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He was excited about the bike but was having problems starting it so took it for a late night test run around the village on Saturday night. As paramedics battled to save him for about an hour, a devastated local woman who had given Joe mouth to mouth until the crews arrived spoke to Leanne, but she could not take in what was being said. After a week talking non-stop, nonsense to each other for hours at a time Leanne caught a bus to Gloucester to meet him.

It was love at first sight for both of them and they have been together ever since. She does not drive and the close-knit group of neighbours on the street where Leanne grew up remember the first time Joe came to see her. He never really went home after that, he became a dad to Taylor and made friends wherever he went.

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Joe immediately settled into the role as a local handyman and his heartbroken neighbours say they all have bits of him in their homes thanks to his work. Son Jai Jai was born after years of trying for a child and a traumatic caesarean birth and Joe proposed to Leanne on Christmas Day. He is the image of Joe, a real Joe junior. Video Loading Video Unavailable. Click to play Tap to play.

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Joe serves ineffectively as a cheerleader "The Purple and the Brown" , rooting for the Wildcats, whose star player is Joe's freshman classmate Charlie Townsend. Both are pre-medical students and soon become close friends. The friendship helps both; Joe gains entrance to Charlie's fraternity and social circles, while Charlie is allowed to copy Joe's conscientious schoolwork.

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While Joe is at college, Jennie remains at home, and her wealthy father, Ned Brinker, who disapproves of Joe for spending so many years in school before earning a living, encourages her to find other boyfriends. Jennie does not bother to conceal these romances in her letters; Joe is finally fed up, and goes on a double date with Charlie and two girls. Beulah, Joe's date, is initially enthusiastic about the budding romance " So Far " but walks away in disgust when Joe, who is unable to keep thoughts of Jennie from his mind, falls asleep after a passionate kiss.

Jennie breaks up with the boy that Joe was afraid would marry her, and she is waiting for Joe when he returns home "You Are Never Away".

Marjorie Taylor is convinced that Jennie is the wrong girl for Joe, and after a confrontation with Jennie when she tells her this, Marjorie dies of a heart attack. It is the Depression. Joe makes a bare living as assistant to his father.

Brinker's business has failed, and he lives with the couple, who are experiencing poverty for the first time in their lives. The poverty affects Jennie more than Joe—the new Mrs. Taylor dislikes life as an impoverished housewife "Money Isn't Everything". When she learns that Joe turned down a lucrative offer from a prominent Chicago physician, who is Charlie's uncle, Jennie at first rages. When she finds that is not effective, she gets him to change his mind through guilt—if he accepts Dr. Denby's offer, he can earn the money to start the small hospital of which his father dreams and they will have the money to bring up a child properly.

Joe accepts the job, and sadly leaves his father. He soon finds himself ministering to hypochondriacs; he is required to spend time at cocktail parties marked by useless conversation "Yatata, Yatata, Yatata". Charlie is also part of the practice, but the former football star has turned to drink. Joe himself is becoming careless due to the distractions; one mistake is caught by his nurse, Emily, who greatly admires the physician Joe could be "The Gentleman Is a Dope". Denby congratulates Joe on his skills, both medical and social. The elder doctor has less time for a nurse, Carrie Middleton, who has worked at his hospital for thirty years and once dated him, but who is involved in a labor protest—Denby orders her fired at the request of Lansdale, an influential trustee and soap manufacturer.

Charlie, Joe and Emily comment on the frenetic pace of the Chicago world in which they live "Allegro". Joe has become increasingly disillusioned by his life in the city, and worries about his former patients in his home town. He learns that Jennie is having an affair with Lansdale. As Joe sits, head in hands, his late mother and a chorus of the friends he left behind appeal to him to return "Come Home". Joe has been offered the position of physician-in-chief at the Chicago hospital, replacing Denby, who is taking an executive position, or as the elder doctor terms it, being "kicked upstairs".

At a dedication of a new pavilion at the hospital, Joe has a revelation and shifts the path of his life; as he does so, Grandma appears and calls for Marjorie to come watch, an echo of the scene in which he learned to walk. Joe refuses the position, and will return to his small town to assist his father, accompanied by Emily and Charlie, but not by Jennie Finale: Given the outstanding success of Oklahoma! Allegro opened on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre on October 10, As de Mille's husband, Walter Prude, put it, Allegro went over "like a wet firecracker".

