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Personals is an Off-Broadway musical revue that opened at the Minetta Lane Theatre in November 1985. Its comic scenes and songs center on people writing and answering newspaper personal advertisements, so the show presents a series of connected dating and relationship situations rather than a single continuous plot. The credits include writers David Crane, Seth Friedman, and Marta Kauffman, with music by William Dreskin, Joel Phillip Friedman, Seth Friedman, Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz, and Michael Skloff.
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What is the 1985 musical revue Personals about?
Personals is an Off-Broadway musical revue built around people who write and answer newspaper personal advertisements. Its connected comic scenes and songs turn those ads into a series of dating and relationship situations. It opened at the Minetta Lane Theatre in November 1985.
Where did Personals first play Off-Broadway?
The show opened at the Minetta Lane Theatre in November 1985. That places its original production in Off-Broadway theatre rather than on a Broadway stage.
Is Personals a single story or a set of dating scenes?
It is a revue, so it presents connected comic scenes and songs rather than one continuous plot following a single couple. The common thread is people writing and answering newspaper personal advertisements.
Why do newspaper personal ads matter in the plot of Personals?
The advertisements link strangers, hopes, and misunderstandings across the show's dating situations. Personals uses that format to build several relationship sketches inside a musical revue that opened in 1985.
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