#cyril thornton

[mariocki]

The Raven (1935)

"The raven is my talisman."

"Curious talisman. Bird of ill omen. A symbol of death."

"Death is my talisman, Mr. Chapman. The one indestructible force, the one certain thing in an uncertain universe - death."

[kwebtv]

North and South - BBC - December 1, 1975 - December 22, 1975

Drama (4 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Rosalind Shanks as Margaret Hale

Robin Bailey as Mr. Hale

Kathleen Byron as Mrs. Hale

Peggy Ann Wood as Dixon

Patrick Stewart as John Thornton

Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Thornton

Norman Jones as Nicholas Higgins

Barbara Hickmott as Bessy Higgins

Ian Marter as Henry Lennox

Gail Harrison as Edith Shaw

Ginette McDonald as Mary Higgins

Pamela Moiseiwitsch as Fanny Thornton

Ray Mort as Carter

Christopher Burgess as Boucher

Frank Mills as Williams

Peter Welch as Slickson

Cyril Luckham as Mr. Bell

Tim Pigott-Smith as Frederick Hale

[byneddiedingo]

Myrna Loy and William Powell in The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934) Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell, Porter Hall, Henry Wadsworth, William Henry, Harold Huber, Cesar Romero, Natalie Moorhead, Edward Brophy, Edward Ellis, Cyril Thornton. Screenplay: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, based on a novel by Dashiell Hammett. Cinematography: James Wong Howe. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Robert Kern. Music: William Axt. I have seen W.S. Van Dyke's The Thin Man several times, and I've read Dashiell Hammett's novel, but I still can't remember whodunit. Which is, I think, because it doesn't really matter: The mystery is secondary to the banter of Nick and Nora and the eccentricity of the characters they encounter as her world of privilege marries with his world of cops and lowlifes. Most of the best mysteries, by which I mean those of Hammett and Raymond Chandler, are about atmosphere rather than crime: Those who want to try to solve the mystery along with the detective should read other writers who are more involved with planting clues and red herrings. The Thin Man may have benefited from MGM's lack of interest in the project, which could have been swamped with the kind of second-guessing from the front office that often stifled the studio's films. Instead, it was treated as a routine programmer whose stars, William Powell and Myrna Loy, were second-tier and whose director, known as "One-Take Woody" Van Dyke, was known for getting things done quick and dirty -- filming took only 16 days. But Powell and Loy became first-tier stars, and the movie earned four Oscar nominations (picture, actor, director, and screenplay) and was followed by five sequels. Powell has often struck me as a surprising star, with his big nose and his dubious chin, and I used to have trouble distinguishing him from Melvyn Douglas. Even now, if you asked me to say without hesitating whether it was Powell or Douglas in My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936), or Douglas or Powell in Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, 1939), I might stumble a bit. But he had undeniable chemistry with Loy, so much so that they got re-teamed in movies outside the Thin Man series like The Great Ziegfeld (Robert Z. Leonard, 1936), Libeled Lady (Jack Conway, 1936), and others. The Thin Man also has a little more zip and zest than some of the films made after the Production Code clamped down, though Nick and Nora, like other married couples, were forced into twin beds. They still drink to an unholy excess, of course.

[dankusner]

In 2017, renowned forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht was invited to make the case for a JFK Assassination conspiracy to an audience at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, the first time a Warren Commission critic was given such a platform. 

At the age of 86, Wecht gave a fiery address on the weakness and duplicity of the forensic evidence examined by the Warren Commission. 

In a lively question and answer segment he also spoke briefly about the forensic evidence in Robert Kennedy’s assassination and the advice he gave Dr. Thomas Noguchi in the midst of RFK’s autopsy. 

A repeated theme of Wecht’s address was the vital importance of holding the White House to account for the full release of assassination records in 2017 in accordance with the JFK Records Act. 

Cyril Wecht did not live to see the White House fulfill its duty under the law, but the fight for full disclosure continue

May 13 brought the sad news of the passing of JFK assassination research legend Dr. Cyril Wecht, a passionate man who for decades pursued the truth of the JFK assassination with unparalleled vigor and tenacity.  

Wecht first spoke about the assassination of President Kennedy in 1965 after being invited to an American Academy of Forensic Sciences conference, where he presented a paper critical of the Warren Commission’s official finding that a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, had shot the president.

Wecht pursued the JFK case tirelessly for nearly the next 60 years, while serving as a certified forensic pathologist, the coroner for Allegheny County in Pittsburgh, and founder of the Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law at Duquesne University. 

In his memorably passionate speeches, Wecht marshaled his immense medical expertise — bolstered by pungent language and moral conviction — to make the case that the government’s account of JFK’s murder was an unscientific sham.

I had the pleasure of doing a lengthy interview with Wecht in 2022. 

It was then that he shared with me his biggest concerns about the case. 

First, he said, the official autopsy was very much controlled, including its physicians, Dr. James Humes and Dr. J. Thornton Boswell. 

By whom he did not say. 

Second, he told me that in 1972, he learned that the president’s brain was missing from the government’s collection of autopsy materials, a scoop first published in the New York Times in August 1972. 

Asked about the missing brain, Wecht said, “I’m sure it’s been destroyed.”

In 1978, Dr. Wecht served on the medical panel of the House Select Committee on Assassinations and was the only doctor to disagree with the Warren Commission’s so-called single bullet theory.

“The single bullet theory,” he asserted in his dissent, “is unequivocally repudiated by an objective, thorough evaluation and analysis of all the medical, scientific and physical data in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.”

Wecht told me was disappointed by the other doctors, whom he said were all very capable in their fields, but had already made up their minds before the panel met.

Wecht knew George de Mohrenschildt, the itinerant geologist who became friends with Oswald, and said he was likely the most important witness in the JFK assassination story. 

Wecht said that de Mohrenschildt told him over lunch one day that he (DeMohrenschildt) had vital information that contradicted the Warren Commission’s findings. 

Unfortunately, de Mohrenschildt died on March 29, 1977, before he could testify for the HSCA, officially the victim of a suicide.

When I asked Wecht what took place on Nov. 22, 1963, he said, “it was a coup d'etat, but I’m going to keep pursuing my battle.”

His Background

Cyril Wecht was born in Dunkard Township, Pa., the son of Nathan Wecht and Fannie Rubenstein. 

Later the family moved to Pittsburgh, where he graduated from Fifth Avenue High School. 

His earned his first medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1952, followed by an M.D. degree in 1956, then a degree in law in 1962. 

Wecht also served in the U.S. Air Force, becoming a captain in the medical corps.

Over the course his career, Wecht also consulted on many other high-profile criminal cases. 

His first book, “Legal Medicine,” published in 1985, was followed by nine more — all drawing on his expertise as a coroner. 

They included “A Question of Murder,” “The Life and Deaths of Cyril Wecht,” “Crime Scene Investigation,” “Grave Secrets,” “Mortal Evidence,” “From Crime Scene to Courtroom,” “Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey,?” “Cause of Death,” and “Tales from the Morgue.” 

His most recent book, “The JFK Assassination Dissected,” came out in 2022.

The Wecht Institute sponsored numerous conferences on the assassination of President Kennedy, setting the standard in the field with presentations by assassination experts from around the world.

Those of us in the JFK assassination community feel a great loss at his passing. 

Anyone who heard him speak couldn’t help but feel his passion and resolve for finding the truth about President Kennedy’s death. 

He fought the good fight for nearly 60 years, and we have all benefited from his firm determination to find the truth wherever it might lead.

The assassination research community and many others extend their heartfelt sympathies to the family of this legendary man of action. 

May he rest in peace.

[profamer]

This day in history, December 7, 1842 A. D., 180 years ago, Thomas Hamilton , the author of Cyril Thornton , a contributor ... #history #thisdayinhistory #chronology #historical #events

This day in history, December 7, 1842 A. D., 180 years ago, Thomas Hamilton , the author of Cyril Thornton , a contributor … #history #thisdayinhistory #chronology #historical #events

The following excerpt was not changed from its original text to maintain literary integrity; therefore, some expressions may be archaic.DECEMBER 7. 1842. Thomas Hamilton, the author of Cyril Thornton, a contributor to Blackwood’s Magazine, &c., died at Pisa, in Italy. Source: Gutenberg.orgAdapted from: The Everyday Book of History and Chronology by, Joel Munsell

[unknown-songs]

BLACK LIVES MATTER

A list with black artists who have a song in the Unknown Songs That Should Be Known-playlist (Can be a black artist in a band or just solo-artist) (no specific genre)

Bull’s Eye - Blacknuss, Prince Prime - Funk Aftershow - Joe Fox - Alternative Hip-hop Strangers in the Night - Ben L’Oncle Soul - Soul Explore - Mack Wilds - R&B Something To Do - IGBO - Funk

Down With The Trumpets - Rizzle Kicks - Pop Dans ta ville - Dub Inc. - Reggae Dance or Die - Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Funk FACELESS - The PLAYlist, Glenn Lewis - R&B Tell Me Father - Jeangu Macrooy - Soul

Southern Boy - John The Conquerer - Blues Hard Rock Savannah Grass - Kes - Dancehall Dr. Funk - The Main Squeeze - Funk Seems I’m Never Tired of Loving You - Lizz Wright - Jazz Out of My Hands - TheColorGrey, Oddisee - Hip-Hop/Pop

Raised Up in Arkansas - Michael Burks - Blues Black Times - Sean Kuti, Egypt 80, Carlos Santana - Afrobeat Cornerstone - Benjamin Clementine - Indie Shine On - R.I.O., Madcon - Electronic Pop Bass On The Line - Bernie Worrell - Funk

When We Love - Jhené Aiko - R&B Need Your Love - Curtis Harding - Soul Too Dry to Cry - Willis Earl Beal - Folk Your House - Steel Pulse - Reggae Power - Moon Boots, Black Gatsby - Deep House

Vinyl Is My Bible - Brother Strut - Funk Diamond - Izzy Biu - R&B Elusive - blackwave., David Ngyah - Hip-hop Don’t Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down - Heritage Blues Orchestra - Blues Sastanàqqàm - Tinariwen - Psychedelic Rock

Disco To Go - Brides of Funkenstein - Funk/Soul Circles - Durand Jones & The Indications - Retro Pop Cheesin’ - Cautious Clay, Remi Wolf, sophie meiers - R&B Changes - Charles Bradley - Soul The Sweetest Sin - RAEVE - House

Gyae Su - Pat Thomas, Kwashibu Area Band - Funk What Am I to Do - Ezra Collective, Loyle Carner - Hip-hop Get Your Groove On - Cedric Burnside - Blues Old Enough To Know Better - Steffen Morrisson - Soul Wassiye - Habib Koité - Khassonke musique

Dance Floor - Zapp - Funk Wake Up - Brass Against, Sophia Urista - Brass Hard-Rock BIG LOVE - Black Eyed Peas - Pop The Greatest - Raleigh Ritchie - R&B DYSFUNCTIONAL - KAYTRANADA, VanJess - Soul

See You Leave - RJD2, STS, Khari Mateen - Hip-hop Sing A Simple Song - Maceo Parker - Jazz/Funk Have Mercy - Eryn Allen Kane - Soul Homenage - Brownout - Latin Funk Can’t Sleep - Gary Clark Jr. - Blues Rock

Toast - Koffee - Dancehall Freedom - Ester Dean - R&B Iskaba - Wande Coal, DJ Tunez - Afropop High Road - Anthony Riley - Alternative Christian Sunny Days - Sabrina Starke - Soul

The Talking Fish - Ibibio Sound Machine - Funk Paralyzed - KWAYE - Indie Purple Heart Blvd - Sebastian Kole - Pop WORSHIP - The Knocks, MNEK - Deep House BMO - Ari Lennox - R&B

