Puzzle Description:

This one is tricky if you haven't seen the play. I'll put the answer in my first comment.

#1: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Jan 17, 2011 [SPOILER]

The play is Our Town by Thornton Wilder. It has minimal sets and props. The ladders are the upstairs rooms of the protagonists, George and Emily as they speak to each other out open windows.

i had no clue on this one
it looked like a miniature jack and jill standing on baby bottles
haha

I guess you never saw the play.

no sir
no i didnt

moola me!

I thought it was "The Sound of Music." Climb Every Mountain!

I haven't seen the play, but I've heard of it.

I've read the play, wouldn't do it on a bet actually. Some "great plays" seem a bit obscure or metaphysical for even an above average audience... I thought about Sound of Music, too!

I thought the same as bugaboo, and although I saw the play in high school 40 years ago or so I don't remember the story.

I thought they were standing on buildings.

Absolutely wonderful play...not obscure or metaphysical at all. Transcends age, gender and time. We all know these characters...we are these characters.

I did not get the play right, although I recognized it as a boy and a girl on ladders. I totally thought it was The Fantastics...and a pretty good argument could be waged for that, too!

I didn't get it and I was IN it in high school. However, knowing what it is, the illustration is right on. So many of these are movies, as well (including this one) that I was seeing this is the 1976 King Kong with Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange on opposite WTC towers.
I would back JoDeen on The Fantasticks call and agree with her about the transcendental nature of the play. But, like Gary, I wouldn't do it on a bet.

Show biz trivia: the song "Love And Marriage," which was the theme of "Married...With Children," was written for a 50s TV musical version of the play starring Frank Sinatra as the Stage Manager/narrator.

I'm hating myself for spewing all this theater noise. Blame Brian; he started this.

love & marriage was the first song i memorized, as a child, from the radio

I'm lovin this. It is great hearing everyone's stories.

I've gotta say: It's an institute you can't disparage.

We did this in high school, because it was so easy to set up 2 ladders in the classroom.

Two "fingers" up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLWewZO6z1w

Thanks for the link, Jota. I had seen that play when I was young... too young to appreciate it's depth. Very chilling.

Nice puzzle.

;-)

I'm scared, my first thought was "Our Town". I saw a movie adaptation of the play many moons ago, I'm pretty sure it was this one:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081290/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3 . I thought the minimalism was just for that adaptation, I didn't realize it was a scripted thing.

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