#William Macready

[theladyactress]

Anna Cora Mowatt and Anne Blake

Part I: Intriguing, But Less Than Ground-Breaking [A recording of this play is available at Librivox] John Westland Marston’s 1852 play, “Anne Blake” makes me glad I’m writing a blog. As you may have noticed, researching Anna Cora Mowatt’s acting roles has caused me to develop a taste for mid-19th-century popular drama. I found this script to be a wonderful example of the genre. If you too find…

[famousdeaths]

William Charles Macready was an English stage actor. The son of Irish actor-manager William Macready the Elder he emerged as a leading West End performer during...

Link: William Macready

[travsd]

One Week from Today: Relive the Astor Place Theatre Riot!

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 5:30pm EDT Once again, friend, Ralph Lewis, Bowery Booster and vital third of the conscientious triumvirate known as Peculiar Works Project is offering his gripping, minute by minute explication of the Astor Place Riots on their anniversary through the NY Adventure Club. May 10 is the anniversary of that that looney event, when nativist supporters of actor Edwin…

[puutterings]

sparing of words, yet by a condensation

                              in all its sublime depths, if not                 He was very sparing of words                   sudden look or startling gesture, yet by a condensation of vigorous “utterance and                   in this style he will go far.”  

— various confusions (a quotation mark for p) at “Macready’s Reminiscences,” being a review of Macready’s Reminiscences, and Selections from his Diaries. Edited by Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart., one of his Executors (1875), taken from the Quarterly Review, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art 22:1 (July 1875) : 1-24 (15-16)

William Macready (1793-1873), wikipedia  

[uh-oh-kyber-is-here]

Bringing this back

[werewolfrevenge]

Final boys/survivors icons

Don’t interact if 18 plus blog,minors dni blog or pr0shipper

[ares-the-strange]

I want to be like them

[mr-e-nigma]

You are my best friend

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1988, astronaut Commander Douglas Stanfield has the sad misfortune of falling in love with Sandra Horn before he leaves on an experimental 40-year journey into space. ("The Long Morrow", The Twilight Zone, TV)

[tzigone]

Crossover thought

Champions and Scarecrow and Mrs. King. Hey, they're both shows about secret agents. They're only about 15 years apart, so Craig, Sharron, and Richard could still be working when Lee and Amanda are a team. Nemesis and the IFF could totally have a team-up.

Heck, if you wanted to mess with the kiddos, Philip or Jamie might could date one of the Champion-characters' kiddos, and they could end up in a tight jam because of who their parents are. Or they could end up second-gen heroes.

[carrion-the-queer]

Horbogender

Hor - Horror

Bo - Himbo

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A gender related to unhinged final boys who are reminiscent of himbos. This gender is not male, but has masc elements to it.

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Grey - Leon Kennedy (RE4)

Dark grey - R. J. Macready (The Thing 1982)

Blue and red - Ash Williams (Evil Dead 2)

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He/Him/His

They/Them/Theirs

Ash/Ash’s

Macready/Macready’s

Leon/Leon’s

Horror/Horror’s

Himbo/Himbo’s

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have The Great Race 1965

[shakespearenews]

Hamlets have been very short (David Garrick and Edmund Kean), fat (Thomas Betterton), exceedingly fat (Stephen Kemble), tall and rangy (David Warner), immensely muscular (Edwin Forrest), plain-looking (William Macready) and superlatively handsome (John Barrymore and Laurence Olivier). They have also at times, most often in the 19th century, been women (Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Cushman, Sarah Bernhardt and, a few years ago in New York, Diane Venora).

[bodhrancomedy]

Is there a curse?

Probably not, but here are some of the deaths and incidences apparently related to the Scottish curse because I don’t have access to my old essays since leaving uni.

“Macbeth has certainly had its fair share of mishaps. Theatre manager Lilian Baylis died on the night of the dress rehearsal for the Old Vic's 1937 production starring Laurence Olivier. A falling stage weight just missed landing on Olivier; then the director and the actress playing Lady Macbeth were involved in a car crash. The play's opening was postponed, and on its first night Baylis' portrait fell off the theatre wall. ‘They used real weapons, and one flew into the audience, giving someone a heart attack,’ adds Chouhan.

“In 1942, three actors died during the run of the Piccadilly Theatre's version, starring John Gielgud. The costume designer committed suicide.

‘And one of the most infamous incidents actually had very little to do with the play itself,’ says Chouhan. ‘In 1849, a much-loved English actor-manager called William Macready was touring in Macbeth in America. He had developed a rivalry with an American actor called Edwin Forrest, who was equally well-loved in America and was starring in another version. When Macready went to perform at the Astor Opera House in New York, Forrest's supporters showed up. The performance had to be heavily policed. Macready went onstage and riots broke out. Soldiers fired into the crowd – about 20 people died.’

However, the most intriguing story is the one that surrounds the play's first performance by Shakespeare's own company, in which the actor due to play Lady Macbeth is said to have died shortly before the first performance.

This, says Chouhan, is ‘all just a myth’.

‘In the 19th century, Macbeth was a particularly popular play, and some critics were getting fed up with it. One was Max Beerbohm, a cartoonist and critic. He made up a story that the actor playing Lady Macbeth in the first production had died. It was a parody of the way scholars take evidence from the period; of what George Bernard Shaw called ‘Bardology’. But everyone believed it, and that's where the myth of bad luck began.’”

[uh-oh-kyber-is-here]

Ash Williams and RJ MacReady would survive each other’s franchises. The difference is MacReady would live because he’s intelligent and capable and would systematically get rid of the deadites the moment they’re possessed, while Ash would make it through pure dumb luck