Poison and Old Ladies
(It’s really called Arsenic and Old Lace.)
It’s a farce like Anything Goes. The Brewsters are a creepy family. The stage lights were kind of like a haunted house. Teddy Brewster thinks he is Theodore Roosevelt. He started digging the Panama Canal in the basement. Aunt Martha and Aunt Abby bury gentlemen in the basement, because they poison them. They’re pretty cooky and spooky. They don’t know what they’re thinking. They don’t know what to do. Jonathan Brewster, who is the brother of Mortimer and Teddy, is pretty sly. Dr. Einstein is pretty sly also. Jonathan is evil. Aunt Martha and Aunt Abby tried to get him out of the house first along with the thirteenth dead body which didn’t belong in the basement with their other dead gentlemen.
Mortimer wanted to see Jonathan and Dr. Einstein out of the house with their luggage and the thirteenth guy. Then, of course, he didn’t know it was his brother because he had been operated on by the surgeon Dr. Einstein to change his face. He realized Jonathan was his brother when he stuck nails under his fingernails. At the very end, Teddy blew his bugle and went away to live with Aunt Martha and Aunt Abby at “Happy Dale.”
-Presented in the Wilhoit Theater at Drury College
March 6, 2009
February 2009
I saw The Music Man at Springfield Little Theatre, directed by John R. “Chuck” Rogers. There was a family in the cast. David DePriest played Harold Hill. Sandy DePriest played Mrs. Paroo. Their sons Eli DePriest played Winthrop, and Brendan DePriest played a River City kid. The play begins with travelling salesmen on a train in Iowa where they met Harold Hill. I really like the quartet songs like Lida Rose & Will I Ever Tell You, and Goodnight Ladies. Harold Hill was starting an all boys band, but he was really taking people’s money. In the end, Harold Hill was captured, but he still got the band together. The band played a Minuet in G.
I went to the Drury Theatre (on February 15) to see Broadway a la Carte! I loved the songs, especially "Be our Guest", "Money Money" from Cabaret, "Notice Me Mr. Horton" from Seussical the Musical, and "The Song that Goes Like This" from Spamelot. At the end of this song, the guy and the lady kissed. I liked the lyrics to "Racing with the Clock" from The Pajama Game. I liked the dancing in "Everyone is a Little Bit Racist". I wanted to dance and sing with the performers. Tell your mom if you want to see this performance so she can buy tickets.
I went to Hammons Hall for the performing arts (on February 14).
Andrew Russo was guest soloist that played the piano (with the Springfield Symphony). He played the piano fast. He played Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag as an encore.
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) Composed West Side Story. I wanted to sing along.
Richard Addinsell (1904-1977) Composed Warsaw Concerto from the film Dangerous Moonlight. It was slow and drowsy music, I almost fell asleep.
January 2009
I went to the Springfield Symphony when they played the Sound The Horn concert. I loved it all. What kept me awake is "Adagio for Strings." Julia Pilant did the horn. She spit in it and performed. She is a great musician now, so she plays in New York in shows such as Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, and Young Frankenstein.
Listen to clips of the Springfield Missouri Symphony, under the direction of Conductor Ron Spigelman at:
http://www.springfieldmosymphony.org/
(It’s really called Arsenic and Old Lace.)
It’s a farce like Anything Goes. The Brewsters are a creepy family. The stage lights were kind of like a haunted house. Teddy Brewster thinks he is Theodore Roosevelt. He started digging the Panama Canal in the basement. Aunt Martha and Aunt Abby bury gentlemen in the basement, because they poison them. They’re pretty cooky and spooky. They don’t know what they’re thinking. They don’t know what to do. Jonathan Brewster, who is the brother of Mortimer and Teddy, is pretty sly. Dr. Einstein is pretty sly also. Jonathan is evil. Aunt Martha and Aunt Abby tried to get him out of the house first along with the thirteenth dead body which didn’t belong in the basement with their other dead gentlemen.
Mortimer wanted to see Jonathan and Dr. Einstein out of the house with their luggage and the thirteenth guy. Then, of course, he didn’t know it was his brother because he had been operated on by the surgeon Dr. Einstein to change his face. He realized Jonathan was his brother when he stuck nails under his fingernails. At the very end, Teddy blew his bugle and went away to live with Aunt Martha and Aunt Abby at “Happy Dale.”
-Presented in the Wilhoit Theater at Drury College
March 6, 2009
February 2009
I saw The Music Man at Springfield Little Theatre, directed by John R. “Chuck” Rogers. There was a family in the cast. David DePriest played Harold Hill. Sandy DePriest played Mrs. Paroo. Their sons Eli DePriest played Winthrop, and Brendan DePriest played a River City kid. The play begins with travelling salesmen on a train in Iowa where they met Harold Hill. I really like the quartet songs like Lida Rose & Will I Ever Tell You, and Goodnight Ladies. Harold Hill was starting an all boys band, but he was really taking people’s money. In the end, Harold Hill was captured, but he still got the band together. The band played a Minuet in G.
I went to the Drury Theatre (on February 15) to see Broadway a la Carte! I loved the songs, especially "Be our Guest", "Money Money" from Cabaret, "Notice Me Mr. Horton" from Seussical the Musical, and "The Song that Goes Like This" from Spamelot. At the end of this song, the guy and the lady kissed. I liked the lyrics to "Racing with the Clock" from The Pajama Game. I liked the dancing in "Everyone is a Little Bit Racist". I wanted to dance and sing with the performers. Tell your mom if you want to see this performance so she can buy tickets. I went to Hammons Hall for the performing arts (on February 14).
Andrew Russo was guest soloist that played the piano (with the Springfield Symphony). He played the piano fast. He played Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag as an encore.
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) Composed West Side Story. I wanted to sing along.
Richard Addinsell (1904-1977) Composed Warsaw Concerto from the film Dangerous Moonlight. It was slow and drowsy music, I almost fell asleep.
January 2009
I went to the Springfield Symphony when they played the Sound The Horn concert. I loved it all. What kept me awake is "Adagio for Strings." Julia Pilant did the horn. She spit in it and performed. She is a great musician now, so she plays in New York in shows such as Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, and Young Frankenstein.
Listen to clips of the Springfield Missouri Symphony, under the direction of Conductor Ron Spigelman at:
http://www.springfieldmosymphony.org/
