber wait which one was
11:52that the shicklegruber was the big the big moody dark dark dark crazy crazy crazy expressionistic
12:01ish um yeah it was uh i sold it to a very moody uh japanese uh businessman from uh japan
12:14somewhere
12:14mm-hmm yeah for a very good price shicklegruber is adolf hitler's family name no no relation no no no
12:25these um these shicklegrubers were from lichtenstein yeah the lichtensteinian shicklegrubers
12:30i don't remember the shicklegruber oh darling since it was in storage most of the time because
12:37they did it troubled people you would have hated it
12:44i come seeking refuge put me to work you here can juice these lemons and oranges sure
12:56you know it's funny even my whole family beating up on me all at once i i'm happier now than
13:02i've been
13:02in years here
13:06try 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 would you consider coming back here i am back here no no i i mean
13:41i mean staying in millersburg and uh running the theater yeah you might want to run that idea by
13:47kristen first she sees what you're pulling off you know you've got the talent and uh you clearly have
13:54some 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
14:08for everybody like what
14:13boil
14:15has offered to build a restaurant for me in the casino for me to chef oh i see no making
14:23real money
14:24yeah making the food i want to make and that would be incredible right you know miranda she goes to
14:28college in the fall and that we got a little bit put away but you know four years that's a
14:35massive whack
14:36and i just i want to give her every opportunity and i mean i'm not saying i take boil up
14:42on the deal
14:43i just i know you don't trust him you're always saying how he's buying up all these properties he's
14:47he's feasting on people's broken dreams i mean you talk about him like he's satan yes exactly satan
14:54you know he offers you what you want but he always wants something in return usually it's
14:58your soul that's not a good thing maybe a time when you and the devil want sort of the same
15:04thing
15:04and so in that case it might be all right then so you're saying the devil wants you in hell
15:10but
15:11you don't mind being in hell because there's this fabulous restaurant in hell and you are the head chef
15:18we're not getting any younger uh i would say go for it that makes a lot of sense carpe diem
15:28carpe diem
15:31how many of these are there come on here let me do this uh just you know like this
15:38you make it look so easy oh good of you to have the x over oh you know i must
15:48say this is
15:49kind of my weird confession i 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 you know i guess i just don't like playing second fiddle
16:27yeah 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
17:28oh he's a total gobshite yeah never liked him cut you there bye bye thank you for seeing me mr
17:36boyle connor and it is a treat to have you here uh so uh how's our resident genius this fine
17:42day oh
17:43he's well he's well you know the show looks terrific oh i'm not talking about your brother mate
17:48i'm talking about you oh hey oh thanks i'm i'm good thank you thank you um
17:55um so i um i've been thinking about your uh restaurant proposal and i would love
18:06i guess to uh
18:09move forward you guess
18:14you guess no geniuses don't guess i mean your your brother is gifted but what you
18:21do with food is of far greater value than what he does play and make believe all day long you
18:27know
18:27people are going to spend a lot of money eating the food that you make listen can i offer you
18:33a wee
18:33nip well it's a little early to so i mean all i'm saying is i'm all in so i've got
18:41investors who
18:42want to meet you wait investors yeah so we're going to drive down to atlantic city tomorrow after
18:46lunch you know you fix them a meal they fall in love write big checks we're at the crap tables
18:51by
18:5110 shit face by midnight what do you think oh i um i should i should call richard because you
18:57know
18:57i'm doing company management you know what your brother's grand but he's all about richard which is
19:03all 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 that i mean i can do that
19:30good luck i 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 everyone since our play is about people living together on this earth given the brief
19:55amount of time that we have here i thought it would be good to learn some truths about each other
20:04i would stress that anything that is said in the circle of truth stays in the circle of truth
20:14okay so who wants to start i'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
20:28be an actor uh you can uh you can stay in my alcove studio in brooklyn yeah dude i'm pretty
20:34sure it's
20:34not your turn right now the thing is my mom doesn't want me to be an actor she wants me
20:41to go to college
20:42and i just got in i got accepted congratulations but my mom doesn't know about it and she also
20:52doesn't know 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 in the
