Up The Down Staircase (1967) Trailer

Trailer for the NY set school drama, starring Sandy Dennis and directed by Robert Mulligan.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 60s
• Sixties
• 1967
• NY
• teacher
• school
• trailer

[phatnatyouknow]

Esmeralda Santiago is in this movie. where is she though?

[AtLastOnTheGround]

Sandy Dennis is amazing.

[elizarocks5]

our school play was tonight-guess what it was. love this. :)

[gymnastix]

@BurnhamGirlFan And as for George McGovern, he lost that election to Richard Nixon. And we all know (or should) what happened to Nixon.

And today I am a political conservative, many things having changed since 9/11/2001. But I still love rock & roll, and I still love theater, and hope there will always be drama classes in schools, and school plays.

[gymnastix]

@BurnhamGirlFan So I will always be grateful for and always remember that small role I had in a school play, playing the high school principal in a junior high school production of "Up The Down Staircase."

[gymnastix]

@BurnhamGirlFan 20 years later, I was fronting my own garage/punk band, playing nightclubs in Boston and New York. But, in my mind, I was still acting, in effect pretending I was a rock & roll singer, albeit a songwriting one as well. It's a role I had for ten years, before health issues forced me to hang up my microphone.

[gymnastix]

@BurnhamGirlFan It wasn't a big role, only a few monologues in the whole play. But I got to perform, wear the Spirit Gum-applied sideburns, and pretend I was somebody else for a few hours on a few autumn nights in 1972. My dad, my aunt, my stepmother-to-be and her friend, even came to watch the show.

[gymnastix]

@BurnhamGirlFan But then my drama teacher's asssistant director, a pretty student teacher from Emerson College, produced this huge, rainbow-design McGovern button from her shoulder bag, and said, "Jim, George (referring to McGovern, the presidential candidate this act revealed we were both supporting) would want you to be in the play."

How could I possiblly refuse a fellow McGovern supporter?

The kid stayed in the show.

[gymnastix]

@BurnhamGirlFan All I could think of was how my having to be in a school play would cut into my time working on the McGovern For President campaign,

Even though I was only 14 years old, I was the volunteer coordinator of McGovern's campaign in my hometown, had a key to the headquarters and responsibilities to be there as much as I could between after the nominating convention in August until Election Day in November. No little old school play was going to interfere with that, certainly.

[gymnastix]

@BurnhamGirlFan I, too, was in a school production of "Up The Down Staircase." As a junior high school student (I was in 9th grade at the time, so really a high school freshman) taking a drama class in 1972, I was required to audition for all plays, and I found myself cast in "Staircase." I played the high school principal.

When I saw my name on that list, posted on the door of my homeroom, of those cast (right at the very top, the first one cast) in the play, I was horrified.

[Mokkari77]

The British teacher in this is a real douche.

[farcher3]

@tifo316 Ha Ha. But seriously. The youth from '67-'69 really believed that the 'Age of Aquarious' was upon them and there would be peace. The 70s were Nixon & Fords destruction of the Left. From 1968-1992 we have had 20 years of conservstism in the white house with only Carter's 4.