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[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 74: Assorted Performances XIII

If you could travel through time, but only to see something for Research or for Fun, not to change anything, what would you pick? (Yes you may have a babel fish in your ear to translate for you. You are immune to disease and damage as long as you don't interfere).

Lady Be Good starring Fred and Adele Astaire in the West End, 1926

The Premiere of The Lady's Not for Burning by Christopher Fry in 1948.

The Takarazuka Revue performances of 1913-1914

Alan Rickman in Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

Premiere of One Week 1920 starring Buster Keaton

Stephen Sondheim’s adaptation of Aristophanes' The Frogs

The original 9-hr cut of Greed (1924)

1902 Ben Hur stage play

Premiere of Mozart's Magic Flute

Kevin Conroy's Hamlet

Deborah and John Kerr in the Tea and Sympathy Premiere 1953

Madonna's Blonde Ambition Tour

Voting ended onFeb 5, 2025

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[burtonandtaylor]

Richard Burton reads lines from Christopher Fry’s play ‘The Boy with a Cart’ 🎭

[lesbiangaywhtvr]

cast announcement for london bmc5 concert!!

[uwmspeccoll]

Marbled Monday

This week's marbling was found on the binding of a book we've posted about before: Root and Sky: Poetry from the Plays of Christopher Fry. The text was compiled and arranged by Charles E. and Jean G. Wadsworth with collagraph-intaglios designed and printed by Charles E. Wadsworth (1917-2002). Charles E. Wadsworth was a painter, printmaker, and poet who lived in Cranberry Isles, Maine with his wife, author Jean G. Howard-Wadsworth. You can learn more about the book in our previous post here.

The marbling is most closely resembles a traditional stone pattern, but does have some swirling or dragging done using a stylus. The main background is a creamy color, which looks darker in person than in the photos shown here. On top of that is green and black and grey, which are sort of swirled around a bit in an asymmetrical way. Finally there is a mushroom-y purple-y brown sprinkled on top and sometimes swirled into the other colors. It's a very earthy color palette, which compliments the muted mossy green cloth of the spine and slipcase.

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

[fragbot]

For instance, Helen comes, Brushing the maggots from her eyes, And, clearing her throat of several thousand years, She says 'I loved…'; but cannot any longer Remember names.

- from The Lady's Not for Burning, Christopher Fry

[theburialofstrawberries]

Tiger at the Gates by Jean Giraudoux, translated by Christopher Fry

[julesofnature]

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Christopher Fry

[wellconstructedsentences]

Rain riding suddenly out of the air

Battering the bare walls of the sun.

It is falling on the lounge of the blackbird,

Into the heart of the thrush; the dazed valley

Sings it down. Rain, rain on dry ground!

Rain on Dry Ground by Christopher Fry