Promises - Myles Sanko - Soul .img - Brother Theodore - Funk Singing the Blues - Ruthie Foster, Meshell Ndegeocello - Blues Nobody Like You - Amartey, SBMG, The Livingtons - Hip-hop Starship - Afriquoi, Shabaka Hutchings, Moussa Dembele - Deep House

Lay My Troubles Down - Aaron Taylor - Funk  Bloodstream - Tokio Myers - Classic Sticky - Ravyn Lenae - R&B Why I Try - Jalen N’Gonda - Soul Motivation - Benjamin Booker - Folk

quand c’est - Stromae - Pop Let Me Down (Shy FX Remix) - Jorja Smith, Stormzy, SHY FX - Reggae Funny - Gerald Levert - R&B Salt in my Wounds - Shemekia Copeland - Blues Our Love - Samm Henshaw - Soul

Make You Feel That Way - Blackalicious - Jazz Hip-hop Knock Me Out - Vintage Trouble - Funk Take the Time - Ronald Bruner, Jr., Thundercat - Alternative Thru The Night - Phonte, Eric Roberson - R&B Keep Marchin’ - Raphael Saadiq - Soul

Shake Me In Your Arms - Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo’ - Blues Meet Me In The Middle - Jodie Abascus - Pop Raise Hell - Sir the Baptist, ChurchPpl - Gospel Pop Mogoya - Oumou Sangaré - Wassoulou Where’s Yesterday - Slakah The Beatchild - Hip-hop

Lose My Cool - Amber Mark - R&B New Funk - Big Sam’s Funky Nation - Funk I Got Love - Nate Dogg - Hip-hop Nothing’s Real But Love - Rebecca Ferguson - Soul Crazy Race - The RH Factor - Jazz

Spies Are Watching Me - Voilaaa, Sir Jean - Funk The Leaders - Boka de Banjul - Afrobeat Fast Lane - Rationale - House Conundrum - Hak Baker - Folk Don’t Make It Harder On Me - Chloe x Halle - R&B

Plastic Hamburgers - Fantastic Negrito - Hardrock Beyond - Leon Bridges - Pop God Knows - Dornik - Soul Soleil de volt - Baloji - Afrofunk Do You Remember - Darryl Williams, Michael Lington - Jazz Get Back - McClenney - Alternative Three Words - Aaron Marcellus - Soul

Spotify playlist 

In memory of:

Aaron Bailey Adam Addie Mae Collins Ahmaud Arbery Aiyana Stanley Jones Akai Gurley Alberta Odell Jones Alexia Christian Alfonso Ferguson Alteria Woods Alton Sterling Amadou Diallo Amos Miller Anarcha Westcott Anton de Kom Anthony Hill Antonio Martin Antronie Scott Antwon Rose Jr. Arthur St. Clair Atatiana Jefferson Aubrey Pollard Aura Rosser Bennie Simons Berry Washington Bert Dennis Bettie Jones Betsey Billy Ray Davis Bobby Russ Botham Jean Brandon Jones Breffu Brendon Glenn Breonna Taylor Bud Johnson Bussa

Calin Roquemore Calvin McDowell Calvin Mike and his family Carl Cooper Carlos Carson Carlotta Lucumi Carol Denise McNair Carol Jenkins Carole Robertson Charles Curry Charles Ferguson Charles Lewis Charles Wright Charly Leundeu Keunang Chime Riley Christian Taylor Christopher Sheels Claude Neal Clementa Pickney Clifford Glover Clifton Walker Clinton Briggs Clinton R. Allen Cordella Stevenson Corey Carter Corey Jones Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd Cynthia Wesley

Daniel L. Simmons Danny Bryant Darius Randell Robinson Darius Tarver Darrien Hunt Darrius Stewart David Felix David Joseph David McAtee David Walker and his family Deandre Brunston Deborah Danner Delano Herman Middleton Demarcus Semer Demetrius DuBose Depayne Middleton-Doctor Dion Johnson Dominique Clayton Dontre Hamilton Dred Scott

Edmund Scott Ejaz Choudry Elbert Williams Eleanor Bumpurs Elias Clayton Elijah McClain Eliza Woods Elizabeth Lawrence Elliot Brooks Ellis Hudson Elmer Jackson Elmore Bolling Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. Emmett Till Eric Garner Eric Harris Eric Reason Ernest Lacy Ernest Thomas Ervin Jones Eugene Rice Eugene Williams Ethel Lee Lance Ezell Ford

Felix Kumi Frank Livingston Frank Morris Frank Smart Frazier B. Baker Fred Hampton Fred Rochelle Fred Temple Freddie Carlos Gray Jr.

George Floyd George Grant George Junius Stinney Jr. George Meadows George Waddell George Washington Lee Gregory Gunn

Harriette Vyda Simms Moore Harry Tyson Moore Hazel “Hayes” Turner Henry Ezekial Smith Henry Lowery Henry Ruffin Henry Scott Hosea W. Allen

India Kager Isaac McGhie Isadore Banks Italia Marie Kelly

Jack Turner Jamar Clark Jamel Floyd James Byrd Jr. James Craig Anderson James Earl Chaney James Powell James Ramseur James Tolliver James T. Scott Janet Wilson Jason Harrison Javier Ambler J.C. Farmer Jemel Roberson Jerame Reid Jesse Thornton Jessie Jefferson Jim Eastman Joe Nathan Roberts John Cecil Jones John Crawford III John J. Gilbert John Ruffin John Taylor Johnny Robinson Jonathan Ferrell Jonathan Sanders Jordan Edwards Joseph Mann Julia Baker Julius Jones July Perry Junior Prosper

Kalief Browder Karvas Gamble Jr. Keith Childress, Jr. Kelly Gist Kelso Benjamin Cochrane Kendrick Johnson Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. Kenny Long Kevin Hicks Kevin Matthews Kiwane Albert Carrington

Lacy Mitchell Lamar Smith Laquan McDonald Laura Nelson Laura Wood L.B. Reed L.D. Nelson Lemuel Penn Lemuel Walters Leonard Deadwyler Leroy Foley Levi Harrington Lila Bella Carter Lloyd Clay Louis Allen Lucy

M.A. Santa Cruz Maceo Snipes Malcom X Malice Green Malissa Williams Manuel Ellis Marcus Deon Smith Marcus Foster Marielle Franco Mark Clark Maria Martin Lee Anderson Martin Luther King Jr. Matthew Avery Mary Dennis Mary Turner Matthew Ajibade May Noyes Mckenzie Adams Medgar Wiley Evers Michael Brown Michael Donald Michael Griffith Michael Lee Marshall Michael Lorenzo Dean Michael Noel Michael Sabbie Michael Stewart Michelle Cusseaux Miles Hall Moses Green Mya Hall Myra Thompson

Nathaniel Harris Pickett Jr. Natasha McKenna Nicey Brown Nicholas Heyward Jr.

O’Day Short family Orion Anderson Oscar Grant III Otis Newsom

Pamela Turner Paterson Brown Jr. Patrick Dorismond Philando Castile Phillip Pannell Phillip White Phinizee Summerour

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Ramarley Graham Randy Nelson Raymond Couser Raymond Gunn Regis Korchinski-Paquet Rekia Boyd Renisha McBride Riah Milton Robert Hicks Robert Mallard Robert Truett Rodney King Roe Nathan Roberts Roger Malcolm and his wife Roger Owensby Jr. Ronell Foster Roy Cyril Brooks Rumain Brisbon Ryan Matthew Smith

Sam Carter Sam McFadden Samuel DuBose Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr. Samuel Hammond Jr. Samuel Leamon Younge Jr. Sandra Bland Sean Bell Shali Tilson Sharonda Coleman-Singleton Shukri Abdi Simon Schuman Slab Pitts Stella Young Stephon Clark Susie Jackson

T.A. Allen Tamir Rice Tamla Horsford Tanisha Anderson Timothy Caughman Timothy Hood Timothy Russell Timothy Stansbury Jr. Timothy Thomas Terrence Crutcher Terrill Thomas Tom Jones Tom Moss Tony McDade Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. Trayvon Martin Troy Hodge Troy Robinson Tula Tyler Gerth Tyre King Tywanza Sanders

Victor Duffy Jr. Victor White III

Walter Lamar Scott Wayne Arnold Jones Wesley Thomas Wilbert Cohen Wilbur Bundley Will Brown Will Head Will Stanley Will Stewart Will Thompson Willie James Howard Willie Johnson Willie McCoy Willie Palmer Willie Turks William Brooks William Butler William Daniels William Fambro William Green William L. Chapman II William Miller William Pittman Wyatt Outlaw

Yusef Kirriem Hawkins

The victims of LaLaurie (1830s) The black victims of the Opelousas massacre (1868) The black victims of the Thibodaux massacre (1887) The black victims of the Wilmington insurrection (1898) The black victims of the Johnson-Jeffries riots (1910) The black victims of the Red summer (1919) The black victims of the Elaine massacre (1919) The black victims of the Ocoee massacre (1920) The victims of the MOVE bombing (1985)

All the people who died during the Atlantic slave trade, be it due to abuse or disease.

All the unnamed victims of mass-incarceration, who were put into jail without the committing of a crime and died while in jail or died after due to mental illness. 

All the unnamed victims of racial violence and discrimination. 

...

My apologies for all the people missing on this list. Feel free to add more names and stories. 

Listen, learn and read about discrimination, racism and black history: (feel free to add more)  Documentaries: 13th (Netflix) The Innocence Files (Netflix) Who Killed Malcolm X? (Netflix) Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix) I Am Not Your Negro

YouTube videos: We Cannot Stay Silent about George Floyd Waarom ook Nederlanders de straat op gaan tegen racisme (Dutch) Wit is ook een kleur (Dutch) (documentaire)

Books: Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery White Fragility by Robin Deangelo Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Woman, Race and Class by Angela Davis

Websites: https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/ https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/ https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearsoflyn00nati/page/n11/mode/2up https://lab.nos.nl/projects/slavernij/index-english.html https://blacklivesmatter.com/ https://www.zinnedproject.org/

[opera-ghosts]

Alice Verlet (1873–1934) was a Belgian-born operatic coloratura soprano active primarily in France. She sang principal roles at the operas in Lyon, Nice, and Monte Carlo; at His Majesty's Theater in London; at La Monnaie in Brussels; and at the Paris Opéra and Opéra-Comique. In the United States, although not entirely absent from the operatic stage, she was known primarily as a concert singer and was a featured singer on Edison records. Verlet made her debut at the Opéra-Comique in 1894. as Philine in Thomas's Mignon On July 16, 1895, she appeared in England, participating in a concert at the Masonic Hall in Birmingham presented by Mme. Moriani to showcase her pupils. Two other participants, now long forgotten, had already made debuts in London, but with some prescience Mme. Moriani emphasized to the press that the Opéra-Comique had recently engaged Verlet as prima donna.From that point forward, Verlet enjoyed a successful career, particularly in Francophone Europe. Her debut at the Monnaie in Brussels took place on September 7, 1901, in Verdi's Rigoletto; she remained a member of that company for the balance of the season and later would make periodic appearances there. Her debut at the Paris Opéra, as Blondine in a French-language production of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, came in 1903. She sang her first Rigoletto in that house on April 11, 1904; Adelina Patti, who was in attendance, conspicuously displayed enthusiasm for Verlet's singing and offered congratulations to Verlet's teacher, Mme. Moriani. In 1905 and 1906, Verlet played the Naiad in the first modern revival of Gluck's Armide in Paris. Other cast members included Lucienne Bréval, Agustarello Affre, Dinh Gilly, and Geneviève Vix. Two years later, she was at the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique for a run of Lakmé with David Devriès and Félix Vieuille. Verlet assembled a company and undertook a tour of England in 1910. Other members included contralto Edna Thornton and pianist Mark Hambourg; the accompanist was Cyril Towsey of Wellington, New Zealand, who had carved out a career performing in such ad hoc groups.In July, Verlet returned to Birmingham, the scene of her English artistic "coming out" 15 years before, as a participant in daily concerts for the city's centenary fetes, although perhaps upstaged by a massive air show, not unmarred by fatal crashes of the then-novel machines. She was again in distinguished artistic company, organized and directed by Dan Godfrey: other participants included singers Nellie Melba, Agnes Nicholls, and Harry Plunket Greene; pianists Wilhelm Backhaus, Myra Hess, and Benno Moiseiwitsch; and violinist Mischa Elman. Verlet made her London debut one month earlier as a participant in the Thomas Beecham Opera Comique Season at His Majesty's Theater. As in her Paris Opera debut, the opera was Die Entführung aus dem Serail, but now Verlet played Constanze opposite Maggie Teyte as Blonde and Robert Radford as Osmin, all under Beecham's baton. Shortly after completing her first season at the Opéra-Comique, Verlet sang at the residence of the American ambassador to Belgium. The result was an invitation to make her first visit to the United States, which led to her US debut in August 1896. Among her early US engagements was at the sold-out May 10, 1897, inaugural concert of the Fanny Mendelssohn Society, a women's choral group founded and directed by J. Alfred Pennington, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Interspersed with selections for the chorus and for harpist Maude Morgan, Verlet sang two songs, "The Kiss" by Helmund and "Les Filles de Cadiz" by Léo Delibes; two operatic excerpts, the Spinning Song from Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer and the Shadow Song from Meyerbeer's Dinorah; and, together with all the other artists assembled, including accompanist Charlotte Blackman, Horatio Parker's part song for women's chorus, composed only five years earlier, "The Fisher". Verlet's interpolation of a high concluding note in the Meyerbeer earned her a standing ovation and encore. At the time of the Scranton

