Hola holaaaaaaa!Ya estoy aquí con el último trimestre lleno de lecturas maravillosas de 2023. Espero que os llame la atención alguno de los libros que me han hecho volar en estos meses y le deis una oportunidad.
Sinopsis:
Escocia, siglo xv.Clarion McLeod acude al castillo de Coill para reencontrarse con Daimh, su antiguo compañero de armas y laird del clan Mackenzie. Cuando la mujer de Daimh,…
Peter Anderson: Hi, my name is Peter Anderson. I'm from Peter Anderson Studio and we created the title sequence to Good Omens Season Two. So this scene is quite literally a continuation from Season One.
An interesting detail with this scene is the fly. The fly is significant because it stores Gabriel's memory.
Gabriel is hidden in every scene. This is the first time we see it.
This goat is half bird, half goat, representing a mistake in a moment of transformation.
In the pickled herring barrel, we have literally red herrings sticking out.
A lot of the gravestones have hidden engravings, easter eggs, all written by Neil.
[This one says: HERE LIES THE FORMER SHELL OF BEELZEBUB referncing Beelzebub having a new face in S2 :), another ones are: EVERYDAY, JANE AUSTEN, Here lies ADAM (the Adam from Adam and Eve is meant)]
Another hidden Gabriel.
Our same character that was trying to escape Hell in Season One titles is also trying to escape here, moving in the opposite direction to the rest of the procession. Except this time he's apprehended and dragged back into the procession.
Our Hell spider from episode four makes a little appearance in the background here.
Can you tell where the bus is going? Director Douglas McKinnon selected Powell and Pressburger's Stairway to Heaven to put on the billboard.
Another thing to note here is the type is all handmade specifically for Good Omens. The Alphabet only exists within the show.
The big floating turnip is a nod to Azirafel's magic tricks.
The Ladies of Camelot poster we pulled from the show.
We added plaques to the back of the chairs and Neil chose who to honour.
[There are: A TALE OF TWO CITIES by CHARLES DICKENS, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by JANE AUSTEN, THE CROW ROAD by IAIN BANKS (twice!) and GOOD OMENS by TERRY PRATCHETT (Neil missing for some reason :) <3)]
Saraqael made an appearance from Heaven.
Our Space is back from Season One. Aziraphale and Crowley are having a little dance here. A moment of flirtation. There's a tiny planet in the middle that comes into existence at this moment.
Our Scottish tartan hills make an appearance here.
The aeroplane and the airline is a little bit of a clue here.
[THY KINGDOM AIRWAYS 👀]
It's raining love hearts in reference to Aziraphale's attempt at making Maggie and Nina fall in love.
Here are elevators to Heaven and Hell. A wee thing to spot. Here is Gabriel in the lift arriving from Heaven.
We've updated our flags to reference some of the plotlines in Season Two. For example, The Second Coming.
The movie poster artwork changes every week, representing the episode plotlines and the minisodes. We made the posters to look like the time period and in this case we've got a Good Omens version of Buddy Holly.
[The posters are:]
In the snack bar some of our popcorn is actually communion wafers.
There are specific characters from Season One in the boxes watching the movie as the procession goes by. This includes some of our original concept art from Season One.
The duck playing the accordion is from a newspaper headline that someone is reading in The Dirty Donkey from one of the episodes.
[this is also from the Good Omens book :): "Daily Mail. 'Letter From America.' Um, August the third," said Newt. "Just after the story about the woman in Worms, Nebraska, who taught her duck to play the accordion."]
Each episode is showing a new movie on the screen, each one selected by Douglas, and has clues about what's to come.
The season one phone box tumbles in the background.
The big mountain is made of all the ingredients from Season Two and a couple of remnants from Season One. We are heading towards the biggest Easter Egg, which is the lift. We're heading towards the Second Coming..
Jane Wyman (All that Heaven Allows, Larceny, Inc., Magnificent Obsession)— I dare everyone to watch All that Heaven Allows and not MELT at Jane Wyman's gorgeous smile ("a silver-tipped spruce?" ugh, what a moment). And also just enjoy her literally playing a MILF opposite Rock Hudson, and in beautiful a Douglas Sirk Technicolor flick, what more could you want?
