User:Evilphoenix/Heidi

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This is a page I am using to coordinate research I am performing for a production of The Heidi Chronicles.

Projector research

Prologue[edit]

Scene 1[edit]

  • 1965
    • Second march from Selma to Montgomery under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr. stops at the bridge that was the site of Bloody Sunday to hold a prayer service and return to Selma in obedience to a court restraining order.
    • March 21 - Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. begin march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery
    • June 3 - US astronaut Edward White makes first US space walk during Gemini IV
    • August 11 - Watts Riots begin in Los Angeles, California
    • October 3 - Fidel Castro announces that Che Guevara has resigned and left the country
    • October 10 - First group of Cuban refugees travels to USA
    • October 15 - Vietnam War: The anti-war student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam stages the first public burning of a draft card in the United States
    • October 28 - In St. Louis, Missouri, the 630-foot-tall parabolic steel Gateway Arch is completed
    • November 6 - Freedom Flights begin: Cuba and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States (by 1971 250,000 Cubans take advantage of this program).
    • November 11 - Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) is declared independent by the white minority regime of Ian Smith
    • November 12 - UN Security Council resolution (voted 10-0) recommends that other countries would not recognize independent Rhodesia
    • November 16 - Disney launches Epcot Center
  • Robert Kennedy
  • Keep the Faith
  • Chapel of Love
  • Ladies Choice
  • twisting and smoking
  • gym class
  • Death, Be Not Proud
  • quoting some play on Page 11?
  • Glenn Miller

Scene 2[edit]

  • 1968
    • January 23 - North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship violated its territorial waters while spying.
    • January 30 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins, as Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks across South Vietnam.
    • February 1 - Vietnam War: A Viet Cong officer is executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan a South Vietnamese National Police Chief. The execution was videotaped and photographed and helped sway public opinion against the war.
    • February 8 - American civil rights movement: A civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken-up by highway patrolmen leading to the deaths of three college students
    • February 24 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted - South Vietnam recaptures Hué
    • March 16 - Vietnam War: My Lai massacre American troops kills scores of women and children
    • March 31 - American President Lyndon Johnson announces he will not seek re-election.
    • April 4 - In the morning after delivering his "mountaintop" speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee.
    • April 23-April 30 - Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
    • June 3 - Valerie Solanas shoots Andy Warhol as he enters his studio, wounding him
    • June 5 - U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy died from his injuries the next day
    • August 22-August 30 - Police clash with antiwar protesters in Chicago, Illinois outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention
    • October 11 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard. Goals for the mission include the first live television broadcast from orbit and testing the lunar module docking maneuver
    • October 16 - Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two African-Americans competing in the Olympic 200 meter run, raise their arms in a black power salute after winning the gold and bronze medals for first and third place
    • November 5 - U.S. presidential election, 1968: In one of the closest elections in US history, Republican challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats Vice President Hubert Humphrey and American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace
    • December 24 - US spacecraft Apollo 8 enters orbit around the moon. Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William A. Anders become the first humans to see the far side of the moon and planet earth as a whole.
  • Eugene McCarthy
  • Janis Joplin
  • Big Brother and the Holding Company
  • Manchester, New Hampshire
  • "Neat and Clean for Eugene"
  • Scoop went to Exeter, dropped out of Princeton.
  • Heidi went to Vassar?
  • Paul Newman

[6], Two portals, grid mounted, Park

Scene 3[edit]

  • 1970
    • March 16 - The Expo '70 world's fair opens in Osaka, Japan.
    • March 18 - Post Office strike in USA - 210,000 out of 750,000 US postal employees walk out. President Nixon assigns military units to New York City post offices. Strike lasts two weeks.
    • April 10 - Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded.
    • April 11 - US spaceflight Apollo 13 launches for the moon, carrying James Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert. On April 13, an oxygen tank in the spacecraft explodes, forcing the crew to abort the mission. The crew returns to earth safely on April 17
    • April 22 - First Earth Day celebrated.
    • April 29 - U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out Viet Cong. Massive protests against the war continue in the U.S.
    • May 4 - The Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed by National Guardsmen at a demonstration protesting against the incursion into Cambodia.
    • August 17-18 - US sinks 418 containers of nerve gas into the Gulf Stream near the Bahamas
    • September 7 - An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
    • October 28 - Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official world land speed record of 622.287 mph (1,001.452863 km/h) on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000 km/h, stands for nearly 13 years.
    • May 9 - 100,000 people demonstrate in Washington DC against the Vietnam War.
  • Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Junior League
  • Consciousness raising rap group
  • Father Knows Best
  • Tricia Nixon
  • Heidi is in grad school at Yale
  • Hostess cupcake