performance, Verlet counted 25 operas in her repertoire; could sing fluently in French, Italian, and German; and planned to make her New York debut at Carnegie Hall on the following November 1 in a Damrosch concert. Some twenty-five years later, ending a concert tour on March 17, 1922, Verlet would revisit that hall to present a program including European operatic arias "from Mozart to Massenet" and songs by US composers including Henry Hadley and Thurlow Lieurance. Accompanying her were pianist J. Warren Erb and a young Spanish-born classical violinist from Cuba named Xavier Cugat, who soon would shift genres and go on to fame as the "rhumba king", the first leader of a successful Latin dance band in the United States. Although primarily a concert singer in the United States, Verlet did perform some opera. In 1915 the Chicago Opera engaged her as Philene in several performances of Thomas's Mignon. Also in the cast were Conchita Supervia, Charles Dalmorès, and Marcel Journet. She also performed with the Boston Opera. Verlet retired from performing in 1920. Thereafter, she taught voice until her death in Paris in 1934.

[oldmotors]

I’d say it’s very unusual to see a highly-prized Jaguar Mk2 3.8 in this condition, but actually there are quite a few of them still floating around like this waiting for a rescuer. Just a hair over 30,000 of them were made, and most of the very rapid 3.8s were shipped stateside. They’re rust prone and complex, both structurally and mechanically, which often means something’s beyond somebody’s budget - though less so nowadays as they’re a car that’s definitely worth restoring. There were sports sedans before the Jaguar Mk2, but few were such a perfect blend space, pace, and grace - and fewer still were within the reach of mere mortals. The Mark 2, and in particular the 3.8-liter version, was really a four-door sports car, the kind of car that later became associated with BMW. In the fifties, when the original “Project Utah” Jaguar debuted, the retroactively-named Mk1, it made BMW’s “Baroque Angel” seem baroque indeed. The original is probably more interesting from a design perspective, but the Mk2 became a legend. Rooted in pre-war streamlining ideas (compare it to a Tatra T87) the original Mk1 was penned by William Lyons himself in 1952 and first glimpsed as “Project Utah.” It was then developed for production by Bill Thornton and Cyril Crouch, who worked with Pressed Steel to create the production body. Longtime Jaguar engineer Bob Knight had the unenviable task of making Jaguar’s first unibody quiet and refined, while William Heynes designed the suspension. The “Utah” platform was aimed at returning to mid-market segments, thereby insulating Jaguar from economic downturns. A 4-cyl was originally mooted, but Mk1s used 2.4 and 3.4L XK sixes. They were plenty rapid, but not enough for Americans, whom Jaguar was working quite hard to court. 1960’s Mk2 got a revised greenhouse that looked less 1940s-ish and a 3.8 XK, the only model that would be sent stateside after that year. It also got four-wheel discs, an LSD on the 3.8, and revised suspension geometry - the result being a seriously sporty do-it-all machine that was also a quiet daily driver. In the 60s it earned saloon racing fame and getaway car infamy in the U.K., with sales continuing into 1967. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHn4_8lFuRE/?igshid=1iul4oev6kku0

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Dr. Death’s victim list

Acton, Lily Adams, Lizzie Adkinson, Sarah Adshead, Norman Adshead, Rose Ann Aitken, Irene Andrew, Dorothy Mary Andrew, Joseph Andrew, Mary Emma Arrandale, Albert Arrowsmith, Winifred Ashcroft, Netta Ashton, Dora Elizabeth Ashton, Ellen Ashworth, Ada Ashworth, Brenda Ashworth, Elizabeth Ashworth, James Ashworth, Sarah Aveyard, Clara Ethel Baddeley, Elizabeth Mary Baddeley, John Bagshaw, Bertha Barber, Squire Bardsley, Joseph Bardsley, Lily Bardsley, Nellie Barker, Elsie Barlow, Charles Henry Barnes, James Edward Battersby, Elizabeth Baxter, William Beech, Joseph Bell, Norman John Bennett, Ethel Bennett, Frances Bennett, Nellie Bennison, Charlotte Bent, Arthur Berry, Irene Bill, Edith Annie Birchall, Mary Ivy Bird, Violet May Black, Alice Boardman, Kathleen May Boardman, Mary Louisa Bogle, Geoffrey Bolland, Alice Bowers, Mary Elizabeth Bradshaw, Miriam Brady, Edith Bramwell, Harold Bramwell, Vera Brassington, Charles Geoffrey Brassington, Nancy Anne Bridge, Doris Bridge, Jane Brierley, Albert Brierley, Edith Broadbent, Lily Brock, Edith Brocklehurst, Charles Edward Brocklehurst, Vera Brooder, Irene Brookes, Lily Brookes, May Brown, Alice Brown, Mary Alice Brown, William Henry Buckland, Edward Buckley, Ethel Burke, Elizabeth Mary Butcher, Lydia Edith Cains, Ida Callaghan, Sean Stuart Calverley, Edith Campbell, Annie Carradice, Marion Carrington, Alice Carroll, Josephine May Cartwright, Hannah Chadwick, Wilfred Challinor, Ivy Elizabeth Challoner, Genevieve Chapman, Irene Chappell, Alice Chappell, Wilfred Charlton, John Charnock, George Cheetham, Albert Cheetham, Alfred Cheetham, Elsie Cheetham, Hena Cheetham, Norah Cheetham, Thomas Chidlow, Amy Clarke, Fanny Clayton, Elsie Clayton, Frances Clee, Beatrice Helen Clough, James Condon, Thomas Connaughton, Alice Hilda Connors, Michael Conway, Margaret Ann Coomber, Frederick Cooper, Ann Copeland, Erla Copeland, Sydney Hoskins Couldwell, Constance Anne Coulthard, Ann Coutts, Mary Couzens, Hilda Mary Cox, Eileen Theresa Crompton, Eileen Daphne Crompton, Frank Crompton, John Crossley, Lily Cullen, Lilian Cuthbert, Valerie Davies, Cissie Davies, Eric Davies, Fred Davies, Miriam Dawson, Fanny Dean, Elsie Lorna Dean, Joan Edwina Delaney, Bessie Denham, Christopher Dentith, Frederick Devenport, Ronnie Dixon, Alice Dobb, Edgar Dolan, Ethel Drinkwater, Alice Drummond, Joseph Dudley, Mary Rose Dutton, Elaine Earls, Doris Earnshaw, William Eddleston, Harold Eddleston, Monica Edge, Agnes Evans, Bethel Anne Everall, Hannah Everall, Joseph Vincent Farrell, Phyllis Fernley, Marie Antoinette Firman, Mary Elizabeth Fish, Hilda Fitton, Hilda Fletcher, Dorothy Fletcher, Elizabeth Floyd, Arthur Fogg, Leah Foulkes, Edwin Fowden, Thomas Fox, Moira Ashton France, John Freeman, Harold Freeman, Winifred Frith, Hannah Galpin, Minnie Doris Irene Garlick, Rose Garlick, Violet Garratt, Mary Alice Garside, Millicent Gaskell, Marion Gaunt, Mary Gee, Nellie Gess, Clifford Givens, William Goddard, Edith Godfrey, Elsie Golds, Annie Elizabeth Gorton, Alice Maude Graham, Edith Gray, Rebecca Greenhalgh, John Sheard Grimshaw, Annie Grimshaw, Muriel Grundy, Donald Anthony Grundy, Kathleen Grundy, Nora Hackney, Clara Hackney, Clara Hadfield, Violet Hague, William Hall, Josephine Halliday, Frank Hallsworth, Janet Hamblett, Leonora Hamer, Mary Emma Hammond, Caroline Veronica Hampson, Jesse Hancock, Christine Hannible, Elsie Harding, Joan Milray Harris, Charles Harris, Harriet Harrison, Christina Harrison, David Alan Harrison, Marion Harrison, Muriel Eveline Harrison, Samuel Harrop, Elsie Haslam, Mary Elizabeth Hawkins, Sarah Healey, Winifred Heapey, Clifford Barnes Heapey, Gladys Heathcote, Irene Heginbotham, Olive Hennefer, Ellen Hett, Mary Jane Heywood, Ada Heywood, Florence Hibbert, Hilda Mary Hickson, Robert Higginbottom, George Eric Higginbottom, Peter Higgins, Barry Higgins, Lily Higham, Marion Elizabeth Highley, Ruth Higson, Ellen Hill, Sarah Ann Hillier, Pamela Marguerite Hilton, Ada Matley Hilton, John Hirst, Emma Holgate, Ethel Doris Holland, Alline Devolle Holt, Alice Hopkins, Dorothy Doretta Howcroft, John Hulme, Hilda Hurd, May Iwanina, Jozef Jackman, Harold Edward Jackson, Maureen Lamonnier Jackson, Nancy Jameson, Ronald Jeffries, Beatrice Johnson, Norah Johnson, Richard Johnston, Leah Jones, Alice Mary Jones, David Jones, Hannah Jones, Ivy Jones, Jane Jones, Robert Edward Jordan, Mary Ellen Keating, Mary Kellett, Ethel May Kellett, Fred Kelly, Ellen Kelly, Moira Kennedy, Alice Killan, Charles Henry King, Elsie King, James Joseph Kingsley, Mary Kitchen, Alice Christine Lacey, Renee Leach, Florence Leech, Edith Leech, William Henry Lees, Olive Leigh, Carrie Leigh, Joseph Leigh, Wilfred Lewis, Elsie Lewis, Florence Lewis, Peter Lilley, Jean Lingard, Robert Henry Linn, Laura Frances Livesey, John Louden Llewellyn, Edna May Lomas, Harry Lomas, Ivy Long, Dorothy Longmate, Thomas Alfred Lord, Jane Ellen Lowe, Beatrice Lowe, Esther Lowe, May Lyons, Eva MacConnell, Charles Mackenzie, Selina Mackie, Christina McCulloch Mansfield, Mary Ann Mansfield, Walter Marley, Martha Marsland, Sarah Hannah Matley, Maud McDonald, Kathleen McLaren, William James McLoughlin, Gertrude Melia, Joan May Mellor, Elizabeth Ellen Mellor, Samuel Mellor, Winifred Meredith, Oscar Metcalfe, Margaret Middleton, Deborah Middleton, Mary Mills, Samuel Mitchell, Cyril Mitchell, Wilbert Molesdale, John Bennett Morgan, Emily Moss, Bertha Moss, Hannah Mottram, George Henry Mottram, Hannah Helena Mottram, Pamela Grace Moult, Thomas Mullen, Nellie Mycock, Miriam Rose Emily Needham, Nora Nicholls, Violet Nichols, Fanny Nichols, Lily Nuttall, Hervey Nuttall, Norah O'Sullivan, Thomas Ogden, Mary Oldham, Agnes Oldham, Samuel Oswald, Frances Elaine Otter, Enid Ousey, Margaret Ovcar-Robinson, Konrad Peter Overton, Renate Eldtraude Oxley, Phyllis Parker, Marjorie Parkes, Annie Parkin, Laura Victoria Parr, Bertha Pearce, Elizabeth Pedley, Rosetta Penney, Vara Pickering, Leah Pickup, Kenneth Pickup, Mavis Mary Pitman, Edith Platt, Elsie Platt, Marion Pomfret, Bianka Potts, Frances Potts, Reginald Powers, Annie Alexandra Preston, Ada Marjorie Prestwich, Alice Proud, Ethel May Quinn, Marie Ralphs, Anne Lilian Ralphs, Ernest Colin Rawling, Alice Reade, Audrey Redfern, Tom Renwick, Dorothea Hill Richards, Jose Kathleen Diana Richardson, Alice Riley, Stanley Roberts, Edith Roberts, Esther Hannah Roberts, Gladys Robinson, Eileen Robinson, Eveline Robinson, Lavinia Robinson, Mildred Rogers, Elizabeth Ann Rostron, Jane Frances Rowarth, Dorothy Rowbottom, Annie Rowland, Jane Isabella Royles, Elsie Royston, Betty Rudol, Ernest Russell, Tom Balfour Sankey, Margaret Saunders, Albert Edward Saunders, Gladys Scott, Edith Scott, Elsie Sellors, Kate Maud Sharples, Cicely Shaw, Joseph Shaw, Leonard Shaw, Lilian Shaw, Neville Shaw, Susan Eveline Shawcross, Edna Shawcross, Ernest Shawcross, Mabel Shelmerdine, Jack Leslie Shelmerdine, Jane Elizabeth Shore, Lily Sidebotham, Florence Sigley, Elizabeth Teresa Simpson, Kenneth Harry Slater, Albert Slater, Florence Slater, Lena Norah Slater, May Smith, Alice Smith, Dora Elizabeth Smith, Emma Smith, Kenneth Ernest Smith, Margaret Smith, Mary Alice Smith, Sidney Arthur Smith, Winifred Isabel Sparkes, Monica Rene Squirrell, Alice Stafford, Harry Stafford, Kate Elizabeth Stansfield, Joe Ainscow Stocks, Louisa Stone, John Stopford, Arthur Henderson Stopford, Harriet Strickland, Ruth Sumner, Grace Swann, Bessie Swann, Robert Swindells, Emmeline Taylor, Caroline Mary Taylor, Edna Mary Taylor, Florence Taylor, Lily Newby Taylor, Mary Tempest, Mary Ann Thomas, Alice Thomas, Sarah Ann Thornton, Maria Tideswell, Sarah Tierney, Angela Philomena Tingle, Walter Toft, Beatrice Tomlin, Mary Townsend, Margaret Tucker, Dorothy Tuff, Mary Tuffin, Winifred Amy Turner, Frances Elizabeth Turner, Irene Uttley, Stanley Vickers, Frederick Vickers, Margaret Mary Virgin, Lucy Vizor, George Edgar Vizor, May Wagstaff, George Lawton Wagstaff, Jessie Irene Wagstaff, Laura Kathleen Waldron, Margaret Anne Walker, Edward Walker, Ellen Walker, Henrietta Walker, Winifred Mary Waller, Harry Waller, Marjorie Hope Walls, Mary Walton, Sydney Warburton, Ada Ward, Maureen Alice Ward, Minnie Ward, Muriel Margaret Ward, Percy Wardle, Eric Wareing, William Hill Warren, May Wass, Kathleen May Watkins, Annie West, Maria Wharam, Ellen Frances Wharmby, Lavinia White, Mona Ashton Whitehead, Amy Whitham, Colin Whittaker, Maureen Whittaker, Violet Mary Whittingslow, Vera Whittle, Edith Wibberley, Edith Wilcockson, Joseph Frank Wilkinson, Annie Wilkinson, Maud Williams, Albert Redvers Williams, Emily Williamson, Sarah Jane Wills, Jack Wilmore, Margaret Wilson, Muriel Elsie Wimpeney, Mark Winston, George Winston, Olive Winterbottom, Mary Wood, Annie Wood, Charles Henry Wood, Fanny Wood, James Woodhead, Joyce Woodhead, Kenneth Wharmby

