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Article: A NIGHT WITH DOLLY PARTON.(FRONT)(THE TALK)(Column)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- May 25, 2005
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Byline: Doug Moe
PHIL MARTIN moved to Nashville so his wife could be a country singer, and Phil wound up spending the night with Dolly Parton.
Life is just like that sometimes, which explains as well as anything how Martin wound up in Madison and why, just in time for Father's Day, he is about to unveil a new musical comedy about being a dad.
The head of the theater program at Edgewood College has played that particular role three times in real life, and frankly, as a dad twice over myself, I like the idea of a writer using his offspring as grist for the creative mill. It's a nice turnabout. I think it was P.G. Wodehouse who once dedicated a ...