| 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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