The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 14.1786  Monday, 15 September 2003

From:           John Ciccarelli <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date:           Friday, 12 Sep 2003 10:40:59 -0400
Subject:        Titus! The Musical

There is something in the air:

>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63210-2003Sep11.html
>
>Something Bard, Something Ew
>Source's 'Titus' Is Missing a Little Tongue in Cheek
>By Peter Marks
>Washington Post Staff Writer
>Friday, September 12, 2003; Page C04
>
>Too bad about Lavinia. Just when the role is looking so promising, they
>have to go and cut out her tongue. Tonguelessness presents a significant
>challenge to an actress. But it's even harder, it seems, on a lyricist.
>
>"Ah ewwwww!" Lavinia, as played by Patricia Hurley, sings in the new
>slice-and-dice rock opera, "Titus! The Musical." "Eorrrrrrrrrr. Ah
>ewwwww!" Budding composers, pay heed: When adapting a baroque bloodbath
>for the musical stage -- a work in which hands are routinely lopped off,
>heads get the ax, infants are stabbed in their swaddling cloths, and
>corpses are sauteed and fed to their mothers -- make sure that the
>defiled, tongueless virgin gets a solo.

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