Word: algernon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first few lines of the Currier House Drama Society's production of The Importance of Being Earnest are truly horrifying. As Lane (Todd Brun) and Algernon (John Goldstone) begin to converse in what are meant to be highly mannered British accents, insidious comparisons immediately flood the viewer's mind--specifically, endless repetitions of Monty Python, or, perhaps, that particularly ill-starred high-school rendition of My Fair Lady...
Falling into the former category are Goldstone and Brun. Goldstone brings to the role of Algernon a languorous drollery that epitomizes the Wildean aesthetic. Brun lets the tiniest hint of whimsy animate his Lane, transforming a minor character into an indispensable...
...Lloyd Webber composed the role of Christine with his wife Sarah Brightman's crystalline voice and fragile Pre-Raphaelite looks in mind. The trick was casting the Opera Ghost. His choice was British Actor Michael Crawford, 45, whom he had heard sing in the 1979 London show Flowers for Algernon and who had appeared in such films as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The Jokers. "The moment I saw him with Sarah at dinner for the first time, I knew there was no point in discussing the casting any further," remembers Lloyd Webber...
News Editor John N. Rosenthal '87 Night Editors J. Lynne Belcove '89 John Halifax, Esq. '87 J. Fernando Kahn '87 S. Lionel Lichtman '88 B. Allison Masters '89 J. Nicholas Rosenthal '87 M. Algernon Saal '87 Editorial Editor N. Sigmund Wurf '87 Features Editors M. Estelle Harris '88 J. Lynn Mnookin '88 Sports Editor J. Arabella Dorman '88 Copy Editor Sarah Bayliss '87 Business Editor Amy J. Merritt '89 Photography Editor John C. Vincent...
...gothic novel described the exotic terrors of old feudal keeps. In the gaslight era, the supernatural took hold of the public imagination, and British authors quickly dominated the field. Their very names suggest creaking Victorian stairways, forbidden rooms and disembodied spirits: Montague Rhodes James, J.S. Le Fanu, Eden Phillpotts, Algernon Blackwood. In the U.S., an alcoholic and sickly journalist led readers down dark corridors that still echo in American and European fiction. Edgar Allan Poe was, wrote D.H. Lawrence, "an adventurer into the vaults and cellars and horrible underground passages of the human soul." He told of disintegrating bodies...