Dorothy Dandridge (Carmen Jones, Porgy and Bess, Island in the Sun)— The first Black actress to ever be nominated for best actress, Dorothy Dandridge was a groundbreaking actress who deserved better. She started her career as a singer, being put in a song-and-dance duo with her sister by their stage mother, and singing in soundies (I highly recommend cow cow boogie, it's adorable), proto-music videos. She started appearing as a featured singer in films. Her star was on the rise and she soon became a star solo performer. She continued acting, but had limited options because she refused to do stereotypical roles. She finally landed a starring role in Bright Road in 1953, but it was the movie Carmen Jones that truly cemented her as a star and sex symbol. Not to sound cheesy, but she literally sizzles on screen. You can't help but understand how poor Harry Belafonte gets caught in her trap, just look at her. This is the role that got her that Oscar nom. She didn't win cause I mean #OscarsSoWhite, but she was a sensation and continued starring in films, despite troubles in her life (including a shitty director bf who fucked with her career and a traumatizing pregnancy/delivery). Outside of her filmwork, she was also an activist, fighting against racism. She left behind an amazing legacy, and continues to inspire many actresses to this day (including also very hot first (and only) black woman to win best actress, Halle Berry).
This is round 2 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.
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Jane Wyman:
Dorothy Dandridge propaganda:
Beautiful actress and hand-working and talented singer, she's especially notable for the number of firsts she accomplished such as the first African-American woman to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the first African-American woman to appear on the cover of Life magazine.
Dorothy Dandridge was a classic Hollywood triple threat, singing, dancing, and acting with the best of them. She was the first African American nominated for an academy award for Best Actress for her role in Carmen Jones and she was just jaw-droppingly beautiful.
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this og of black film needs no introduction (star on the hollywood walk of fame anyone?), voice of an angel, heavenly features, just an overall stunning lady :)
Look at her!!! She is so unbelievably charismatic in Carmen, it’s insane. Her chemistry with Harry Belafonte is off the charts, and every time she puts another outdoor [sic] on it’s like ‘oh god this is a whole new level of stunning’ 🥵. She was so so talented, when she’s on screen I genuinely dare you to tear your eyes away from her. Deserves to be known so much better but due to Hollywood racism and a tough personal life she didn’t make it as big as she should have done. She’s incredible.
First Black actress to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress! Was the first choice for the role of Cleopatra that went to Elizabeth Taylor (we were ROBBED).
Wolf Hall casting info: who is new and who is returning...
So we have more detailed casting info and an imdb page for The Mirror and the Light.
Mark, Damian, Jonathan Pryce, Thomas Brodie Sangster, Lillit Lesser, and Kate Phillips are all returning for MATL.
Different actors for the following parts:
Norfolk, will now be played by Timothy Spall
Lady Pole, will now be played by Harriet Walter
Stephen Gardiner: Alex Jennings
Lady Jane Rochford: Lydia Leonard
Gregory Cromwell: Charlie Rowe
Call Me: Harry Melling
Richard Riche: Tom Mothersdale
Lady Shelton: Lucy Russell
Eustache Chapuys: Karim Kadjar
Edward Seymour: Will Tudor
Hans Holbein: Thomas Arnold
New characters (click through to imdb to see the actors):
Bess Oughtred, CHRIStOPHE Mary Fitzroy, Martin the Gaoler, Lady Margaret Douglas, Nan Seymour, JENNEKE, Thomas Howard the Lesser, Geoffrey Pole, Thomas Avery, Lady Margaret Seymour, DOROTHEA, Olisleger, Catherine Howard, Anne of Cleves and
From left to right: Sheila Allen as Princess Mary, Katya Douglas as Princess Elizabeth and Jane Asher as Lady Jane Grey in The Prince and The Pauper (1962)
currently reading agnes grey by anne brontë by listening to the audiobook while doing all my drawing for class 🙏🏻 spotify classics audiobooks save me
white noise by don delillo (my bf is going to read libra next so we r going to do don delillo buddy read)
love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcia marquez bc i read 100 years of solitude last summer & loved…
the iliad by homer tr emily wilson bc i loved her translation of the odyssey when i read it in 2022 but don’t think i will have the mental energy for it until i finish the semester 🙏🏻
sense & sensibility bc i’m on my jane austen grind lately (just read emma for the first time & re-read pride and prejudice in the last two weeks lol)
lady chatterly’s lover by d.h lawrence bc i’m interested to see what 1920’s smut is like
shuggie bain by douglas stuart because i borrowed it from the camp library last summer & i need to return it when camp opens in june…
The 1539 gift exchange roll format was a harbinger of the 1557 Marian roll, detailing the king’s family and courtiers with Henry’s added embellishment to the court ceremony. A specially prepared gift chamber with “trestles and boards for the King’s New Year gifts to stand upon” was prepared for Henry to watch during the day as servants brought gifts and received rewards for their part in delivering the gifts. There was no queen in this year, therefore the primary group of close relatives was composed of Prince Edward, Lady Mary, Lady Elizabeth, and Lady Margaret Douglas, the King’s niece. All three children received gilt plate from their father: Edward’s gift weighed 209 ounces, Mary’s gift weighed 123 5/8 ounces, and Elizabeth received 90½ ounces. The gift roll does not record Edward and Elizabeth’s gifts to the king, but Mary’s gift was a chalcedony salt with a mother of pearl lid, all garnished with gold. She gave her brother Edward an embroidered crimson coat with pansies and gold aglets and her sister Elizabeth, a kirtle of yellow satin. The bishops followed as lords spiritual and the other peers in order of their social rank and precedence as lords temporal. The final groupings were courtiers and crown servants with close access to the sovereign. Participation in the gift exchange was an obligation of office or social rank for some and a privilege for others.
