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TOKENS: Phil Margo's Theatrical Project Posted: Sunday 05:14PM Oct. 28, 2012 PST
Tokens co-founder Phil Margo has enjoyed a successful second career as a TV producer and writer. He's now crafted an original musical from the same novella that inspired The Goddess of Love, the '80s TV movie starring Vanna White, which he produced. The Tinted Venus by Thomas Anstey Guthrie has now been re-imagined as Oh My Goddess, a romantic comedy with a score drawn from songs Margo and his band-mates wrote or published. But he resisted that all-too-easy temptation to force in The Tokens' number-one classic "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" or their other Top 20 hits of the '60s. Instead, songs that fit the story -- and seem custom written -- such as his "I Hear Trumpets Blow" or colleague Steve Friedland's "Nobody Knows (What's Goin' on in My Mind But Me)," which charted for The Chiffons, were selected. Judging by the initial reading held Friday in a New York rehearsal hall, Margo's whimsical and witty tale of a Greek goddess brought to life in modern times might one day be a neighbor of Jersey Boys and Mamma Mia.
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