“PACIFICA PERFORMANCE SHOWCASE”
SATURDAY, 7/18/09:  7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
HOST:  DONNA WALKER

“ACTING: THE FIRST SIX LESSONS” Starring Beau and Emily Bridges

ORIGINAL AIR-DATE 10/04/08 AND REPEATED ON 7/18/09

Is talent hereditary?  Well, if you’re multiple-Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor, Beau Bridges, apparently it is.   Beau, of course, comes from an illustrious acting family, with father Lloyd and brother Jeff, with whom he starred in The Fabulous Baker Boys,”  Beau is now passing on that legacy to his own daughter.  Beau’s father gave him only one book on the craft of acting – Richard Boleslavsky’s  “Acting: The First Six Lessons.”  Beau, in turn, gave it to his daughter, Emily. Today, on Pacifica Performance Showcase, father and daughter perform their adaptation of that significant little book. The time is 1933.  Hitler has been appointed Chancellor of Germany, Gandhi has begun a hunger strike in India, and FDR addresses the nation about the Great Depression.  King Kong is falling for Fay Wray and the Gershwin brothers have a new musical, “Union Square,” opening on Broadway.  The setting is the New York City office of a teacher of dramatic arts.  A naive, young acting student arrives to glean pearls of wisdom on the craft.

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