Talk:Forever Plaid

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This article needs a reference to musical arranger James Raitt... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.161.128.99 (talk) 16:15, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

I have added an article from his Los Angeles Times obituary; he died in 1994. Flami72 (talk) 11:40, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

First performed

How can 1989 be listed as "first performed" when a review was done in 1988?

Just curious. 2600:8800:785:1300:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 11:58, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for this. I rewrote the production section, luckily there is a NY Times article that explains the sequence of productions reasonably well. Flami72 (talk) 13:12, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Promising production of this coming in March 2024 at the City Theater in Biddeford, Maine. 69.53.10.42 (talk) 08:50, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Huh?

In the "Musical Numbers" section, the song Rags to Riches is stated as "(samples 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly')".

I don't understand how a known and established song --- Rags to Riches --- can sample another song, especially a well-known movie theme song.

I just saw the musical (4 April 2018), and not were the songs done separately, but they are also listed separately in the program. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8800:785:1300:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 21:16, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Or am I missing something? 2600:8800:785:1300:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 12:07, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Date(s)

In the program where a back story is given, the date of "February 9, 1964" is given as the date of both the bus accident and The Beatles first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Since it is such a key date, shouldn't it be mentioned somewhere in the article?

Also, I think that except for one song, all the songs date from before the bus crash. If The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is the song from the 1966 movie of the same name, then it is the one song that dates from two years after the crash.

Since "Forever Plaid" is the show that they would have put on, they could not have known about The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly and could not have had it as part of their repertoire.

This makes for a timeline error that I'm surprised that the writers/producers didn't catch (or purposely ignored).

Just thoughts & comments. 2600:8800:785:1300:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 21:30, 5 April 2018 (UTC)