Forever Plaid

Forever Plaid

Forever Plaid

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Forever Plaid

"A 1950s close-harmony band has one last shot at glory."

2009

1h 25m

8.0(1 votes)

Comedy

Music

Overview

Forever Plaid is an affectionate musical homage to the close-harmony 'guy groups' that reached the height of their popularity during the 1950s. This quartet of high-school chums, and their earnest dreams of recording an album, ended (symbolically, and even literally) in death, when their cherry red '54 Mercury collided with a bus filled with Catholic schoolgirls on their way to see the Beatles' American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. The girls were fine. The play begins with the wondrous and wondering Plaids returning from the afterlife for one final chance at musical glory.

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Stan Chandler

Jinx

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David Engel

Smudge

David Engel

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Larry Raben

Sparky

Larry Raben

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Daniel Reichard

Francis

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David Hyde Pierce

The Narrator

David Hyde Pierce

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Clint Catalyst

Self

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