I have been having to style my hair in a 1962 middle aged matronly hairdo while playing Benjamin's mother in "The Graduate" on stage. (My inner Joan Crawford groans at the fact that I have reached an age where I can only do "mom" roles instead of hot heroines.) Every time I catch myself in the mirror sporting this heavily shellacked updo, I think, "Eeeek! Pentecostal!"
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Could you say some things about how the stage version differs from the well known movie version? I know that in the film version Ben's parents didn't have that much screen time, maybe about three scenes or so. From how you describe the hairstyle, it reminds me of Tammy Fae Bakker, or some other Pentacostal TV preacher type.
TomMcGiverin
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Mar 20, 2019
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It's a pretty small part. Ben's parents only appear in the play 4 or 5 times.
@Deb57 That's kind of what I thought. My favorite part was the ending of the movie. What would the two of them do once they got off the bus? Where would they go and what would they do with their lives?
Glad you are still active with and enjoying theater. It is both sad and true that by age 60 all the female stage roles are no longer romantic leads. On the plus side, there are still cool, juicy roles like Martha in Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf? or the lead in August: Osage County.
TomMcGiverin
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Mar 18, 2019
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Remember the quote --" The higher the hairdo, the closer to God" 
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