21:16play here it comes i mean one where i'm not married to her the 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
21:33i 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
22:04just makes me extra aware that time is running out this is depressing yes isn't it i want to speak
22:15from the
22:16heart go ahead i am a gay man i was always a gay man oh boy this is harder than
22:31i 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
22:40improve and make a big change would you be i mean could you be i am now i always have
22:50been
22:51well i love her but she's not a horse oh no no she's a pony we couldn't fit a real
22:57horse in the wings
22:58scooping oh hey has anyone seen my backpack no
23:06i don't know
23:16miranda oh thank you i was sitting on it nice listen did you uh say no to pen not yet
23:24i'm
23:25not crazy am i no you want to be an actress so i made a couple of calls and um
23:33there's an internship
23:34if you're interested at mcc in the fall so it's not the lead in a broadway play but it's working
23:39in
23:39the theater in new york so start you know thank you so much i'd love it my pleasure thank you
23:48you're
23:49you're welcome okay okay
24:01good on you johnny you're gonna win time i'm excited
24:11so let's do an exercise forget about the lines you're just mrs gibbs uh turn of the century wife
24:19of the town doctor um and um we're just going to chat okay all right so good morning how are
24:30you mrs
24:31gibbs how are you hello hi you guy yeah 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
25:01the flag and i'm ironing the 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 boyer ready to go no bother he left hours ago well but he
26:06uh he
26:07wasn't as wasted as he 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 you hit a hot streak
26:20and
26:20you won and you won why wouldn't i want to remember that because then you lost and you lost lost
26:26what
26:27like what like i couldn't keep track you kept running to the atm and then you started talking
26:32routing numbers and wire instructions and finally i just i just got depressed i went to bed
26:38all right all 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 do you
27:20ever
27:20just think that maybe i know what's best for me you know what fuck mirandall and
27:27fuck penn because i'm going to new york no no you are not why not you know how much acting
27:33means to me
27:33because it meant the same thing to you new york will eat you alive oh uh sorry um did i
27:39interrupt
27:39something uncle richard found me a job what do you mean he found you a job well uh i made
27:44a couple of
27:45calls about an internship and i offered her a place to stay with me that's not a job it is
27:53all i have done is listen to your daughter you ought to try that yourself she wants to be an
28:01actress
28:01please stay out of this she has the talent she has the passion so why shouldn't she because it will
28:08make 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 a total betrayer
28:38i'm a what you told my mom about school and new york and now she's losing it and
28:43and you betrayed the circle of truth you're the betrayer you're betraying me with mr actor man
28:48heath yeah 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
29:00and george i don't like it well i don't care go be a crazy jealous person somewhere else don't
29:04go telling my mother my personal where are you going are you going to see him jesus christ
29:19hello 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 niet don't want to kiss you i'm your mentor i'm your
29:39director
29:40and your boyfriend she 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 you said i am big actress you said i am huge yes when i said that i meant that
30:35some of the choices
30:35you make are growing growing a little too large they're outsized they're not natural so if i am not
30:43great then what am i you must tell me the truth you you cannot just you cannot beat my bush
30:50around
30:51oh you want the truth yes you are my mentor i'm your protege what we have if we don't have
30:56truth
30:56you know so mentor me now go tell me all right well you um shape me coach me change my
31:04life go
31:05again 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're
31:29what you are not an actress that you're doing the wrong line of work you can't act
31:36how do you mean you can't act you can't act it's not your thing i can't act no
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
32:01right because then you lose the rain and a little horse and the fountain of soda i understand why i
32:09am
32:09and show now richard bean there's another possibility you could uh of your own volition simply quit just
32:15walk away you insult me richard bean you insult my spirit no one talking to russian women in this way
32:27nadia i'm knowing when it is i'm not wanted richard bean no nadia good evening
32:32nadia nadia nadia nadia nadia nadia nadia nadia i'm back
33:10i'm back
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