Answer: Both may soon be performed in the nude. Seventy-six trombones, indeed! OK, probably not nude but sans costume at least. According to the Southern Oregon Mail Tribune burglars recently broke into the costume shop of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and made off with the costumes for both shows. They left behind a video camera and some cell phones.
The show's are scheduled to open on the 15th and 13th of February respectively. Since my wife helps with costuming at Young People's Theater, I understand how much work goes into getting a costume just right. I hope they come to their senses and return the costumes.
What are they doing with them anyway? Making their own movie?
Harold Hill: A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?
Lady Macbeth: Screw your courage to the sticking-place.
Mayor Shinn: Not one poop out of you, Madame!
Mrs. Shinn: I think he means "peep"!
Second Witch: By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
Harold Hill (agreeing): Mothers of River City, heed that warning before it's too late! Watch for the telltale signs of corruption! The minute your son leaves the house, does he rebuckle his knickerbockers below the knee? Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger? A dime-novel hidden in the corncrib? Is he starting to memorize jokes from Captain Billy's Whiz-Bang? Are certain words creeping into his conversation? Words like "swell" and "so's your old man"? If so my friends, ya got trouble!
Macbeth: I am in blood. Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er.
Zaneeta: Papa, please! It's 'Capulets' like you who make blood in the marketplace! Ye Gods!
Macbeth: Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
For God's sake, please bring back the costumes!
The show's are scheduled to open on the 15th and 13th of February respectively. Since my wife helps with costuming at Young People's Theater, I understand how much work goes into getting a costume just right. I hope they come to their senses and return the costumes.
What are they doing with them anyway? Making their own movie?
Harold Hill: A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?
Lady Macbeth: Screw your courage to the sticking-place.
Mayor Shinn: Not one poop out of you, Madame!
Mrs. Shinn: I think he means "peep"!
Second Witch: By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
Harold Hill (agreeing): Mothers of River City, heed that warning before it's too late! Watch for the telltale signs of corruption! The minute your son leaves the house, does he rebuckle his knickerbockers below the knee? Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger? A dime-novel hidden in the corncrib? Is he starting to memorize jokes from Captain Billy's Whiz-Bang? Are certain words creeping into his conversation? Words like "swell" and "so's your old man"? If so my friends, ya got trouble!
Macbeth: I am in blood. Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er.
Zaneeta: Papa, please! It's 'Capulets' like you who make blood in the marketplace! Ye Gods!
Macbeth: Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
For God's sake, please bring back the costumes!
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