— Mary’s Participation in the Ritual of the New Year’s Gift Exchange as Princess and Queen by Jane Lawson, 2022. In Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representation, edited by Valerie Schutte and Jessica S. Hower
My goal is to collect every Penguin Classic that has a black spine and cover, white title, and orange author name because they’re sooo aesthetically pleasing to me. My fun challenge of collecting/amassing them is by finding them exclusively through secondhand purchases (resale shops, ebay, garage sales, used bookstores, etc.) Then I only have to shell out $0-$7 each instead of $10-$30 each!
Penguin Classics
A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrick Ibsen
A Nietzsche Reader by Fredrich Nietzsche
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Dolye
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Angel of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin**
BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara
Caleb Williams by William Godwin
Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London*
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer*
Charlotte Temple and Lucy Temple by Susanna Rowson
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
Confessions by Saint Augustine
Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line by Charles W. Chestnut
Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Boethius
Crucible by Arthur Miller
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley**
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck**
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Hedda Gabler and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
History of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë*
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman*
Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
Memoirs by William Tecumseh Sherman
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka*
Middlemarch by Geroge Eliot
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
Narrative of the Lige of Frederick Douglas, an American Slave by Frederick Douglas
Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle*
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Odyssey by Homer**
On Liberty and the Subjection of Women by John Suart Mill
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Passing by Nella Larsen
Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant
Portable Sixties Reader
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne**
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Song of Roland
Summer by Edith Wharton
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Ancien Régime and the Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville
The Bhagavad Gita
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Guide by R.K. Narayan
The Habor by Ernest Poole
The Hound of Baskerville by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Iliad by Homer
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano
The Lais of Marie de France
The Marquise of O—and Other Stories by Heinrich Von Keist
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
The Odyssey by Homer
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli*
The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturlson
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Three Theban Plays by Sophocles
To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Utopia by Thomas More
Villette by Emily Brontë
A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
Washington Square by Henry James
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Non-Penguin Classics
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath**
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank*
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood**
House on Mango Street by Sander Cisneros
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Last Man by Mary Shelley
The Song og Bernadette by Franz Werfel
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien*
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Collections, Compilations, and Anthologies
100 Best-Loved Poems (American & British)
101 Great American Poems
A Book of Love Poetry
English Romantic Poetry (1996)
Final Harvest by Emily Dickinson
Five Metaphysical Poets
John Donne
George Herbert
Henry Vaughn
Richard Crashaw
Andrew Marvell
Four Great Comedies of the Restoration & 18th Century
Four Great Elizabethan Plays
Great Poems by American Women
Great American Short Stories (1985)
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction by Joseph Conrad
“Youth”
Heart of Darkness
“Amy Foster”
“The Secret Sharer
Louisa May: A Modern Biography by Martha Saxton
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Possibilities of Poetry (1970)
Selected Poetry by D.H. Lawrence
Selected Writings by Gertrude Stein
Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
Short Shorts: An Anthology of the Shortest Stories (1983)
Short Story Masterpieces (American & British, 1982)
Six American Poets (Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Williams, Frost, Hughes)
Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
“A Scandal in Bohemia”
“The Red-headed League”
“The Adventure of the Speckled Band”
“The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb”
“The Final Problem”
“The Adventure of the Empty House”
Six Plays of Strindberg
Tales of Henry James by Henry James
“The Aspern Papers”
“The Pupil”
“Brooksmith”
“The Real Thing”
“The Middle Years”
“In the Cage”
“The Beast in the Jungle”
“The Jolly Corner”
Ten Plays by Euripides
The Classic Slave Narratives
Olaudah Equiano
Mary Prince
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Jacobs
The Essential Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
The Complete Plays of John M. Synge by John M. Synge
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories
The Underground Railroad by William Still
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1990)
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Novels by Samuel Beckett
Molloy
Malone Dies
The Unnamable
Victorian Love Stories (1997)
Women & Fiction (1975)
Literary Criticism
On Poetry and Poets by T.S. Eliot
Speaking of Chaucer by E. Talbot Donaldson
Symbolism and American Literature by Charles Feidelson, Jr.
