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| A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 03:54 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
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| based on the Oscar Wilde discussion below. This, of course, was a musical based on "The Importance of Being Earnest". This number "A Handbag Is Not a Proper Mother" is a lot of fun, among others in the score. I've never seen a production of "Ernest In Love", but it sounds like it would be a great candidate for Encores Off-Center when that resumes, though of course, it would work better in a smaller venue, being something of a chamber piece. Has anyone some experience seeing it or appearing in a production? | |
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| re: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit | |
| Posted by: larry13 08:33 am EDT 07/07/20 | |
| In reply to: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit - PlayWiz 03:54 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
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| The Irish Rep did a delightful production 2009-10. Beth Fowler as Lady Bracknell and Noah Racey as Jack Worthing were wonderful. | |
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| Takarazuka | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 01:40 am EDT 07/07/20 | |
| In reply to: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit - PlayWiz 03:54 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
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| There used to be a clip on youtube of that song from the Takarazuka production of Ernest in Love. I seem to recall the production added a big chorus to the number. It was a hoot. | |
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| Posted by: young-walsingham 08:31 am EDT 07/07/20 | |
| In reply to: Takarazuka - AlanScott 01:40 am EDT 07/07/20 | |
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| I only seem to hear about Takarazuka recordings (CD or DVD) when they leave mortal ken and turn up with a huge price tag on eBay. Is there a source for information or sales I am missing? There were THREE Takarazuka DVD recordings of Ernest in Love according to the cast album database! Amazon UK list a South Pacific ("unavailable") | |
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| re: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 07:21 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
| In reply to: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit - PlayWiz 03:54 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
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| I saw the Musicals Tonight production of Ernest in Love in Mar., 2007. Lauren Molina played Gwendolyn and Ron Rifkin was Perkins. It was delightful. Dorothy Collins played Cecily in the '57 TV production of the musical titled Where's Ernest?. | |
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| re: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 06:43 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
| In reply to: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit - PlayWiz 03:54 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
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| Many decades ago (1973, to be exact), my public high school speech and drama department in a suburb of Chicago (Oak Park--Oak Park River Forest High School) did "Ernest in Love" as the season opener. I was not in it (we were a large enough school to always have two mainstage productions in rehearsal at the same time, so I was rehearsing Teddy in "Arsenic and Old Lace," which featured Dan Castellaneta as Jonathan Brewster!), but I attended almost all of the performances of "Earnest," because some of my friends were in that show. It was charming and funny with some very lovely and witty songs and enough of the original Wilde dialogue to maintain the style and tone. It was performed in what we called the Little Theater (thrust or 3/4 seating around 400, as opposed to the auditorium which sat around 1500) and felt like the perfect venue for it--it would have been lost in the larger house. The stand-out in a strong cast was a sophomore who was doing her first major role as Cecily and made her solo of "A Wicked Man" thrilling with her already-mature coloratura: her name was Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Oh for the days when people were willing to have higher school taxes in order to give all its students opportunities for the arts as well as athletics! (I think OPRFHS has done a good job of maintaining and even expanding its arts offerings--Ho, Huskies!) |
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| re: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 08:01 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 07:58 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
| In reply to: re: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit - BruceinIthaca 06:43 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
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| I attended Lyons Township High School (in LaGrange) from 1962-'66. Although I loved musicals, I couldn't sing but I did act a little in a few plays. I was Biff in Death of a Salesman, George in Our Town, Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Tony (of course) in You Can't Take It with You, and Giles Corey in The Crucible. I actually auditioned for the role of John Proctor, but was embarrassingly bad -- I just couldn't do lust. Even my best friend (who witnessed my audition) said "You really sucked up there." In college at the U. of I., I didn't want to have anything to do with theatre, but someone told my professor that I had acted in high school and she roped me (literally) into trying out and then playing the title role in Ivanov. In the 70's I taught at Hinsdale Central High School and coached baseball there as well and community baseball into the 80's. Three kids whose names you might recognize who either played on my baseball (yes, baseball) teams or on teams I played against were Isiah Thomas (the Pistons one, who played on one of my teams when he was 15 and also on the St. Joseph H.S. sophomore team), Jeff Hornacek who played against me for LTHS and the LaGrange community team, and Glenn (I never called him Doc) Rivers, who was a left-handed 3rd baseman on the Proviso East varsity baseball team (he was dynamite). Rivers almost played on one of my older teams, but he was a liitle gun-shy about being the only black kid in an all-white league. |
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| re: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 08:39 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
| In reply to: re: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit - BroadwayTonyJ 07:58 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
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| Dang, TonyJ, that’s some sports royalty! As for your high school career, it far surpasses mine. I began as Moth (the lowest ranking fairy in Titania’s court); ensemble in MY FAIR LADY, BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS, THE TROJAN WOMEN, ANDROCLES AND THE LION; the oldest of James Thurber’s batty aunts in JABBERWOCKY; the Nurse in a weird “sequel” to ROMEO AND JULIET called JULIET IN MANTUA; and the twin highlights of my brief stage career were Grandmother Tzeitel in FIDDLER and the female lead in a short play, set in Anglo-Saxon England, by Christopher Fry called THOR, WITH ANGELS. My senior year, I got to adapt, direct, and star as the Wicked Witch in a twenty minute show of THE WIZARD OF OZ (we reused the lion from Androcles), which we then performed at two nearby elementary schools. My best buds playing the flying monkeys, who turned on me after the curtain calls. Nothing like having a mob of the ten-and-under set screaming for your blood! I may not have gotten many cheers in my brief time on the boards, but, by God, did those tykes boo! Laura, watching as the brush fire season takes off... |
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| re: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 07:53 am EDT 07/07/20 | |
| In reply to: re: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit - showtunetrivia 08:39 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
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| To clarify my "theatrical career" in high school and college, the plays I performed in were never part of the Drama Department's productions. In high school they were done by the Honors English Program and in college by the History Department. They started out as readings, but then developed into off-book performances in an auditorium for the student body. Nobody ever paid to see any of the plays I acted in, although I believe some of them were pretty good, at least that is what I remember being told. I remember my high school Drama Department doing musicals like The Music Man and the U. of I. Drama Department doing a number of well-known plays. Some of my friends were in those productions but I was never a part of them. I was a much better baseball coach than actor. |
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| re: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 06:59 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
| In reply to: re: A little "Ernest in Love" to hopefully cheer you up a bit - BruceinIthaca 06:43 pm EDT 07/06/20 | |
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| I’ve never seen ERNEST IN LOVE staged, but I play the cast album often. My favorite is “The Muffin Song,” which I sing (badly) at breakfast many times. Laura |
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