Joseph Papp Auditions

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Struggling actor Rubin (Eddie Murphy) holds a woman hostage to summon director Joseph Papp for an at-home audition, enlisting both his hostage and the police to sing along to "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" at gunpoint. [Season 7, 1982]

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