Benjamin LeRoi. The latest in a long line of French born Australian family of Shakespearean actors. Wanting to get out of the pigeonhole he was raised in he auditions for and wins the role of dashing rogue Balthazar Buckingham in Persey Pantheon’s directorial debut Reincarnate next the highly sexually intriguing Mallory Perrault as Emmeline Atkinson.
Mallory Perrault. A rockstar whose act would make the Pussycat Dolls look like the nuns from The Sound Of Music. Her first acting role is alongside Ben in her half sibling Persey’s directorial debut Reincarnate as the ingenue Emmeline Atkinson and Ben as the dashing rogue Balthazar Buckingham.
Evangeline Grimhilde. An accomplished singer known for her sugary sweet stage persona which she hopes to break out of with her boyfriends latest movie Baby It’s Cold Outside as the seductive demon Seraphina
Douglas Greenman. An EGOT winning director, actor and dancer. He’s been reluctant to cast Evie in his works for fear of nepotism accusations. But she’s finally persuaded him to cast her as Seraphina in Baby It’s Cold Outside alongside him as Reverend Oliver Bentley after a very spirited late night talk.
Carlos De Vil. A sitcom actor known for his role in The Isolation Room as the nerdy technology teacher Miles Carp who has a long winded relationship going with the rebellious art teach Allen Qasim that he oversees detention with. Unfortunately this has led to a rather rabid fan base who insist he and Jay are dating in real life despite the both of them being in very stable relationships with other people.
Jane Babineaux. A rather mousy Broadway actress with a very powerful voice. Carlos’s girlfriend. Currently cross cast in a revival of The Phantom Of The Opera as Erika the Phantom. Tries to be okay with Carlos’s TIR fans. But the invasion of privacy is starting to affect her performance
Jay Tahan. Carlos costar in The Isolation Room. Dating Gil. Decidedly less kind to the fans than Carlos and Jane are to the point that he’s disabled all of his social media accounts except for the shows official twitter account. Sadly no amount of flaunting his and Gil’s relationship has quelled the fandom yet.
Gil Legume. A lead on the adult fantasy epic The Norseland Empress as Viking Chieftain Sigurd Nordling alongside Lonnie as Ancient Chinese Empress Liu Cheng. Dating Jay. The fanbase is for TNE is just as bad if not worse than the TIR fanbase due to all the contractually obligated love scenes that Gil and Lonnie are required to do which the fanbase uses as “proof” of an offscreen romance.
Li Lonnie. Gil’s leading lady in The Norseland Empress. Liu Cheng is her first leading role in a drama show. Her background is Janeane Garofalo type standup comedy. As such. She wasn’t ready for how rabid the fanbase became. But fortunately for her, she’s got Jay on her side to tell the fans where to shove it.
Nedahk Thatch. Singer, dancer, choreographer and actor. Playing Patrick Swayze’s role in a musical adaptation of Dirty Dancing alongside his girlfriend Uma. They’re celebrated for their chemistry. But a favour for her father threatens to overhaul the movie.
Uma Facillier. Actress and singer. The Dirty Dancing musical is her first leading role. Before this her biggest role was one of the muses in an off-off-broadway production of Hercules. She’s enjoying the newfound recognition. If only her dad hadn’t begged her to play act at dating a volatile train wreck.
Harold Hook. A punk rock singer. Wants to be the next Sid Vicious. He doesn’t have a single talented bone in his body. Well. Unless you count his almost prodigious ability to cause scandal and ruin everywhere he goes. It’s gotten so bad that his father and Uma’s dad had to set them up in a fake relationship in the hope he gains some good will from the press. It’s not working.