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My Heroes of Dragon Age collection

I got to the point where I really only care about collecting Legendary Tier characters and so far... I’ve gotten quite a few really cool ones, including:

Dragon Age Origins:

King Alistair Ariane Morrigan Grey Warden Oghren Warden Commander Duncan The Seeker Sophia Dryden Flemeth Amethyst Shale Emerald Shale Ruby Shale Diamond Shale The Lost Grey Warden Sigrun Ser Jory Uldred First Enchanter Irving The First Paragon Caridin Crow Zevran Nathaniel Howe Apostate Jowan The Mother Grey Warden Valanna Sophia Dryden Paragon Branka Daveth Arl Rendon Howe Kolgrim Guardian of the Urn Swiftrunner Nathaniel Howe Apostate Jowan King Endrin Aeducan

Dragon Age II:

Battlemaster Marian Hawke Tallis Varric Tethras Guard Captain Aveline Harvestor Orsino Janeka Vengeance Anders Ser Pounce-A-Lot Isabela Duke Prosper Guardsmen Donnic Carver Hawke Ser Stroud Red Lyrium Meredith Merrill Keeper Marethari Larius Ketojan Arcane Garrett Hawke Saarebas Knight Captain Cullen

Dragon Age Inquisition:

Divine Leliana Briala Advisor Morrigan Skywatcher Hand of Korth Lucius Corin Ritts Great Bear The Elder One Red Lyrium Blackwall Red Lyrium Nug Felix Red Lyrium Iron Bull Samson Horror Scout Harding Warden Commander Clariel Fairbanks Charter Dorian Neria Thane Svarah Sun-Hair Knight Enchanter Helaine ZITHER! Dagna Professor Bram Kenric Duke Cyrill Empress Celene Viddasala Sentinel Spellbinder Elfie Sera Santa Blackwall Maryden Viddasala Knight-Commander Derlin Barris Krem

Dragons:

Queen of the Blackmarsh Dragon Flemeth Phoenix High Dragon

Spirits/Demons:

Nightmare Aspect Hybris Librarian Despair Demon Spirit of Justinia Sky Horror Guardian of the Urn Spirit of Hope

Creatures:

Storvacker Reindeer Mabari Alpha Goat Great Bear Risen Ogre Corrupted Spider Queen The Grand Oak Avvar Goat Legendary Lord Woolsley Witherfang Mountain Dracolisk Sharp-tail Dracolisk Hunter Shade Dracolisk Red Lyrium Nug Loyal Betyar, Dragonslayer Golden Halla Giant Snug The Bronto High Dragon Fade Touched Lurker Lord Betyar, Dragonslayer Corrupted Spiderling Schmooples

Misc (and characters I didn’t know how to categorize):

Young Cassandra Grey Warden Banner Sten, The Arishok Captain Isabela King Maric Grey Warden Knight Maevaris High Seeker Aldren Byron Lambert Van Reeves Marshal Proulx Chasind General Commander Duhaime Venetori Zealot Venetori Marksman Venetori Gladiator Crassius Servis Macrinus Cillian Naishe Qunari Shock Trooper Regalyan D’Marcall Pala Crassius Servis Macrinus Hall Tamar Rion Thornton Grey Warden Genevieve Brogan Dace Templar Banner Isseya Marshal Proulx Aurelian Titus Maevaris Grey Warden Genevieve Naishe Qunari Shock Trooper Luka Hakkonite Archer Sidony Ser Belinda Darrow Thorton

My main goal is to collect all the Dragon Age II companions, and so far the only ones I don’t have are Merrill, Bethany, and Fenris (also Sebastian, but since I still have yet to play that DLC I haven’t counted him yet). Then there are just a handful of others I’d like to get including Shianni, Scout Harding, any variant of Sera, and every legendary Leliana (Don’t Judge Me). Maybe Sandal. I had a Sandal at one point but I used him to fortify another character... mistakes were made.

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New, revised, and updated bootleg list!

•1776 Pro shot, good quality, I don’t know what cast or year.

•25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee OBC Broadway Lisa Howard (Rona Lisa Peretti), Jay Reiss (Douglas Panch), Derrick Baskin (Mitch Mahoney), Celia Keenan-Bolger (Olive Ostrovsky), Dan Fogler (William Barfee), Sarah Saltzberg (Logainne SchwartzandGrubenierre), Deborah S Craig (Marcy Park), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Leaf Coneybear), Jose Llana (Chip Tolentino)

•3 musketeers- Beverly 23 August Pro shot Cast: Kevyn Morrow, John Schiappa, Jimmy Smagula, Aaron Tveit, Kate Baldwin, Chad Ackerman, Mark Aldrich

•A Bronx Tale - Broadway November 14, 2016 OBC Nick Cordero (Sonny), Richard H. Blake (Lorenzo), Bobby Conte Thornton (Calogero), Ariana DeBose (Jane), Lucia Giannetta (Rosina), Bradley Gibson (Tyrone), Hudson Loverro (Young Calogero)

•A Chorus Line - OBC Archived Black and White Scott Allen (Roy), Renee Baughman (Kristine), Carole Bishop (Sheila), Pamela Blair (Val), Wayne Cilento (Mike), Chuck Cissel (Butch), Clive Clerk (Larry), Kay Cole (Maggie), Ronald Dennis (Richie), Donna Drake (Tricia), Brandt Edwards (Tom), Patricia Garland (Judy), Carolyn Kirsch (Lois), Ron Kuhlman (Don), Nancy Lane (Bebe0, Baayork Lee (Connie), Prscilla Lopez (Diana), Robert LuPone (Zach), Cameron Mason (Mark), Donna McKenchie (Cassie), Don Percassi (Al), Michael Serrecchia (Frank), Michel Stuart (Greg), Thomas J Walsh (Bobby), Sammy Williams (Paul), Crissy Wilzak (Vicki)

•A Chorus Line - Broadway Preview September 30th 2006 ORC (Ken Alan, Brad Anderson, Michelle Aravena, David Baum, Michael Berresse, E. Clayton Cornelious, Natalie Cortez, Mike Cannon, Charlotte D'Amboise, Mara Davi, Joey Dudding, Lyndy Franklin, Jessica Lee Goldyn, Deidre Goodwin, Tyler Hanes, Nadine Isenegger, Pamela Jordan, James T. Lane, Lorin Latarro, Paul McGill, Heather Parcells, Michael Paternostro, Alisan Porter, Jeffrey Schecter, Yuka Takara, Jason Tam, Grant Turner, Chryssie Whitehead, Tony Yazbeck)

•A Christmas Story- Broadway November 7, 2012 Dan Lauria (Jean Shepherd), John Bolton (The Old Man), Erin Dilly(Mother), Johnny Rabe (Ralphie), Zac Ballard (Randy), Caroline O'Connor (Miss Shields)

•Aida- Broadway 12 December 2001 Cast: Maya Days, Matt Bogart (u/s), Idina Menzel