The mixed reviews prompted ongoing discussions of the play's merit, continuing well after the first night. After Actors Equity became involved, Rainer was rehired. More bad publicity came when the producers proposed to dismiss several orchestra and chorus members to cut costs so the show might continue through the summer of , and the fired performers also alleged dismissal for union involvement. No London production was mounted. According to Thomas Hischak in his The Rodgers and Hammerstein Encyclopedia , the show made a small profit; [24] other sources state that the show lost money.

The show was popular in the s among amateur drama societies, because of the large cast with no star and the bare stage. It has rarely been revived professionally: Christopher Reeve was the narrator, and the concert was directed by Susan H. This version cut the musical in size and scale. The cast was cut with some characters being combined; the original, lavish orchestrations were simplified. With full orchestra and a cast of 30, the production was designed and directed by Joe Cascone, and became one of the inspirations for the all-star recording.

The production was a major success, both artistically and financially for the company. Although Allegro is filled with music, the music is fragmented, as the characters often break into song briefly. The character of Joe was unusual for a male lead of the time in having relatively little to sing; [28] Joe has only one solo number "A Darn Nice Campus". Important songs are given to minor characters, such as "So Far", given to Beulah, who only appears on the one date with Joe. Rodgers's music is more subtle than in his previous musicals, and his melodies more muted. The key changes are less dramatic than in other musicals of that time.

An original cast recording was released in , heavily abridged. According to Hischak, only Lisa Kirk as Emily shines on the recording, which he calls "sad evidences of a very ambitious undertaking". The recording was made available briefly in simulated stereo in the s, and was reissued in the s in the original mono. The album, produced by Sony Masterworks Broadway , was released on February 3, Another song from the musical, 'So Far', was the B-Side of the 78 rpm record.

The musical received mixed reviews following its opening night. The New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson opined that Rodgers and Hammerstein had "just missed the final splendor of a perfect work of art".

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It takes its place alongside of Oklahoma! Allegro fails where Our Town succeeded De Mille's direction and choreography were reviewed generally positively; Cecil Smith applauded her for the "ease and flawless design with which Miss de Mille brings mobility to these non-dancing [singing and speaking choruses] The Hammerstein-Rodgers-de Mille musical play is either nigh unto perfection or a dismal flop. There's that much room for disagreement. Hammerstein was embittered by audience and critical reaction to his book, and felt they misunderstood it.

Public perception was that Hammerstein had implied that small-town folk were good while their big-city cousins were neurotic and venal. The lyricist objected, pointing out that the worst character in the musical was a small-town girl, but according to Hammerstein biographer Hugh Fordin, "he knew it was his fault that the message was not clear.

It is a law of our civilization, that as soon as a man proves he can contribute to the well-being of the world, there be created an immediate conspiracy to destroy his usefulness, a conspiracy in which he is usually a willing collaborator. Sometimes he awakens to his danger and does something about it. According to Frederick Nolan, in his book about the pair's music, "Reexamined today, Allegro 's main fault seems to have been that it was ahead of its time, the integration of story and music far too advanced even for audiences now becoming accustomed to musicals which actually had stories.

It used a Greek chorus, and tried to tell the story of a life, not through events but through generalities. This is now what would be called a Brechtian approach. A decade after Allegro' s premiere, after learning of his fatal cancer, Hammerstein returned to the musical, hoping to correct its flaws, but he did not complete the project.

I'm not blaming anyone, because we all accepted it, we all collaborated The relative failure of Allegro reinforced the team's determination to have another hit. Author James Michener recalled his meeting with the duo over the possibility of converting his book Tales of the South Pacific into a musical. Those fellows were so mad I was fairly certain that they could make a great musical out of the Bronx telephone directory.

The failure of Allegro only partially tarnished the reputation of Rodgers and Hammerstein; after all, it was a very respectable flop. Yet the long-term repercussions were more serious.

They would continue to come up with surprising and wonderful things, but the days of radical and foolhardy innovation were over. From then on they would stick to the tried and true. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Allegro Original Broadway poster Taylor and Marjorie Taylor "Dance: Retrieved 14 January Easton, Carol []. The Life of Agnes de Mille illustrated, reprint ed.

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Fordin, Hugh []. Getting to Know Him: Hammerstein, Oscar Andrew A Musical Theatre Family illustrated ed. The Rodgers and Hammerstein Encyclopedia illustrated ed.

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