A while back, I was telling a friend about a tour-de-force scene from the past season of the Amazon series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which I love. The scene took place on the Wonder Wheel in Coney Island. It occurred to me to see if I could find it online – and did. It’s best if one knows all the intricate relationships going on, but it’s still wonderful on its own. A couple things, though, are helpful to know -- She had a job going on tour to Europe as the opening act for a popular singer, but got fired before leaving. She’s divorced from the young man in the scene, but both families are still close. The scene includes both sets of parents, the divorced couple, and their son Ethan whose birthday it is (though the parents lied about the day on his birth certificate). Also, there are two neighbor kids who have next to nothing to do in the scene other than it’s funny they’re along. This particular season of the show takes place in 1959-1960. I was prompted to look for the scene because there was a fun article in Entertainment Weekly about how the scene was filmed, which was a great deal more technically convoluted as it appears. My favorite comment in it was from Rachel Brosnahan (who, by the way, I just realized as I type this is from Highland Park…) who said – “The rest of the cast would be off-screen shouting the lines at each other. We wanted to help each other keep our energy up, so there's this completely insane video [I took] of us all screaming at whoever is in the car. It took two days to shoot it. And by the end of the two days, none of us had voices and we were so exhausted." If you’re interested, this is the article.
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