•Ain’t Misbehaving OBC, other than that, I don’t know what cast or date

•Aladdin (Alan Menken)- Broadway August 22 2014 OBC Cast: Aladdin: Adam Jacobs, Jasmine: Courtney Reed, Genie: James Monroe Iglehart, Jafar: Jonathan Freeman, Sultan: Clifton Davis, Iago: Don Darryl Rivera, Babkak: Brian Gonzales, Omar: Andrew Cao (u/s), Kassim/Spooky Voice/Voice of the Cave: Brandon O’Neill, Razoul: Dennis Stowe, Prince Abdullah: Jaz Sealey, Shop Owner: Bobby Pestka, Henchmen: Donald Jones Jr, Aleks Pevec (u/s), Attendants: Tia Altinay, Khori Michelle Pentinaud, Marisha Wallace

•Aladdin (Cole Porter)- TV Broadcast 1958 Cast: Anna Maria Alberghetti, George Hall, Dennis King, Una Merkel, Sal Mineo, Basil Rathbone, Cyril Ritchard

•A Little Night Music- Broadway 2010 Bernadette Peters (Desiree Armfeldt), Elaine Stritch (Madame Armfeldt)

•Allegiance- Broadway 16 November 2015 OBC Cast: George Takei (Sam/Ojii-San), Lea Salonga (Kei), Telly Leung (Sammy), Katie Rose Clarke (Hannah), Michael K. Lee (Frankie), Christopheren Nomura (Tatsuo), Greg Watanabe (Mike)

•All Shook Up - Broadway OBC Jenn Gambatese (Natalie Haller/Ed), Johnathan Hadary (Jim Haller), Mark Price (Dennis), Sharon Wilkins (Sylvia), Nikki M James (Lorraine), Cheyenne Jackson (Chad), Alix Korey (Mayor Matilda Hyde), Cutis Holbrook (Dean Hyde), John Jellison (Sheriff Earl), Leah Hocking (Miss Sandra), Ensemble: Brad Anderson, Justin Bohon, Justin Brill, Paul Castree, Cara Cooper, Michael Cusumano, Francesca Harper, Trisha Jeffrey, Michelle Kittrell, Anika Larsen, Michael X Martin, Karen Murphy, John Eric Parker, Justin Patterson, Michael James Scott, Jenny-Lynn Suckling, Virginia Ann Woodruff

•LA December 4, 2016 Phillipa Soo (Amelie), Adam Chanler-Berat (Nino), Savvy Crawford (Young Amelie), Tony Sheldon ( Dufayel/Collignon), Alison Cimmet (Amandine/Philomene), Mandel Felciano (Raphael/Bretodeaux), Harriett D Foy (Suzanne), Randy Blair (Hipolito), Alyse Alan Louis(Georgette/Sylvie), Maria-Christina Oliveras (Gina), David Andino (Blind Beggar/Garden Gnome), Paul Whitty(Joseph/Fluffy), Heath Calvert (Lucien/Lug/Mysterious Man)

•Amélie (Broadway) − March 29, 2017 ***NFT AUGUST 1 2017*** : Philippa Soo (Amelie), Adam Chandler-Berat (Nino), Savvy Crawford (Young Amelie), Tony Sheldon (Dufayal/Colignon), Manoel Feliciano (Raphael/Bretodeaux), Alison Cimmet (Amandine/Philomene), Maria-Christina Oliveras (Gina), Harriet D. Foy (Suzanne), Alyse Ann Louis (Georgette), David Andino (Blind Beggar/Garden Gnome), Randy Blair (Hipoloto), Paul Whitty (Joseph)

•An American in Paris- Broadway March 14 2015 Cast: Robert Fairchild, Leanne Cope, Veanne Cox, Jill Paice, Brandon Uranowitz, Max von Essen

•Annie - US Tour January 30, 2010 Costa Mesa, CA Madison Kerth, David Barton, Lynn Andrews, Traci Bair, Zander Meisner, Cheryl Hoffmann, Jeffrey B. Duncan, Mackenzie Aladjem, Jordan Mariah Boezem, Roni Caggiano, Ivy Moody, Emily Rudolph, Laura Spineti, Ricky Pope, Kelly Goyette

•Annie - Broadway Revival October 15, 2012 Lilla Crawford (Annie), Katie Finneran (Miss Hannigan), Anthony Warlow (Mr Warbucks), J. Elaine Marcos (Lily St Regis), Brynn O'Malley (Grace), Clarke Thorell (Rooster), Madi Rae DiPietro (July), Georgi James (Pepper), Junah Jang (Tessie). Description: Clarity is gorgeous and there is literally no washout or bouncing. You can tell it was filmed at an angle and there are a couple small obstructions, but otherwise it’s very good quality. Quite a lot of full stage shots.

•Annie Get Your Gun 2006 Revival, I don’t know what cast.

•Anything Goes (Broadway) − April 3, 2011 Sutton Foster, Joel Grey, John McMartin, Jessica Walter, Colin Donnell, Adam Godley, Laura Osnes, Jessica Stone, Walter Charles, Robert Creighton.

•American Psycho - Broadway May 13, 2016 Benjamin Walker (Patrick Bateman), Helene Yorke (Evelyn Williams), Alice Ripley (Svetlana/Mrs. Bateman/Mrs. Wolfe), Jennifer Damiano (Jean), Drew Moerlein (Paul Owen), Dave Thomas Brown (David Van Patten)

•Anastasia Hartford, CT June 15, 2016 Matinee Christy Altomare (Anastasia), Derek Klena (Dmitry), Mary Beth Peil (Maria Feodorovna), Manoel Felciano (Gleb), John Bolton (Vlad), Caroline O'Connor (Lily), Nicole Scimeca (Young Anya)

•Asassins- Broadway May 29 2004 Cast: Neil Patrick Harris, Becky Ann Baker, James Barbour, Mario Cantone, Michael Cerveris, Mary Catherine Garrison, Alexander Gemignai, Marc Kudisch, Jeffrey Kuhn, and Denis O'Hare

•Asassins Original Off Broadway Cast

•Avenue Q - Broadway July 26, 2003 Preview  Jenifer Barnhart (Mrs. T/Bad Idea Bear), Jordan Gelber (Brian), Stephanie D´Abruzzo (Kate Monster/Lucy the Slut), John Tartaglia (Princeton/Rod), Ann Harada (Christmas Eve), Rick Lyon (Nicky/Trekkie Monster/Bad Idea Bear), Natalie Venetia Belcon (Gary Coleman)

•Barnum Live - TV Movie 1986 Michael Crawford (Phineas Taylor Barnum), Eileen Battye (Charity ‘Chairy’ Barnum), Michael Heath (Ringmaster), Christina Collier (Jenny Lind), Sharon Benson (Joice Heth), Paul Miller (Tom Thumb), Peter Barbour, Sue Barbour, Michael Cantwell, Perry Davey, James Francis Johnston, Graham Fawcett, Richard Gauntlett, Paul Goddard, Alan Heap, Amanda Newman, Joanne Robley-Dixon, Nadine Shenton, Debbie Steel, Christopher Talman, Jane Watts

•Beautiful- Broadway April 9 2014 Cast: Jessie Mueller, Jake Epstein, Anika Larsen, Jarrod Spector, Jeb Brown, Liz Larsen •Beauty and the Beast- Los Angeles 1995 Cast: Erin Dilly (Belle), James Barbour (The Beast), Burke Moses (Gaston), Gary Beach (Lumiere), Michelle Lee (Mrs. Potts), Peter Bartlett (Cogsworth), Tom Bosley (Maurice), Harrison Beal (Lefou)

•Billy Elliot- London 2005 Cast: Liam Mower (Billy), Brad Kavanagh (Michael), Brooke Havana Bailey (Debbie), Haydn Gwynne (Mrs Wilkinson), Philip Whitchurch (Dad), Chris Lennon (Tony), Ann Emery (Grandma), Alex Delamere (Mr Braithwaite), Paul Broughton (George)

•Bombshell Concert

•Bonnie & Clyde (Broadway) − November 9, 2011: Laura Osnes, Jeremy Jordan, Claybourne Elder, Melissa Van Der Schyff, Louis Hobson, Joe Hart, Talon Ackerman, Leslie Becker, Mimi Bessette, Alison Cimmet, Daniel Cooney, Jon Fletcher, Kelsey Fowler, Victor Hernandez, Michael Lanning, Garrett Long, Matt Lutz, Marissa McGowan, Tad Wilson.

•Bonnie and Clyde- La Jolla 14 November 2009 Cast: Laura Osnes, Stark Sands, Melissa van der Schyff, Claybourne Elder, Chris Peluso, Wayne Duvall, Mare Winningham, Michael Mulligan, Michael Lanning

•Book of Mormon - National Tour Chicago December 23, 2012 Nic Rouleau (Elder Price), Ben Platt(Elder Cunningham)

•Breakfast at Tiffany’s Broadway- March 9, 2013 Emilia Clarke (Holly Golightly), Cory Michael Smith (Fred), George Wendt(Joe Bell), James Yaegashi, Suzanne Bertish, John Rothman, Tony Torn, Lee Wilkof

•Bridges of Madison County- Broadway March 9 2014 Cast: Kelli O'Hara (Francesca), Steven Pasquale (Robert), Hunter Foster (Bud), Michael X. Martin (Charlie), Cass Morgan (Marge), Caitlin Kinnunen (Carolyn), Derek Klena (Michael), Whitney Bashor (Marian)

•Bring it on- Broadway, 24 October 2012 Cast: Taylor Louderman, Adrienne Warren, Ariana DeBose, Jason Gotay, Gregory Haney, Neil Haskell, Janet Krupin, Elle McLemore, Nicolas Womak

•Cabaret- Broadway November 20 2014 Cast: Alan Cumming, Emma Stone, Kristie Dale Sanders as (u/s) Fraulein Schneider, Philip Hoffman as (u/s) Herr Shultz, Bill Heck, Aaron Krohn, Gayle Rankin

•Camelot Broadway 1982 Proshot Cast: Richard Harris, Meg Bussert, Richard Muenz, Barry Ingham

•Carousel - Lincoln Center 2013 Kelli O’Hara, Jessie Mueller, Nathan Gunn, Jason Danieley, Stephanie Blythe, Alexander Gemignani

•Carousel 1994 Broadway no idea what cast or date

•Carrie- Off-Broadway March 18 2012 Cast: Molly Ranson (Carrie White), Anne Tolpegin (u/s Margaret White), Carmen Cusack (Miss Gardner), Christy Altomare (Sue Snell), Jeanna de Waal (Chris Hargensen), Derek Klena (Tommy Ross), Ben Thompson (Billy Nolan), Wayne Alan Wilcox (Mr. Stephens), Blair Goldberg (Norma), Jen Sese (Frieda), Corey Boardman (George), F. Michael Haynie (Freddy), Elly Noble (Helen), Andy Mientus (Stokes)

•Catch me if you can- Broadway, 27 April 2010 Cast: Aaron Tveit, Norbert Leo Butz, Tom Wopat, Kerry Butler, Joe Cassidy, Rachel deBenedit, Linda Hart, Timothy McCuen Piggee

•Cats- US tour, Boston 23 February 2007 Cast: Dave Schoonover (Tugger), Christopher E. Sidioli (Asparagus, Bustoher, Growltiger), Ian Lakowski (Munkustrap)

•Cats Broadway July 22, 2016 Leona Lewis (Grizabella), Tyler Hanes (Rum Tum Tugger), Ricky Ubeda (Mistoffelees), Quentin Earl Darrington (Old Deuteronomy), Eloise Kropp (Jennyanydots), Giuseppe Bausilio (Carbucketty), Jeremy Davis (Skimbleshanks), Kim Faure (Demeter), Sara Jean Ford (Jellylorum), Lili Froehlich (Electra), Daniel Gaymon (Macavity), Shonica Gooden (Rumpleteazer), Christopher Gurr (Gus/Bustopher Jones), Andy Huntington Jones (Munkustrap), Kolton Krouse (Tumblebrutus), Jess Le Protto (Mungojerrie), Georgina Pazcougin (Victoria), Emily Pynenburg (Cassandra), Arianna Rosario (SIllbub), Ahmad Smmons (Alonzo), Christine Cornish Smith (Bombalurina), Corey Snide (Coricopat), Emily Tate (Tantomile), Sharrod Wiliams (Pouncival)

•Chaplin Broadway August 22 2012 Cast: Rob McClure, Erin Mackey, Jenn Colella, Christiane Noll, Jim Borstelmann, Michael McCormick, Zachary Unger, Wayne Alan Wilcox.

•Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- London 22 January 2015 Cast: Alex Jennings (Willy Wonka), Zachary Loonie (Charlie Bucket), Vincent Finch (Augustus Gloop), Amy Carter (Veruca Salt), Rhianna Dorris (Violet Beauregarde), Daniel Rhodes (Mike Teavee), Billy Boyle (u/s Grandpa Joe)

•Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Broadway April 20, 2017 Preview ***NFT UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1, 2017*** Christian Borle (Willy Wonka), Ryan Foust (Charlie Bucket), John Rubinstein (Grandpa Joe), Emily Padgett (Mrs. Bucket), Ben Crawford (Mr. Salt), Kathy Fitzgerald (Mrs. Gloop), Alan H. Green (Mr. Beauregarde), Jackie Hoffman (Mrs. Teavee), Trista Dollison (Violet Beauregarde), F. Michael Haynie (Augustus Gloop), Emma Pfaeffle (Veruca Salt), Michael Wartella (Mike Teavee)

•Chess - Original Broadway Cast June 25, 1988 Final Show Judy Kuhn, David Carroll, Phillip Casnoff, Marcia Mitzman, Harry Goz

•Cinderella 1965 Movie (Not the one with Julie Andrews)

•Cinderella- Broadway January 1 2015 (Matinee) Cast: Ella: Keke Palmer Topher: Joe Carroll Marie: Judy Kaye Madame: Nene Leakes Gabrielle: Stephanie Gibson Charlotte: Laura Irion Jean-Michel: Todd Buonopane Lord Pinkleton: Phumzile Sojola Sebastian: Peter Bartlett Footman: Andy Mills Driver: Michael Callahan Lady of Ridicule: Jill Abramovitz

•Chitty Chitty Bang Bang- UK tour February 2010 Cast: Darren Bennett (Caractacus Potts), Katie Ray (Truly Scrumptious), John Griffiths (Grandpa Potts), Edward Peel (Baron Bomburst/Lord Scrumptious), Kim Ismay (Baroness Bomburst/Miss Philips), Dean Maynard (Child Catcher)

•Come From Away - Broadway March 10, 2017 ***NFT UNTIL JULY 15, 2017*** Petrina Bromley (Bonnie/Others),Geno Carr (Oz/Others), Jenn Colella(Beverly/Annette/Others), Joel Hatch (Claude/Others), Rodney Hicks (Bob/Others), Kendra Kassebaum(Janice/Others), Chad Kimball (Kevin T/Garth/Others), Lee MacDougall(Nick/Doug/Others), Caesar Samayoa (Kevin J/Ali/Others), Q. Smith (Hannah/Others), Astrid Van Wieren (Beulah/Others), Sharon Wheatley(Diane/Others)

•Company- Broadway 15 June 2011 Cast: Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Colbert, Patti LuPone, Craig Bierko, Jon Cryer, Christina Hendricks, Katie Finneran, Aaron Lazar, Jill Paice, Martha, Plimpton, Anika Noni Rose, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Jim Walton, Chryssie Whitehead

•Crazy for You OBC? no idea what cast or date.

•Cry Baby OBC? no idea what cast or date

•Curious Woof Broadway? no idea what cast or date

•Cursed Child Audio only, original cast

•Dames at Sea - Broadway October 18, 2015 John Bolton (The Captain/Hennesey), Mara Davi (Joan), Danny Gardner (Lucky), Eloise Kropp (Ruby), Lesli Margherita (Mona Kent), Cary Tedder (Dick)

•Dear Evan Hansen (Broadway) − November 2016: Ben Platt (Evan), Laura Dreyfuss (Zoe), Will Roland (Jared), Kristolyn Lloyd (Alana), Mike Faist (Connor), Rachel Bay Jones (Heidi), Michael Park (Larry), Jennifer Laura Thompson (Cynthia).

•Disaster! The Musical- Broadway February 20, 2016 Adam Pascal (Chad), Roger Bart (Tony), Faith Prince (Shirley), Seth Rudetsky (Ted Scheider), Kerry Butler (Marianne), Kevin Chamberlin (Maury), Rachel York (Jackie), Jennifer Simard (Sister Mary), Baylee Litrell (Ben/Lisa), Max Crumm (Scott), Lacretta Nicole (Levora)

•Dreamgirls Broadway December 1981 Jennifer Holiday (Effie Melody White), Sheryl Lee Ralph (Deena Jones), Loretta Devine (Lorrell Robinson), Cleaving Derricks (James “Thunder” Early)

•Dreamgirls in Concert 2001 Audra McDonald, Heather Headly, Billy Porter

•Elf- Broadway 16 November 2011 Cast: Sebastian Arcelus, Amy Spanger, Beth Leavel, George Wendt, Mark Jacoby, Michael McCormick, Michael Mandell, Mattew Gumley, Valerie Wright

•Evita Original Cast with Patti LuPone besides that I have no idea what cast or date

•Evita - European Tour 1997 Harold Prince Version Susan Carr George (Evita), James Sbano (Che), Jeff Austin (Juan Peron), Scott Hayward (Magaldi), Zoe Abbott (Mistress)

•Evita- Broadway 15 August 2012 Cast: Jessica Lea Patty (u/s Eva), Ricky Martin, Michael Cerveris, Max von Essen, Rachel Potter

•Falsettoland - OOBC Stephen Bogardus, Chip Zien, Michael Rupert, Faith Prince, Heather McCrae

•Falsettos - Los Angeles 1993 OBC (Except for Jason who is played by Sivan Cotel.)

•Falsettos - Broadway October 28, 2016 Stephanie J. Block (Trina), Christian Borle (Marvin), Andrew Rannells (Whizzer), Anthony Rosenthal (Jason), Brandon Uranowitz (Mendel), Betsy Wolfe (Cordelia), Tracie Thoms (Charlotte)

•Falsettos (Broadway) − December 30, 2017: Christian Borle, Andrew Rannells, Stephanie J. Block, Brandon Uranowitz, Anthony Rosenthal, Tracie Thoms, Betsy Wolfe.

•Fiddler on the Roof - Broadway February 28th 2004 Cast : Alfred Molina (Tevye), Randy Graff (Golde), Nancy Opel, Stephen Lee Anderson, David Ayers, Laura Michelle  Kelly, Sally Murphy

•Fiddler on the Roof- Broadway 29 December 2015 Cast: Danny Burstein, Jessica Hecht, Alexandra Silber, Samantha Massell, Melanie Moore, Jenny Rose Baker, Hayley Feinstein, Alix Korey, Adam Kantor, Ben Rappaport, Nick Rehberger, Adam Dannheisser, Karl Kenzler, Michael C Bernardi, Adam Grupper, Jeffrey Schecter, George Psomas, Lori Wilner, Jessica Vosk, Mitch Greenberg, Aaron Young, Jennifer Zetlan

•Finding Neverland- Broadway July 22 2015 Cast: Kevin Kern as (u/s) J.M. Barrie, Laura Michelle Kelly, Anthony Warlow, Carolee Carmello, Teal Wicks, Christopher Paul Richards as Peter, Eli Toikash as Jack, Casey Butler as George, Alex Dreier as Michael

•First Date- Broadway, July 13 2013 Cast: Zachary Levi, Krysta Rodriguez, Sara Chase, Kristoffer Cusick, Blake Hammond, Kate Loprest, Bryce Ryness

•Follies- Broadway 6 November 2011 Cast: Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Danny Burstein, Ron Raines, Elaine Paige, Don Correla, Christian Delcroix, Rosalind Elias, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Danielle Jordan (u/s Young Sally), Michael Hayes, Leah Horowitz, Jayne Houdyshell, Florence Lacey, Mary Beth Peil

•Frozen at the Hyperion-California 28 May 2016

•Fun Home- Broadway March 29 2015 Cast: Michael Cerveris, Judy Kuhn, Beth Malone, Sydney Lucas, Emily Skeggs, Roberta Colindrez, Zell Steele Morrow, Joel Perez, Oscar Williams

•Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder- Broadway 3 May 2014 Cast: Jefferson Mays, Bryce Pinkham, Lisa OHare, Lauren Worsham, Jane Carr, Joanna Glushak, Eddie Korbich, Pamela Bob

•Gentlemen Perfer Blondes- New York City Encores 12 May 2012 Cast: Megan Hilty, Rachel York, Phillip Attmore, Steven Boyer, Brennan Brown, Stephen R. Buntrock, Jared Grimes, Simon Jones, Aaron Lazar, Deborah Rush, Sandra Shipley, Megan Sikora, Clarke Thorell

•Gigi- Broadway March 28 2015 Cast: Vanessa Hudgens, Victoria Clark, Corey Cott, Dee Hoty, Howard McGillin, Steffanie Leigh

•Godspell -Broadway Revival November 13th 2011 Cast: Hunter Parrish, Telly Leung, Lindsay Mendez, Wallace Smith, Uzo Aduba, Joaquina Kalukango

•Guys and Dolls 1991 with Nathan Lane and Faith Prince, other than that, I don’t know what cast or date

•Grease Live! 31 January 2016 Cast: Aaron Tveit, Julianne Hough, Vanessa Hudgens, Keke Palmer, Kether Donohue, Jordan Fisher, Carly Rae Jepsen, Didi Conn, Carlos PenaVega, Eve Plumb, Ana Gasteyer, Mario Lopez, Joe, Jonas, Jessie J, Sam Clark, Etc.

