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[Freddie]

An expression not used anymore, "Plain Jane and no nonsense".  People often said that to me.  I preferred being asked about Tarzan

Yikes!  What are people who say things like that thinking, except being intentionally unpleasant?

[Freddie]

PAGE FOUR, at long last.

[Freddie]

Page Three.

Fred Flintstone.

I'm glad the days are gone when the name Fred conjured up images of Fred Mertz and Fred Flintstone. 

These days, the most prominent theatrical "Freddie" is the Freddie Trumper played by Aaron Tveit in CHESS.

I can understand that.  I am glad I don't constantly get asked "Where is Tarzan".

That sounds annoying.

At least Jane was more attractive than your Fred's

I figure Fred Flintstone MUST have had something going for him when he was younger, for Wilma to have married him. 

[Freddie]

OUR TOWN is a 1938 play, which means it goes into public domain in 2033 or 2034, whichever year ends the 95-year copyright.

I wonder if the estates for GROVER'S CORNERS, the Jones and Schmidt musical of OUR TOWN, plan to try to get the musical out there then. 

I doubt anyone's thinking that far ahead.

Probably.  They might start thinking about it a few years before 2034.  It could be like the various and sundried GREAT GATSBY adaptations coming at the same time raring to go the year public domain came.

[Freddie]

Maybe with the 95-year copyright period drawing to a close, the Wilder estate might be more approachable about the musical these days, for either productions or a CD?

[Freddie]

Perhaps they might enjoy getting royalties from a Schmidt and Jones musical.

[Freddie]

At least Fred MacMurray was pretty famous from "My Three Sons" and Disney movies when I was young, so I could deflect to him if anyone brought up Flintstone or Mertz.

He was a good Fred.

I remember not really liking the song "Do the Freddie" when I was very young, but starting to like it later on. 

Freddie and the Dreamers - "Do The Freddie"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdnyvtGP-Gg

[Jane]

An expression not used anymore, "Plain Jane and no nonsense".  People often said that to me.  I preferred being asked about Tarzan

Yikes!  What are people who say things like that thinking, except being intentionally unpleasant?

They thought they were witty.  Neither statement was ever done in anything but a friendly way.

[Jane]

Page Three.

Fred Flintstone.

I'm glad the days are gone when the name Fred conjured up images of Fred Mertz and Fred Flintstone. 

These days, the most prominent theatrical "Freddie" is the Freddie Trumper played by Aaron Tveit in CHESS.

I can understand that.  I am glad I don't constantly get asked "Where is Tarzan".

That sounds annoying.

At least Jane was more attractive than your Fred's

I figure Fred Flintstone MUST have had something going for him when he was younger, for Wilma to have married him. 

[Freddie]

An expression not used anymore, "Plain Jane and no nonsense".  People often said that to me.  I preferred being asked about Tarzan

Yikes!  What are people who say things like that thinking, except being intentionally unpleasant?

They thought they were witty.  Neither statement was ever done in anything but a friendly way.

That's great!