Persey Pantheon. Actor and director. Reincarnate is their prospective comeback after losing over half of their fanbase when they came out as non-binary. They didn’t plan on Reincarnate being political. But it’s an occupational hazard when you make a movie set throughout and beyond human history
Maddox Hatter. Persey’s girlfriend. Recently played Margaret White in a revival of Carrie but had to be let go after an on stage psychotic break led her to fall to pieces during “And Eve Was Weak” at the start of the eight performance. She’s on medication now and is the researcher on Reincarnate
Hadie Pantheon. Persey’s twin brother. Harry, Mal and Evie’s half brother. Aspires to be the next Johnny Cash. Only he can’t play guitar. He can however play the piano. So he’s settled for being a mix between Johnny Cash and Ray Charles. He’s also a gifted song writer and serves as the lyricist on Reincarnate.
Antony Tremaine. Hadie’s boyfriend and singing partner. Guitarist. Serves as the composer for Reincarnate. Gave Persey the idea for the movie by gifting them The Time Traveller’s Wife for their birthday. He’s also giving Mallory elocution lessons in preparation for the Regency and Victorian segments of the movie.
♱ [marjorie – lily james – 28 – lady] ♱ bienvenidos MARJORIE. you hail from SCOTLAND and have been risen to the position of a LADY. you are a member of the house of DOUGLAS and will go down in history as the LEVERAGED. though you are RESTLESS & STUBBORN, you are blessed with being PERCEPTIVE and ALTRUISTIC. ♱ / penned by K.
She is the eldest daughter of James V, though unlike her ruling half-sister, Arabella, Marjorie has the distinction of being born illegitimate: the product of a passionate union between Jane Douglas and the late Scots king. She is used as a bargaining chip by both her mother and brother, a sagely played card intended to undermine the regency thinly protecting Arabella – which, as every Scot knows, is merely a carefully-constructed house of cards, a singular breath away from collapse.
BIOGRAPHY:
White dusted the Highlands. A stillness known only to winter frosted the air, broken by the occasional crunch of snow underfoot, the hurried trot of shivering horses and wisps of steam emerging from momentarily open doors, behind which faces bitten by cold peered out to watch a brilliant sunset settle over frozen lochs. This was the Scotland that welcomed Marjorie into the world after hours of extensive labor and delivery.
During her earliest years, she was blissfully unaware of the significance of her parentage – a brilliantly happy child, the light of any room she entered with a giggle that could warm the coldest of hearts and lift the deepest of sorrows. But as Marjorie grew, she began to notice the judgmental stares and hushed whispers that followed her each time she was made to curtsy to her younger, legitimate half-sister. She saw the way the people heralded her older brother as King James V’s rightful male issue while looking through her, as if she was nothing more than pretty window dressing.
It might have bothered her had any courtiers ever been bold enough to comment on her uselessness to her face, but they either lacked the courage or wanted to garner favor with her brother badly enough that they wouldn’t dare – or perhaps it was her mother’s status that kept them from speaking out. Mistress or not, between her clan and her relationship to the Scots king, few would risk Jane’s ire. Whatever the reason, Marjorie ignored the quiet mockery, deciding they were all fools.
How could they not see the privilege she’d been blessed with? She was born with parents who could indulge all her interests and she was given reign to explore them fully.
That freedom gave way to a beautiful mind, always thirsting for knowledge, capable of great vision and intellectual feats. Marjorie devoured books in Latin, French, English and Gaelic, feasting on the musings of the world’s greatest thinkers. She studied music and the arts, practiced dancing and piano at her leisure and spent her free time pursuing charitable endeavors, becoming a paragon of ladylike sensibilities. She learned to pay attention, keep aware of court movements and tuck away any morsel of information that might be of use to her, and soon, she had a reputation for kindness. After all, few would remember a book mentioned once in passing by an acquaintance who longed to read it, much less appear with it in hand for them to borrow upon their next meeting.
Marjorie enjoyed that reputation, leveraging it in order to convince others to join her in charity. “There is always a need for extra hands at St. Leonard’s,” she would say, hoping to persuade some lady or other to join her in praying for the sick on her next visit.
She thought perhaps she had won the court’s begrudging respect for those efforts until one evening, shortly after the king had passed, she heard someone suggest amidst the clamor of a bustling ballroom that her pursuits were a waste when she ought to be focused on finding a husband.
The implication that she was only valuable so long as she married well soured her to romance, even though the realities of being the sister of a man with a dynastic claim to bolster had never been hidden from her. She’d always known that she would marry for position, rather than love, and she was practical enough to be okay with that. Such was her duty, and for her family, she would see it done without complaint.
