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|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/sales Sales][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Sales] | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/sales Sales][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Sales] | ||
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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
<i>Show me the way to go home</i> (Al Hirt) | |||
0:10: Joe lists what he's waiting for: an epiphany, | |||
understanding, purification, exaltation, the second coming, the | |||
revolution, the Spiegel catalogue, a refund from Sears, an | |||
unemployment check, a call from his mother. | |||
1:10: Joe tells of George who works as a sheet music salesman | |||
for a firm in NYC. His colleagues are a depressing lot. George hates | |||
his job. | |||
4:10: He falls for one of his customers, a woman manager of a | |||
music store in St Louis, Carol. He begins calling her at home. She | |||
tells him all about herself. He begins calling nightly; they grow | |||
closer. His calls are the only thing they enjoyed. They decide they | |||
have to meet, but have no opportunity. | |||
7:20: George's company fails; its employees have mishaps, some | |||
fatal. | |||
8:50: Carol travels to NYC for a long weekend in mid-October. | |||
9:10: George chaperones his son's 6th-grade class on a trip to | |||
Restoration village, a replica of a colonial town. | |||
10:10: Restoration village looks like motel cottages. The | |||
kids aren't interested. After a trip to the gift shop and lunch, they | |||
go to a nearby pond and skip rocks. After returning his son to his | |||
(the son's) mother George feels terribly lonely. | |||
14:30: Carol flies to NYC, 1.5 years after they first began | |||
talking. She arrives at 3 AM. George is apprehensive. She's pretty | |||
and petite, seems overwhelmed. They try to make love, but fail. They | |||
spend the day awkwardly. The next day they decide their weekend is | |||
over; she spends the rest of the weekend with old college chums from | |||
Queens. She stays in town for another few days - a really long | |||
weekend. He sees her twice more, once for dinner, another day for | |||
window-shopping. | |||
23:50: George calls Carol in St Louis; they talk for hours. | |||
She was sick with an undiagnosed endocrine condition the whole time. | |||
George doesn't know whether to believe her. His calls tailed off. | |||
24:50: A year later she tells George about her boyfriend, a | |||
trumpet player in a Dixieland band, beating and raping her. She tells | |||
George she was excited by it. George is disgusted with her. | |||
25:40: <i>Show me the way to go home</i> (Al Hirt) | |||
26: Joe lists what he's waiting for again. | |||
26:40: Children singing the song they sang on the way to | |||
Restoration village. | |||
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div> | |||
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"I'm waiting" monologue. A lonely sheet-music salesman based in New York strikes up a connection to a long-distance customer. After a year and a half of phone calls, the customer visits the salesman, and the romance unravels. | "I'm waiting" monologue. A lonely sheet-music salesman based in New York strikes up a connection to a long-distance customer. After a year and a half of phone calls, the customer visits the salesman, and the romance unravels. | ||
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== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{Show Me The Way To Go Home (Al Hirt)}} | {{Show Me The Way To Go Home (Al Hirt)}}<ref>This is the music at the beginning, then again near the end.</ref> | ||
{{Walking (Steve Tibbetts)}} | {{Walking (Steve Tibbetts)}}<ref>This is the background music for much of the episode.</ref> | ||
== Commentary == | == Commentary == | ||
{{commentary}} | {{commentary}} | ||
== Footnotes == | |||
[[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | [[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | ||
Revision as of 20:56, 16 March 2021
| Series | |
|---|---|
| WBAI And NPR Playhouse | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| 04/01/1983 | |
| Cast | |
| Joe Frank | |
| Format | |
| Serious Monologue, half-hour | |
| Preceded by: | The Queen Of Puerto Rico |
| Followed by: | Warheads |
I'm waiting for an epiphany, and I'm waiting for understanding...
Sales is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series WBAI And NPR Playhouse. It was originally broadcast in 1983.
Synopsis
Show me the way to go home (Al Hirt)
0:10: Joe lists what he's waiting for: an epiphany, understanding, purification, exaltation, the second coming, the revolution, the Spiegel catalogue, a refund from Sears, an unemployment check, a call from his mother.
1:10: Joe tells of George who works as a sheet music salesman for a firm in NYC. His colleagues are a depressing lot. George hates his job.
4:10: He falls for one of his customers, a woman manager of a music store in St Louis, Carol. He begins calling her at home. She tells him all about herself. He begins calling nightly; they grow closer. His calls are the only thing they enjoyed. They decide they have to meet, but have no opportunity.
7:20: George's company fails; its employees have mishaps, some fatal.
8:50: Carol travels to NYC for a long weekend in mid-October.
9:10: George chaperones his son's 6th-grade class on a trip to Restoration village, a replica of a colonial town.
10:10: Restoration village looks like motel cottages. The kids aren't interested. After a trip to the gift shop and lunch, they go to a nearby pond and skip rocks. After returning his son to his (the son's) mother George feels terribly lonely.
14:30: Carol flies to NYC, 1.5 years after they first began talking. She arrives at 3 AM. George is apprehensive. She's pretty and petite, seems overwhelmed. They try to make love, but fail. They spend the day awkwardly. The next day they decide their weekend is over; she spends the rest of the weekend with old college chums from Queens. She stays in town for another few days - a really long weekend. He sees her twice more, once for dinner, another day for window-shopping.
23:50: George calls Carol in St Louis; they talk for hours. She was sick with an undiagnosed endocrine condition the whole time. George doesn't know whether to believe her. His calls tailed off.
24:50: A year later she tells George about her boyfriend, a trumpet player in a Dixieland band, beating and raping her. She tells George she was excited by it. George is disgusted with her.
25:40: Show me the way to go home (Al Hirt)
26: Joe lists what he's waiting for again.
26:40: Children singing the song they sang on the way to Restoration village.
"I'm waiting" monologue. A lonely sheet-music salesman based in New York strikes up a connection to a long-distance customer. After a year and a half of phone calls, the customer visits the salesman, and the romance unravels.
Music
- "Show Me The Way To Go Home" - Al Hirt (from Al Hirt At The Mardi Gras, 1962) | YouTube[1]
- "Walking" - Steve Tibbetts (from Northern Song, 1982) | YouTube[2]
Commentary
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