Alice: An Evening with the Tart-Tongued Alice Roosevelt Longworth

It's June of 1971. And Tricia Nixon is getting married. Every reporter in town is
determined to interview the last bride to be married in the White House, 80-something Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Long before there was a Lady Gaga or a Jenna Bush, there was Alice. She was the daughter of one of America's favorite Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt. She married a future Speaker of the House in a White House ceremony that was the event of an era. But long before she was married, Alice made headlines in an era when tabloid journalism was exploding. She was tall, gorgeous and loved to shock the American public with her antics. She endures -- perhaps because every other sentence she uttered was a sound bite with teeth that still nip. In this play, Alice is being interviewed by an unseen reporter. She offers her opinions on the Nixon presidency -- and several other presidencies in her long lifetime.
But she is also trying to justify her own gadfly existence to herself -- and to her father. The ghost of TR appears in the play to question Alice's version of events and force her to confront the truths in her own life: her unhappy relationship with her daughter, the infidelity of her husband, her own marital indiscretion and her selfishness in general. -- Synopsis provided by Kitty Felde, playwright.

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[NixonisLord]

Why does she sound more British than American?

[skcin7]

What the fuck...

[therealjoebloggs]

Ol' TR is reputed to have said, "I can either govern this country, or control Alice, but not both!" If Alice were alive today she'd probably be Ann Coulter on steroids.

[TheFlanker35]

@whiteej21,

I wasn't at first when until I realized it was a play.

[TheFlanker35]

@1:50,

Is she doing some waspy shtick or is this a serious interview? She's like precursor to The Daily Show. 

Was she really considered a potential VP candidate?

[Chicoandtheman2001]

My gosh, that voice is nothing like Alice. Might be a nice try, but I think I'm too close to Mrs. L to watch someone do a generic, over-the-top old lady impression. "Alice was never old until she was VERY old," as one friend recalled.

[AliceFan1]

When did this play run? I would have loved to have seen it, being such a big fan of Alice.