•Grey Gardens -Broadway December 6th 2006 Cast : Christine Ebersole, Mary Louise Wilson, John McMartin, Erin Davie, Matt Cavenaugh

•Groundhog Day - Broadway April 1, 2017 ***NFT UNTIL AUGUST 1, 2017*** Andy Karl (Phil Connors), Barrett Doss(Rita Hanson), Rebecca Faulkenberry (Nancy/Ensemble), John Sanders (Ned Ryerson/Ensemble), Andrew Call (Gus/Ensemble), Gerard Canonico (Fred/Ensemble), Josh Lamon (Buster/Ensemble), Raymond J. Lee (Ralph/Ensemble), Heather Ayers (Mrs. Lancaster/Ensemble)

•Gypsy- Broadway 1991 audio only for Act two Cast: Tyne Daly, Jonathan Hadary, Crista Moore, Robert Lambert, Tracy Venner

•Gypsy- Broadway 4 April 2003 Cast: Bernadette Peters, John Dossett, Tammy Blanchard

•Gypsy- Broadway, 25 March 2008 Cast: Patti Lupone, Laura Benanti, Boyd Gaines, Leigh Ann Larkin

•Gypsy - Bette Midler Movie 1993

•Hair- Broadway 15 March 2009 Cast: Gavin Creel, Will Swenson, Caissie Levy, Sasha Allen, Allison Case, Andrew Kober, Megan Lawrence, Darius Nichols, Bryce Ryness, Kacie Sheik

•Hairspray- Broadway 25 November 2006 Cast: Shannon Durig, Blake Hammond, Diana DeGarmo, Stephen DeRosa, Darlene Love, Tevin Campbell, Jonathan Dokuchitz, Lisa Jolley, Isabel Keating, Tara Macri, Kevin Meaney, Naturi Naughton, Aaron Tveit

•Hairspray- London October 16 2007 Cast: Michael Ball (Edna Turnblad), Mel Smith (Wilbur Turnblad), Leanne Jones (Tracy Turnblad), Ben James-Ellis (Link Larkin), Tracie Bennett (Velma von Tussle), Elinor Collett (Penny Pingleton), Johnnie Fiori(Motormouth Maybelle), Adrian Hansel (Seaweed), Rachael Wooding (Amber von Tussle)

•Hairspray- National Tour December 13, 2005 Keala Settle (Tracy Turnblad), Dale Calandra (u/s Edna Turnblad), Charlotte Crossley (Motormouth Maybelle), Susan Henley (Velma Von Tussle), Aaron Tveit (Link Larkin), Melissa Larsen (u/s Penny Pingleton), Alan Mingo Jr. (Seaweed), Bryan Crawford (u/s Corny Collins), Jane Blass (Prudy Pingleton/The Teacher/The Matron),Jim J. Bullock (Wilbur Turnblad)

•Hamilton- Broadway December 29 2015 Cast: Hamilton: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Eliza Hamilton: Phillipa Soo, Aaron Burr: Leslie Odom, Jr, Angelica Schuyler: Renee Elise Goldsberry, George Washington: Christopher Jackson, Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson: Daveed Diggs, Hercules Mulligan/James Madison: Okieriete Onaodowan, John Laurens/Philip Hamilton: Anthony Ramos, Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds: Jasmine Cephas Jones, King George: Jonathan Groff, Philip Schuyler/James Reynolds/Doctor: Sydney James Harcourt, Samuel Seabury: Daniel J Watts, Charles Lee: Neil Haskell, George Eacker: Ephraim Sykes. Ensemble: Gerald Avery, Carleigh Bettiol, Neil Haskell, Sasha Hutchings, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Austin Smith, Betsy Struxness, Ephraim Sykes, Kamille Upshaw, Daniel J Watts

•Hamilton (Broadway) − June 19, 2016: Javier Muñoz (u/s Alexander Hamilton), Nicholas Christopher (u/s George Washington), Andrew Chappelle (u/s Laurens/Philip), Alysha Deslorieux (s/b Peggy/Maria), the rest is the Original Broadway Cast.

•Hello Dolly- US tour, Melbourne 17-19 December 1977 pro shot Cast: Carol Channing (Dolly), Jay Garner (Horace), Lee Roy Reams (Cornelius), Jeanne Lehman (Irene), Scott Bridges (Barnaby), Monica Lee Gradischek (Minnie), Monica M. Wemitt (Ernestina), James Darrah (Ambrose), Christine DeVito (Ermengarde), Judi Mann (Mrs. Rose), Herman Petras (Rudolph), Michael Shames (Stanley), Roger Preston Smith (Judge)

•Hello Dolly- UK tour 2008 pro shot Cast: Anita Dobson (Dolly Levy), Carol Ball (Ernestina), Samuel Board (Ambrose Kemper), David McAlister (Horace Vandergelder), Sophir Wilkins (Ermengarde), Darren Day (Cornelius Hackl), Hamilton Sargent (Barnaby Tucker), Amanda Salmon (Minnie Fay), Louise English (Irene Molloy), Christopher Marlowe (Rudolph/Judge)

•Hello Dolly - Broadway March 30, 2017 ***NFT AUGUST 1st 2017***Bette Midler (Dolly Gallagher Levi), David Hyde Pierce (Horace Vandergelder), Kate Baldwin (Irene Malloy), Christian Dante White (u/s Cornelius Hackl), Taylor Trensch (Barnaby Tucker), Beanie Feldstein (Minnie Faye), Will Burton (Ambrose Kemper), Melanie Moore (Ermengarde), Jennifer Simard (Ernestina)

•Holiday Inn- Broadway January 14, 2017 pro shot Bryce Pinkham (Jim), Corbin Bleu (Ted), Lora Lee Gayer (Linda), Megan Lawrence (Louise), Megan Sikora (Lila Dixon), Lee Wilkof, Malik Akil, Will Burton, Darien Crago, Morgan Gao, Matt Meigs, Shina Ann Morris, Drew Redington, Catherine Ricafort, Amanda Rose, Jonalyn Saxer, Samantha Sturm, Amy Van Norstrand, Travis Ward-Osborne, Paige Williams, Victor Wisehart, Kevin Worley, Borris York

•Honeymoon in Vegas - Broadway December 5, 2014 Rob McClure (Jack Singer), Brynn O'Malley (Betsy), Tony Danza (Tommy Korman), David Josefsberg (Buddy Rocky/Roy Bacon), Nancy Opel (Bea Singer), Matthew Saldivar (Johnny Sandwich)

•How to succeed in bussiness without really trying- Broadway 1995 Cast: Matthew Broderick (J. Pierrepont Finch), Megan Mullally (Rosemary Pilkington), Ronn Carroll (JB Biggley), Jeff Blumenkrantz (Bud Frump), Jonathan Freeman (Bert Bratt), Victoria Clark (Smitty), Luba Mason (Hedy La Rue), Lillias White (Miss Jones)

•How to succeed in business without really trying- Broadway, 28 February 2011 Cast: Daniel Radcliffe (J. Pierrepont Finch), John Larroquette (J.B. Biggley), Rose Hemingway (Rosemary Pilkington), Tammy Blanchard (Hedy LaRue), Christopher J. Hanke (Bud Frump), Rob Bartlett (Mr. Timble), Mary Faber (Smitty), Ellen Harvey (Miss Jones), Michael Park (Bert Bratt), Cameron Adams (Kathy), Cleve Asbury (Mr. Ovington), Tanya Birl (Nancy), Kevin Cobert (Mr. Johnson), Paige Faure (Miss Grabowski), David Hull (Mr. Toynbee), Justin Keyes (Mr. Davis), Marty Lawson (Mr. Peterson), Barrett Martin (Mr. Andrews), Nick Mayo (Mr. Gatch), Sarah O'Gleby, Stephanie Rothenberg (Meredith), Megan Sikora (Miss Krumholz), Joey Sorge (Mr. Tackaberry), Ryan Watkinson (Mr. Matthews), Charlie Williams (Mr. Jenkins), Samantha Zack (Lily), Anderson Cooper (Voice of the Narrator)

•If/Then- Broadway March 8 2014 Cast: Idina Menzel, LaChanze, Anthony Rapp, James Snyder, Jerry Dixon, Jenn Colella, Jason Tam, Tamika Lawrence

•Into the Woods- Broadway, May 1989 Cast: Bernadette Peters (The Witch), Joanna Gleason (The Baker’s Wife), Chip Zien (The Baker), Tom Aldredge (Narrator/Mysterious Old Man), Kim Crosby (Cinderella), Danielle Ferland (Little Red Riding Hood), Robert Westenberg (Wolf/Cinderella’s Prince), Ben Wright (Jack), Barbara Bryne (Jack’s Mother), Merle Louise (Grandmother/Cinderella’s Mother/Giant), Chuck Wagner (Rapunzel’s Prince), Pamela Winslow (Rapunzel), Philip Hoffman (Steward), Lauren Mitchell (Lucinda), Kay McClelland (Florinda)

•Into the Woods- Central Park 28 July 2012 Cast: Donna Murphy, Amy Adams, Chip Zien, Denis O'Hare, Gideon Glick, Jessie Mueller, Sarah Stiles, Ellen Harvey, Ivan Hernandez, Josh Lamon, Laura Shoop, Tess Soltau, Kristine Zbornik, Jack Broderick, Eric Williams as (u/s) Rapunzel’s Prince, Glenn Close

•In Transit - Broadway November 13, 2016 Justin Guarini (Trent), Erin Mackey(Ali), Telly Leung (Steven), James Snyder (Nate), David Abeles (Dave), Moya Angela (Momma/Ms. Williams/Booth Lady), Chesney Snow(Boxman), Margo Seibert (Jane), Mariand Torres (Nina)

•It Shoulda Been You- Broadway July 21 2015 Cast: Sierra Boggess (Rebecca Steinberg), Tyne Daly (Judy Steinberg), Harriet Harris (Georgette Howard), Lisa Howard (Jenny Steinberg), Aaron C. Finley (u/s Brian Howard), Montego Glover (Annie Shepherd), Josh Grisetti (Marty Kaufman), Adam Heller (Walt/Uncle Morty), Edward Hibbert (Albert), Michael X. Martin (George Howard), Anne L. Nathan (Aunt Sheila/Mimsy), Nick Spangler (Gred Madison), Chip Zien (Murray Steinberg)

•Jekyll and Hyde- Broadway 1997 Cast: Robert Cuccioli, Christianne Noll, Linda Eder / Emily Skinner (u/s), Barrie Ingham

•Jersey Boys- Broadway 19 November 2005 Cast: Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer, John Lloyd Young, Peter Gregus, Mark Lotito, Tituss Burgess, Heather Ferguson, Steve Gouveia, Donnie Kehr, John Leone, Michael Longoria

•Jesus Christ Superstar - Farewell Tour - Milwaukee Theatre - Ted Neeley (Jesus of Nazareth), Corey Glover (Judas Iscariot), Christina Rea-Briskin (Mary Magdalene), Larry Alan Coke (Caiphas), Jeremy Pasha (Annas), Craig Sculli (Pointius Pilate), Aaron Fuska (King Herod), Chris Gleim (Peter), Jason D Bush (Simon), Darrel R Whitney (First Priest), Tony Castellanos (Second Priest), Camilo Castro (Third Priest), Lorelei Prince (Maid by the Fire), Soul Singers/Disciples: Bianca Atalaya, Rasmiyyah Feliciano, Margaret M Spirito, Disciple Girls: Nancy Emerson, Tess Ferrell, Apostles: Nick Algier, Gabe Belyeu, Jason R Cook, Michael Fasano, Thomas C Lash, Matthew G Myers, Fred J Ross, Troy Valjean Rucker, Jonathan Walsh 

•Jesus Christ Superstar- La Jolla, 4 December 2011 Cast: Paul Nolan, Jeremy Kushnier (u/s Judas), Chilina Kennedy, Sandy Winsby (u/s Pilate), Bruce Dow, Marcus Nance, Lee Siegel, Aaron Walpole, Mike Nadajewski

•Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat- London, 17 October 2007 Cast: Lee Mead, Fiona Reyes as (alt) Narrator, Dean Collinson, Stephen Tate, John Alastair, Neal Wright

•Kinky Boots- Broadway, March 3 2013 Cast: Stark Sands, Billy Porter, Annaleigh Ashford, Celina Carvajal, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Marcus Neville.

