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with Kate in the lead sing: "Walk like a man" |
"Luck be Lady" |
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Choreography: Kenny Ortega
Story: Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin
Teleplay:
Directed By: Bill D'Elia
McNeil takes Shutt for a game of "speed golf" early one morning. McNeil enjoys the exhilarating spot, but his partner is less than thrilled. During the game, Shutt announces he has decided to leave Chicago Hope for a teaching position at Harvard. Back at the hospital, Austin tells Shutt that she has accepted the position of Medical Director at the Orlando Women's Clinic. Later, Watters takes Shutt to task for bailing out on his colleagues — people who have worked very hard to keep the hospital afloat. Shutt responds that he needs a new challenge. The acrimony between the pair builds until Watters fires Shutt. Not to be outdone, Shutt announces his resignation. While standing in line at a crowded mini-mart, Shutt complains of a pounding headache. His condition is aggravated by the incessant tinkling of a player piano located in the corner of the store. Losing control, Shutt rips the power cord from the wall, silencing the music. Suddenly, he grabs his head, screams, and falls to his knees. Paramedics transport Shutt to Chicago Hope. Drifting in and out of consciousness, Shutt begins hallucinating. In his mind, he imagines the hospital staff lip-synching to a variety of classic tunes. Tests reveal the presence of an aneurysm somewhere in Shutt's body, but surgeons debate the proper course of action. As Shutt continues to hallucinate, he imagines himself, and an entire surgical team, operating on a patient whose face cannot be seen. Meanwhile, Austin discovers that the aneurysm is located in Shutt's brain. Watters contacts Dr. Denise Potter, who is considered the world's premier aneurysm surgeon. As Shutt again loses consciousness, he imagines a meeting between himself and a singing, piano-playing Jeffrey Geiger. Doctors are somewhat intimidated when Dr. Denise Potter finally arrives at the hospital. Young, attractive, and smart, it is difficult for the other surgeons to believe Potter is the best in her field. After viewing x-rays of Shutt's brain, Potter opts to perform surgery. As the real procedure gets underway, Shutt imagines himself operating on the anonymous patient. In his mind, Shutt laments that he has destroyed his relationships, career and marriage, and feels as if his life is completely out of control. He tells Geiger he is jealous of his emotional freedom...of the pain exorcised through his singing. Geiger then encourages Shutt to sing. Potter locates a portion of the aneurysm, but, in an extremely risky procedure, must feel her way to the neck of the blockage. Potter warns that if the procedure last too long, it could trigger brain damage. The operation does not go smoothly; Shutt's colleagues, watching from the observatory, offer their prayers. Inside the hallucinatory operating room, Shutt pulls back the drape covering the patient's face. The man is none other than himself. Dead. Shutt finds himself in heaven, where Geiger plucks stars from the sky and polishes them. During their conversation, Shutt realizes he isn't Jeffrey Geiger...and also realizes it isn't too late for him to turn his life around. Meanwhile, Potter successfully locates the aneurysm inside Shutt's brain. But the operation took some twenty-two minutes..long enough to cause brain damage.
The piano in the minibar at the gas station plays When the
red red robin comes bob bob bobbing along. When Aaron is
brought to the ER Keith and Dennis lipsynch Dean Martin's version
Ain't that a kick in the head.
(Note in between: A nurse is handing
Keith a glass of whiskey and he salutes to Aaron - in every Dean
Martin show one of the girls around handed him a whiskey).
Then Kate, Billy, Diane and Phillip as Frankie Valli and the Four
Seasons with Walk like a man. With Kate in the lead
(and Diane, Billy and Phillip as background singers) this is very
interesting:
"Oh, how you tried to cut me down to size
tellin' dirty lies to my friends
But my own father said "Give her up, don't bother
the world isn't coming to an end"
He said
Chorus:
Walk like a man, talk like a man
walk like a man my son
no woman's worth crawling' on the earth
So walk like a man, my son...."
Later when Aaron is in bed he hears a piano playing and gets up to find out about it: It's the same ragtime song: When the red red robin comes bob bob bobbing along... (voice from the off: Mandy Patinkin) And when the line: ...wake up you sleepy head... occurs Aaron says: "Jeffrey" as the man on the piano turns around he realizes that it is Jack who turns into Mandy after a few moments: "Where have you been Aaron ?" and Aaron faints away...
When Phillip and Dennis bring Aaron back to the intensive care he has another hallucination: Maricella lipsynchs "Brand new key" (Melanie)
"I rode my bicycle past your window last night
I roller-skated to your door at daylight
It almost seems like you're avoiding me
I'm okay alone, but you got something I need
Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and try them out you
see"
One of the best choices in my opinion is Phillip's lipsynch version „You and me against the world" (Helen Reddy). Even if I would suggest that Hector Elizondo would have been able to sing that song by himself !
"You and me against the world
sometimes it feels like
you and me against the world
when all the others turn their backs
and walk away
you can count on me to stay"....
Then in the OR Aaron hears the team (Keith, Kate, Billy, Diane, Jack and Dennis) singing: „Going out of my head" (The Lettermans)
"Well I think I'm going out of my head.
Yes I think I'm going out of my head
over you, over you
I want you to want me
I need you so badly,
I can't think of anything but you
And I think I'm going out of my head.
'Cause I can't explain the tears that I shed
over you, over you
I see you each morning;
But you just walk past me
you don't even know that I exist".....
And a highlight in the show is Mandy Patinkin's interpretation of „I'll be there". (The Jacksons)
"You and I must make a pact
We must bring salvation back
Where there is love
I'll be there
I'll reach out my hand to you
I'll have faith in all you do
Just call my name
And I'll be there
And oh, I'll be there to comfort you".....
The conversation between Aaron and Jeffrey over his jealousy about Jeffrey's singing leads to Aaron's song (Adam Arkin sings himself) „Luck be a lady" (from the musical Guys and Dolls) with the „Guys": Dennis, Jack and Phillip (the actors really seem to enjoy themselves)
In the last sequence of the show when Aaron sings: „When I'm on my journey, don't you weep after me"... (This song was performed by Aaron when he was a kid and this particular record was used) He discusses with Jeffrey his life and decides to come back to it, you can see scenes from Aaron's life to Jimi Hendrix version of: „All along the watchtower".
"There must be some way out of here,"
said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion,
I can't get no relief
Businessmen they drink my wine,
plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is
worth".....
(By the way this song was written by Bob Dylan but Jimi Hendrix version of it got more famous !)
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Phillip to Aaron: "I
always knew you were self-involved, but I forgave you that because
you are a brilliant surgeon. What I never realized is just what a
putz you are."
Aaron to Phillip: "Phillip, I've given 15 years of my career to you and this hospital. I've supported you, I have been your friend. And I've covered your ass on more than a few occasions. So I don't owe you anything, all right? Not a thing."
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