Word: farleys
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...librettists Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming and songwriter Laurence O'Keefe collaborated on Bat Boy: The Musical, based a creature dreamed up by the WWN staff in 1992. Half-human, half-bat, he was discovered in a West Virginia cave, and proved so popular that the writers had him escape custody every now and then and go on a new adventure. In the excellent musical version, which starred Devin May and had a long off-Broadway run, he is a practically a Christ figure, sacrificed and venerated: "Hold me, Bat Boy, / Touch me, Bat Boy, / Help me through the night...
Clearly not all comics are troubled. Many, like Bob Newhart and Jay Leno, have enjoyed long marriages and relatively quiet lives. But plenty of others, like John Belushi and Chris Farley, died as the result of addictions. No one has studied the mental health of comics specifically - it's pretty hard to get celebrities to agree to answer a nosy mental health survey - but "there's a high rate of mood disorders among performers in general," says Andrew Leuchter, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles who has treated comics. "This is a high stress...
...company that trained such actors as John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Aidan Quinn, Lili Taylor and Lara Flynn Boyle. When he got his job at Second City, the improv group sent out the former high school linebacker in a troupe separate from hyper Saturday Night Live comedian Chris Farley's. "There are certain energies you just need to separate," he explains. A few minutes in, we switch tables at the restaurant because his shoulder feels pinned against the wall, his chair leg is boxed in by a depression in the concrete floor and, he explains, he can't move enough...
...suitable for children” appeared prominently on the production’s playbills, but Swieskowski wasn’t taking any chances.And for good reason: the show’s script—co-written by Swieskowski, Samuel M. Johnson ’06, co-producer Farley T. Katz ’06, Michael C. Mitnick ’06, and Andrei Nechita ’06—was peppered with ear-withering foul language, gratuitous strip teases, glib drug abuse, cringe-inducing 9-11 gags, and blasphemous musical interludes. Fun for the whole family? Hell...
...tells of the love affair between an elderly woman and a teenage boy. “This wouldn’t work if it was an older man and a younger girl. Social norms would be defied if that were the case,” co-writer and producer Farley T. Katz ’06 says of their thought process. “What if those norms were defied?” asks co-writer Michael C. Mitnick ’06. “What would it look like and sound like to music?” adds...