Posted by Agnes
on 10/14/2008, 11:30 pm, in reply to "Re: Thank you!"
63.19.14.105
Ruth, what a wonderful report. I am going to print it out because my memory is not half as good as yours even though I was sitting on the edge of my seat so I wouldn't miss anything. I can't wait to hear the next installment. Agnes
--Previous Message--
:
: Is anything missing/changed so far? I know
: there must be because Erin Maguire is listed
: as Mrs. Elton/Mrs. Churchill, and there was
: no Mrs. Churchill as far as I could see.
:
: Was there a scene with her in the production
: you saw?
:
: BTW, I just listed to the Daddy Long Legs
: music on his website and I think I just fell
: in love. :-p
:
: God bless,
:
: ~Ruth
: --Previous Message--
: So glad you had a fun time, Ruth!
: I miss this show.
: I love that they have kept the puppet thing
: in. That's a great scene.
: Can't wait to read the rest!
:
: Long Live Jane and Emma,
: Kathey
:
: --Previous Message--
: I've decided to break up my writeup into
: sections because I have so much to say on
: the subject that if done in one post it
: would be ridiculously long. :-p
:
: First of all, a bit of background. I found
: Jane Eyre about a year ago through a Marla
: fansite. I was immediately hooked and have
: listened to the cast recordings a bizarre
: amount of times.
:
: Then we moved from California to Chicago and
: I think Jane Eyre was the only thing I
: listened to on the long drive up.
:
: I found out about Emma from Mr. Gordon's
: website and listened to that recording a
: ridiculous amount of times as well. when I
: found out it was coming to St. Louis, I
: began to get hopeful. 266 miles isn't that
: far away, right? :-p
:
: I knew my Dad would never let me go alone,
: so I had the problem of finding someone who
: didn't mind driving 5 hours just to see a
: musical.
:
: Several possibilities came and went, and I
: think a lot of the problem was that I was
: insistent on going opening weekend. I really
: wanted to see it at it's freshest and I also
: wanted to meet Paul Gordon.
:
: I finally found someone who was willing to
: take me but not to see the show. 8-O She
: goes to collage in Chicago, but her family
: lives in St. Louis. I was so excited to be
: going and my mom was so excited about not
: having to take me that she offered to pay
: for my friend's ticket so that she could
: still go with me.
:
: did I mention that my Dad paid for this
: whole thing as a birthday present for me?
: :-) Thanks Dad!
:
: This was all decided just a week before, so
: I was very nervous when I called the ticket
: office. Needless to say I got tickets. I had
: the choice of being 4 rows from the front on
: stage right or being much further back but
: in the center.
:
: Well, I had had a bad experience the last
: time I went to see a show. It was Les Mis,
: and I was very excited, but I made the
: mistake of joining my friend's school group
: for their ulra-cheap tickets. No wonder they
: were cheap. We were up on the balcony in the
: very last row. >_
:
: Anyway . . . the week flew by and we drove
: up, with the addition of two more girls who
: wanted in on the fun.
:
: Then the big day arrived and we drove into
: St. Louis, or I should say we tried to. We
: ran into horrible traffic and I was so
: afraid that we'd be late that I'd miss some
: of the show I'd waited so long to see.
:
: We drove up to the theater on the stroke - I
: mean the stroke - of 5:00. then, miracle
: of miracles, the employee out front led us
: to a reserved V.I.P. spot right at the
: entrance! Wow!!! I ran like mad and got my
: tickets and as they were leading us to our
: seat's I could hear the announcer saying
: something about "No cell phones in
: Austen's time", and I realized how
: close we had gotten. *wince*
:
: Then, it started.
:
: Act 1: The Piano Lesson
:
: The show opens with a 2 second scene (blink
: and you miss it) with Emma practicing the
: piano (badly :-D), Miss Taylor comes in and
: says something to the effect of "I wont
: be here to motivate you to you lessons
: anymore because of my marriage."
:
: This gets Emma all excited and as the
: company takes their places for the wedding,
: she begins to tell us of her part in that
: affair. This is of course,
:
: I Made the Match Myself . The first half
: of this song is the actual wedding and
: during that Emma scatters rose petals across
: the stage, as she leads the procession.
: (These petals are never swept away and
: remain for the duration of the play.)
:
: The company then seems to melt away and we
: are transported to Emma's house where she
: repeats to a less-than-enthusiastic Mr.
: Knightly her success. She then decides that
: her next project will be Mr. Elton, who
: appears at the edge of the stage in a beam
: of light. Mr. Knightly is unsuccessful in
: discouraging her.
:
: Mr. Woodhouse is great in this scene and
: says for the first time his oft repeated
: lines "I don't like change !" and
: " Why must young people marry?"
:
: Next the company comes out and announces
: that we are in fact at
:
: Hartfield ; and say a few interesting
: things about it. They melt away once again
: and form a dinner party at said Hartfield.
:
: Here Emma finds the perfect match for Mr.
: Elton in Harriet Smith, and we get our first
: look at Emma's "magic wand." For
: whenever you hear that particular
: "bling" on the piano, you are
: transported into Emma's imagination, a place
: where every one moves as she directs.
:
: With a wave of her hand and a
: bibbity-boppity-boo she transforms Harriet's
: awkward stance into one that is winsome and
: graceful, and turns Mr. Elton's civil
: gesture into a proposal of marriage. On
: bended knee no less!
:
: With her hands she draws them together like
: a puppeteer and sends them dancing across
: the floor.
:
: Next up: Is Harriet a "Gentleman's
: Daughter"? :-D :-P
:
: God bless,
:
: ~Ruth
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