Scene 4[edit]

Scene 5[edit]

  • 1977
    • January 21 - President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders.
    • May 25 - Star Wars opens in theaters.
    • May 26 - George Willig climbed the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
    • June 7 - After campaigning by Anita Bryant and her anti-Gay "Save Our Children" crusade, Dade County, Florida voters overwhelmingly vote to repeal the county's Gay rights ordinance, igniting a wave of violence against Gays across the United States.
    • June 26 - Some 200,000 Gays march through the streets of San Francisco, protesting Anita Bryant's homophobia and Robert Hillsborough's murder.
    • July 13 - The New York City Blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours and results in looting and other disorder.
    • August 16 - Rock singer Elvis Presley dies in Tennessee.
    • October 20 - Three members of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd die in charter plane crash
  • Pierre Hotel
  • Montana Women's Health and Legal Collective
  • Sullivan Cromwell
  • Marcusian
  • Harper and Row
  • Bert Lance
  • Fulbright scholarship
  • Mister Coffee

Intermission[edit]

Act Two Prologue[edit]

Scene 1[edit]

  • 1980
    • March 21 - President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow
    • April 24-25 - Operation Eagle Claw, a commando mission in Iran to rescue American embassy hostages is aborted after mechanical problems ground the rescue helicopters. Eight United States troops were killed in a mid-air collision during the failed operation.
    • May 18 - Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington killing 57 and causing US$3 billion in damage
    • November 4 - U.S. presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter by a wide margin.
    • December 8 - John Lennon is shot outside his New York apartment, by Mark Chapman.
  • death of John Lennon
  • ERB's
  • Three Mile Island
  • Heffalump

Scene 2[edit]

  • 1982
    • April 2 - Falklands War begins: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
    • June 12 - 750,000 people rally against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt are in attendance
    • July 1 - The Reverend Sun Myung Moon marries 4,150 of his followers at New York City's Madison Square Garden.
    • November 13 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
    • December 12 - Women's peace protest at Greenham Common - 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence

Scene 3[edit]

  • 1984
    • Clara Peller is featured in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's for the first time.
      • Which is awesome since we're going into a restaurant
    • January 23 - Pop star Michael Jackson's scalp is seriously burned by pyrotechnics during filming of a Pepsi commercial.
    • January 24 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
    • February 7 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
    • May 8 - The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
    • October 31 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards (riots soon broke out in New Delhi and some 2,700 innocent Sikhs were killed).
  • trendy NY restaurant
  • Diane Keaton

Scene 4[edit]

  • 1986
    • January 28 - Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing its crew of six astronauts and a schoolteacher.
    • April 26 - In Ukraine, one of the reactors at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear plant explodes creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. 31 are killed directly by the incident, many thousands more were exposed to significant amounts of radioactive material, vast territories in Ukraine and Belarus rendered uninhabitable.
    • November 3 - Iran-Contra Affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been selling weapons to Iran in secret in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
  • The Plaza Hotel
  • Miss Crain's School
  • Alexander Pope, theory of the picturesque
  • Zeus sneakers

Scene 5[edit]

  • 1987
    • Wednesday-Friday, October 14-October 16 - The US is caught up in a drama that unfolds on television as a young child, Jessica McClure, falls down a well and is later rescued.
    • October 19 - Black Monday: stock market falls sharply around the world.
    • October 23 - On a vote of 58-42, the United States Senate rejects President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • New York Hospital
    • children's ward
  • Miracle on 34th Street
  • Christmas
  • Theodore Bikel Sings Favorite Worksongs from the Fourth International
  • Books she brings:

Scene 6[edit]

  • 1989
    • February 2 - Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul ending nine years of military occupation
    • February 16 - Pan Am flight 103: Investigators announce that the cause of the crash was a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player
    • March 24 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil after running aground
    • May 30 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10 m (33 ft) high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators
    • October 5 - US TV Evangelist Jim Bakker is found guilty of embezzlement of $158 million
    • October 17 - The Loma Prieta earthquake measuring 7.1 on the richter scale strikes the San Francisco / Oakland area in the United States, killing 63.
    • December 20 - United States invades Panama (Operation Just Cause) to overthrow Manuel Noriega - he takes refuge in the Vatican mission until January 3, 1990.
  • empty room, fireplace.
  • Turner
  • lights fade as Heidi rocks
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