Truman capote a christmas memory movie6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() This year a whole new production will play the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery, Nov. ![]() Penny Fuller starred as Sook when this musicalized memoir world-premiered a year ago at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, CA. Thirty years later, it returned to television as a two-hour Hallmark special starring Patty Duke, adapted and expanded by Duane Poole, who has now authored a new libretto for its latest reincarnation - as a musical, with lyrics by Carol Hall and music by Larry Grossman. ![]() In 1967, a 50-minute TV edition, adapted and narrated by Capote himself, won cheers, tears and two Emmys (for its teleplay and for Geraldine Page's exquisite performance). She is Sook, a lovely loon of an old lady, signaling the start-up of much holiday hustle-and-bustle for herself and her best bud and distant cousin, seven-year-old Buddy (i.e., the boy Capote), in rural Alabama of The Depression.Ĭapote's tender recall of this special friendship first appeared as a short story in Mademoiselle magazine in December 1956 and subsequently enjoyed a variety of multi-media lives. "Oh, my, it's fruitcake weather," announces the fruitcake-in-residence in Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory" one frosty morn about this time of year some 80 autumns ago. ![]()
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