But did that really mean she would never be seen for who she was? That nothing she did would ever matter, aside from that one act?
Those questions haunt her as she watches her mother and brother vie for power, as she feels herself being pushed around like a chess piece in the game of thrones. Marjorie longs to be seen, to be valued. It is her greatest weakness. She dreams, secretly and with the knowledge that dreams are often the cause of a heart’s greatest disappointment, of a husband who allows her the same freedom she’s always been blessed with, not because he wants her out of his hair, but because he recognizes that she is an asset in and of herself.
The details are out on the Feb. 17 release of the Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club original cast recording on vinyl — TWO vinyl LPs to accommodate the music (+ a bit of dialog + audience reaction) in the 1 hour 17-minutes of the seven-Olivier Award winning production. Several UK outlets are offering pre-orders, to be delivered on release day, and you can sign up worldwide here for notifications from the label, Decca Records (scroll to the bottom of webpage for vinyl).
The highly-anticipated, original cast recording of one of the most successful shows of all time: the newly-revived hit musical CABARET, brought to you from the KIT KAT CLUB in London’s West End.
Recorded during a live performance, with the exceptional in-house band at the KIT KAT CLUB, the award-winning original cast stars Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, Tony and Olivier award winner Eddie Redmayne as ‘The Emcee’ and British Independent Film award winner, BAFTA and 2022 Mercury Prize nominee Jessie Buckley as ‘Sally Bowles’. Here, the atmosphere and energy of the show is captured perfectly, for the very first time.
This 2LP is released on Friday 17th February.
Tracklisting -
1. Willkommen (Eddie Redmayne as ‘The Emcee’)
2. So What (Liza Sadovy as ‘Fraulein Schneider’)
3. Don't Tell Mama (Jessie Buckley as ‘Sally Bowles’)
4. Mein Herr (Jessie Buckley)
5. Perfectly Marvellous (Jessie Buckley, Omari Douglas as ‘Cliff Bradshaw’)
6. Two Ladies (Eddie Redmayne, Sally Frith as ‘Frenchie’, Sophie Maria Wojna as ‘Rosie’)
7. It Couldn't Please Me More (Liza Sadovy, Elliot Levey as ‘Herr Schultz’)
8. Tomorrow Belongs To Me (Eddie Redmayne)
9. Maybe This Time (Jessie Buckley)
10. Money (Eddie Redmayne)
11. Married (Elliot Levey, Liza Sadovy, Anna Jane Casey as ‘Fraulein Kost’)
12. Tomorrow Belongs To Me – Reprise (Anna Jane Casey, Stewart Clarke as ‘Ernst Ludwig’)
The Church of Many: Andrea Thurber, Elsa Carenbauer, Anna Goss, Maddi Waneka and Emily Merlin
Waffle Cone Club: Kyle Vincent Singer, Scott Kreider, Marjorie Lair
Everything is Terrible!
Kevin Bourland
Michael Lujan
Moment Factory
Nina Mastrangelo
Scott Geary, Wayne Geary, Gary Ashkin
Appropriating
Paneel "Rehearsal for an Icon 2001 - Mona Lisa" von Olbinski, Grafikdruck. Digital Print
Hybridizing
Untitled (Studio)2014
Kerry James Marshall
Simulating
Andy Warhol
(American, 1928–1987) 1962. Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases, Each canvas 20 x 16" (50.8 x 40.6 cm). Overall installation with 3" between each panel is 97" high x 163" wide
Mixing Media
Mama, Mummy and Mamma (Predecessors #2)
Njideka Akunyili Crosby. 2014
Layering
Zephyrus Rising, 2022. Acrylic on Acrylic. 32 × 16 × 22 in Duncan McDaniel
Mixing Codes
Recontextualizing
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, 1503-6; On Winnie: Denis Colomb stoles (worn as a headdress, top and sleeves)
Confronting the Gaze
Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad David Ayer 2016 (left), Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey Cathy Yann 2021 (right)
Facing Abject
Jane Alexander, Butcher Boys, 1985/86, mixed media (Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, photo: Goggins World, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Constructing Identities
Creating Metaphors
Martin Puryear. Ladder for Booker T. Washington, detail, 1996. Installation view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. 2003
Using Narratives
Damien Hirst
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 2013 Lentikulardruck80 x 120 cm
Irony, Parody, Parody Dissonance
A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby (2014). Kara Walker Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images