a bit about HOME MOVIES
Originally presented by the Judson Poets Theatre in 1964, directed by Lawrence Kornfeld, the bizarrely funny musical HOME MOVIES was one of the first pieces to transfer from the fledgling OOB movement to Off-Broadway. This OBIE winner moved to the Provincetown Playhouse in May of 1964. The play was VERY daring for its time - what Feingold later called "among the bright, mordant, saucy, socially outraged, and sexually outrageous Carmines-scored events to emerge from Judson into the commercial arena." No one is spared the skewer, and yet the play is somehow tender-hearted and brave.
Apparently, no one wrote down the original score (or it has been lost) but we did have a recording of the music to work from that came from Rosalyn Drexler, the only known recording as far as Peculiar Works knew. Information seems scarce on HOME MOVIES. Here's a lovely obituary about the legendary Reverend Al Carmines in The Villager by Jerry Tallmer in which the play is mentioned. As of the spring of 2017, Ms. Drexler is very much still with us at almost 90 and having a bit of a public moment with her Pop Art. An amazing, multi-talented woman (professional wrestler, visual artist, novelist...). Do yourself a favor and look her up. I fell in love with this wacked-out piece and hope to stage the whole thing one day...if I can but find an outrageous producer to match it.
photo credits
top photos Julie Hamberg &. Barry Rowell | tour photos . Stefan Hagen
