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Revision as of 13:26, 7 March 2021
| Series | |
|---|---|
| Work In Progress | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| 1986 | |
| Cast | |
| Arthur Miller, Paul Mantell, Avery Hart, Lester Nafzger, Joe Frank | |
| Format | |
| Absurd Monologue, Improv Actors, 1 hour | |
| Preceded by: | Cocktails Before Dinner |
| Followed by: | Rose |
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome.
Dreamland is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1986.
Synopsis
Joe announces what's coming on tonight's show: global leaders rigged up as marionettes, the Red Army Chorus, Bruno of Vienna, Bog Man (a 100,000 year old corpse preserved in a peat bog), the Yaco (sp?) people of Guam who have bred with teak trees, thus becoming very hard…
3:40: Somebody tells about the Kapts, a people in ancient Turkey who kidnapped others. Because no one else lived there they kidnapped inanimate objects, then each other.
6:20: Joe tells about his favorite wrestler, Mr Capital, a predatory capitalist who perpetrates all the common crimes of Capitalists. He bought all the organic farms on Long Island, converted them to a theme park, Dreamland. Mr Capital has a sequence of surreal experiences, including throwing a little girl who floats into space.
18:20: Joe calls his bank's automated telephone service, finds his balance is $1.62.
19:30: Joe talks about kidnapping.
24:50: Joe tells of Dr Ostrowksy (sp?) and his wife. He has a sequence of surreal experiences, visits Dreamland, which has fallen into disrepair.
36:40: Joe tells of a punk band's recording session that ends up with such a severe anthrax outbreak that authorities detonate a small nuclear weapon, killing 200,000, to stop its spread. "This story has never been told."
45:20: People (2-3 men, 1 woman) tell how much ransom was paid for them when they were held hostage.
52:00: Joe calls the White House switchboard, can't talk to the president.
53:00: Joe talks to a Yaco person: he's hard.
54:20: Joe eats the sweetmeat recovered from Bog Man.
Music
This is an incomplete record of the music in this program. If you can add more information, please do.
- "Bent Cold Sidewalk" - Tangerine Dream (from Cyclone, 1978) | YouTube
- "Rock Hammer" - Thomas Newman (from Shawshank Redemption Soundtrack, 1994) | YouTube [added to later version; not in the original broadcast version]
Miscellanea
Joe uses the music Rock hammer (a cut from the score of Shawshank redemption) in Dreamland; his character uses a rock hammer in Escape From Paradise.
Commentary
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