•Kinky Boots- US tour, Los Angeles 15 November 2014 Cast: Steven Booth, Kyle Taylor Parker, Lindsay Nicole Chambers, Joe Coots, Grace Stockdale, Craig Waletzko, Amelia Cormack, Mike Longo, Ross Lekit es, Bonnie Milligan, David McDonald, Horace V. Rogers, Anne Tolpegin, Anthony Picarello, Andrew Theo Johnson

•Kinky Boots - National Tour April 17, 2016 Evening Adam Kaplan (Charlie Price), J Harrison Ghee (Lola/Simon), Tiffany Engen (Lauren), Aaron Walpole (Don), Charissa Hogeland (Nicola), Jim J Bullock (George), Shawna M Hamic, Josh Tolle (Harry), Zach Adkins, Patty Lohr (Pat), Tom Souhrada (Mr. Price), Horace V Rogers, Annie Edgerton (Milan Stage Manager), Aidan Passaro(Young Charlie), Jomil Elijah Robinson

•Kiss Me Kate- London 2002 pro shot Cast: Brent Barrett, Rachel York, Nancy Anderson, Michael Berresse, Teddy Kemper, Jack Chissick

•La Cage Aux Folles- Broadway April 7 2010 Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Douglas Hodge, Fred Applegate, Veanne Cox, Chris Hoch, Elena Shaddow, A.J. Shively, Nick Adams, Christine Andreas, Robin De Jesus

•Legally Blonde- San Fransisco February 24 2007 Cast: Laura Bell Bundy (Elle), Christian Borle (Emmett), Orfeh (Paulette), Richard H. Blake (Warner), Kate Shindle (Vivienne), Michael Rupert (Professor Callahan), Nikki Snelson, (Brooke/Shandi), Leslie Kritzer (Serena), Annaleigh Ashford (Margot), DeQuina Moore (Pilar), Natalie Joy Johnson (Enid/Veronica)

•Les Miserables- Broadway March 8 2014 Cast: Ramin Karimloo, Will Swenson, Caissie Levy, Nikki M. James, Cliff Saunders, Keala Settle, Samantha Hill, Andy Mientus, Kyle Scatliffe, Angeli Negron

•Little Shop of Horrors- Broadway September 21, 2003 Hunter Foster (Seymour), Kerry Butler (Audrey), Douglas Sills (Orin), Rob Bartlett (Mr. Mushnik), DeQuina Moore (Chiffon), Carla J. Hargrove, Trisha Jeffrey

•Little Shop of Horrors- UK tour, Liverpool, May 4 2009 Cast: Clare Buckfield (Audrey), Damian Humbley (Seymour), Alex Ferns (Orin), Sylvester McCoy (Mushnik), Clive Rowe (Voice of Audrey II), Nadia Di Mambro (Crystal), Lara Martin (Chiffon), Donna Hines (Ronette)

•Little Shop of Horrors- New York City Center Encores 2 July 2015 Cast: Ellen Greene, Jake Gyllenhaal, Taran Killam, Eddie Cooper, Joe Grifasi, Tracy Nicole Chapman, Marva Hicks, Ramona Keller

•Little Women - OBC (Sutton Foster, Megan McGinnis)

•Loves Never Dies - London April 29 2010 Cast : Ramin Karimloo (Phantom), Sierra Boggess (Christine), Joseph Millson (Raoul), Richard Linnell (Gustave)

•Mamma Mia- London 14 September 2002 Cast: Laura Michelle Kelly (Sophie), Louise Plowright (Donna), Simon Slater (Sam)

•Mary Poppins- US tour February 15 2013 Cast: Con O'Shea-Creal (Bert), Madeline Trumble (Mary Poppins), Madison Ann Mullahey (Jane Banks), Eli Tokash (Michael Banks), Chris K. Hoch (George Banks), Kerry Conte (Winifred Banks)

•Memphis pro shot, original Cast,

•Miss Saigon (Broadway) - January 7 2001 Kim- Lea Salonga The Engineer- Louyong Wang Chris- Will Chase John- Charles Wallace Ellen- Ruthie Hensall Thuy - Michael K Lee Gigi - Charlene Carabeo

•My Fair Lady- UK tour, Palace Theatre Manchester, 12th October 2005 pro shot Cast: Amy Nuttall (Eliza), Christopher Cazenove (Professor Higgins), Russ Abbot, Honor Blackman, Stephen Moore, Stephen Carlile, Romy Baskerville

•Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway) − October 29, 2016: Josh Groban, Denee Benton, Brittain Ashford, Nicholas Belton, Lucas Steele, Gelsey Bell, Nick Choksi, Amber Gray. Odd angle for such a complex scene and medium video quality but gets the job done. Denée is excellent as Natasha.

•Nine- Broadway 30 March 2003 Cast: Antonio Banderas, Laura Benanti, Jane Krakowski, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chita Rivera

•Newsies Live! Los Angeles, CA September 11, 2016 Jeremy Jordan, Kara Lindsay, Ben Fankhauser, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Steve Blanchard, Ethan Steiner, Aisha De Haas

•Next to Normal (Broadway) − July 18, 2010: Alice Ripley (Diana), Brian D’Arcy James (Dan), Kyle Dean Massey (Gabe), Jennifer Damiano (Natalie), Adam Chanler-Berat (Henry), Louis Hobson (Dr. Fine / Dr. Madden). Alice, Brian and Jennifer’s last show. VOB.

•Nice Work if You Can Get It Kelli O'Hara other than that, I don’t know what cast or date

•Oklahoma (1999 with Hugh

•Oliver- London September 2010 Cast: Russ Abbot (Fagin), Kerry Ellis (Nancy), Steven Hartley (Sikes), Edward Cooke (Oliver), Ben Wilson (Dodger)

•On A Clear Day You Can See Forever- Broadway 12 November 2011 Cast: Harry Connick Jr., David Turner, Jessie Mueller, Kerry O'Malley, Drew Gehling, Sarah Stiles, Paul O'Brien, Heather Ayers, Lori Wilner

•On the 20th Century- Broadway February 21 2015 Cast: Kristin Chenoweth, Peter Gallagher, Andy Karl, Mark Linn-Baker, Michael McGrath, Mary Louise Wilson

•On The Town- Broadway October 1 2014 Cast: Tony Yazbeck, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Clyde Alves, Megan Fairchild, Alysha Umphress, Elizabeth Stanley, Jackie Hoffman, Michael Rupert, Allison Guinn

•On Your Feet! (Broadway Preview) − October 17, 2015: Ana Villafane, Josh Segarra, Andrea Burns, Alma Cuervo, Eliseo Roman, Genny Lis Padilla, Alexandria Suarez, Eduardo Hernandez.

•Pacific Overtures- Broadway 9 June 1976 (TV Broadcast) Cast: Mako, Soon-Tek Oh, Yuki Shimoda, Sab Shimono, Isao Sato, Alvin Ing, Ernest Harada, James Dybas

•Pal Joey - Broadway Revival 2008 Matthew Risch, Stockard Channing. Martha Plimpton, Jenny Fellner, Robert Clohessy. 

•Paramour - Broadway May 11, 2016 Jeremy Kushnier (AJ Golden), Ruby Lewis (Indigo James), Ryan Vona (Joey Green), Bret Shuford (Robbie), Sarah Meahl (Gina)

•Peter Pan - Proshot Cathy Rigby Tour June 2012

•Peter and the Starcatcher- Broadway 4 November 2012 Cast: Christian Borle, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Matthew Saldivar, Teddy Bergman, Arnie Burton, Matt D'Amico, Kevin Del Aguila, Carson Elrod, Greg Hildreth, Rick Holmes, Isaiah Johnson, Eric Petersen, Betsy Hogg, Orville Mendoza, Jason Ralph, John Sanders

•The Phantom of the Opera- Broadway April 1988 Cast: Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman, Steve Barton

•The Phantom of the Opera Norm Lewis and Sierra Bogess other than this, I don’t know what cast or date

•Pippin- Broadway July 13 2013 Cast: Matthew James Thomas, Patina Miller, Terrence Mann, Charlotte d'Amoise, Rachel Bay Jones, Andrea Martin

•Promises, Promises- Broadway 1 April 2012 Cast: Sean Hayes (Chuck Baxter), Kristin Chenoweth (Fran Kubelik), Tony Goldwyn (J.D. Sheldrake), Katie Finneran (Marge MacDougall), Dick Latessa (Dr. Dreyfuss), Brooks Ashmannskas (Mr. Dobitch)

•RENT (OBC - Opening Night) - April 29, 1996 - Anthony Rapp (Mark Cohen), Adam Pascal (Roger Davis), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Mimi Marquez), Jesse L. Martin (Tom Collins), Wilson Jermaine Heredia (Angel Dumott Schunard), Idina Menzel (Maureen Johnson), Fredi Walker (Joanne Jefferson), Taye Diggs (Benjamin Coffin III)

Rent (Broadway) − September 7, 2008: Adam Kantor, Will Chase, Michael McElroy, Rodney Hicks, Tracie Thoms, Justin Johnston, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Eden Espinosa. Tracked. Closing performance. Pro-shot.

•Rocky: The Musical (Broadway) − March 29, 2014: Andy Karl (Rocky Balboa), Margo Seibert (Adrian Pennino), Terence Archie (Apollo Creed), Dakin Matthews (Mickey Goldmill), Danny Mastrogiorgio (Paulie Pennino), Jennifer Mudge (Gloria)

•Rocky Horror - Picadilly Theatre 1991 Anthony Head (Frank N Furter), Craig Ferguson (Brad), Zailie Burrow (Janet), Tim Whitnall (Riff Raff), The Narrator (Peter Bayliss), Kate O'sullivan (Magenta), Ivan Kaye (Eddie/Scott), Vicky Likorish (Columbia), Adam Cairie (Rocky) Phantoms: Ian good, Mark S Turnbull, Steve Thiebaut, Julia Hampson and Penny (surname unknown)

•Rocky Horror Broadway September 9, 2001 Terrence Mann (Frank N. Furter), Jarrod Emmick (Brad),  Kristen Lee Kelly (u/s Janet), Daphne Rubin-Vega (Magenta), Dick Cavett (Narrator), Aiko Nakasone (u/s), Mark Price, Sebastian LaCause, James Stovall, Jonathan Sharp, Rosa Curry, Kevin Cahoon, Asa Somers, John Jeffrey Martin, Denise Summerford

•Rocky Horror 2015 Professionally filmed

•Rocky Horror Picture Show 2016 Movie - Laverne Cox, Victoria Justice (Janet), Ryan McCartan (Brad)

•School of Rock- Broadway November 2015 Cast: Alex Brightman (Dewey), Sierra Boggess (Rosalie), Spencer Moses (Ned), Mamie Parris (Patty), Isabella Russo (Summer), Dante Melucci (Freddy), Brandon Niederauer (Zack), Jared Parker (Lawrence), Evie Dolan (Katie), Bobbi MacKenzie (Tomika)

•Seussical The Musical - February 9th 2001 Cast: Rosie O'Donnell, Kevin Chamberlin

•She Loves Me- Broadway 30 June 2016 pro shot Cast: Laura Benanti (Amalia), Zachary Levi (Georg), Jane Krakowski (Ilona), Gavin Creel (Kodaly), Byron Jennings (Maraczek), Tom McGowan (Sipos), Peter Bartlett (Head Waiter), Nicholas Barasch (Arpad)

•Show Boat- Wichita August 2001 Pro shot Cast: Frank Anderson, Darcy Fulliam, Kelli O'Hara, Gary Mauer, Terry Burrell.

•Shuffle Along - Broadway April 12, 2016 Audra McDonald (Lottie Gee), Billy Porter (Aubrey Lyles), Brian Stokes Mitchell (F.E. Miller), Joshua Henry (Noble Sissle), Adrienne Warren (Gertrude Saunders/Florence Mills), Brooks Ashmanskas (Al/Izzy/Mr. Broadway/Carlo), Amber Iman (Eva/Mattie Wilkes/Madame-Madame/Downtown Dilettante)

•Side Show- Broadway January 4 2015 Cast: Violet Hilton: Erin Davie Daisy Hilton: Emily Padgett Terry Connor: Ryan Silverman Buddy Foster: Matthew Hydzik Jake: David St Louis Sir: Robert Joy 3-Legged Man, Suitor: Brandon Bieber Geek, Doctor: matthew Patrick Davis Fortune Teller: Charity Angel Dawson

•Sister act- Broadway April 2 2011 Cast: Patina Miller, Victoria Clark, Fred Applegate, Sarah Bolt, John Treacy, Egan, Demond Green, Chester Gregory, Marla Mindelle, Kingsley Leggs

•Something Rotten Broadway March 23, 2015 Preview Brian d'Archy James (Nick Bottom), John Cariani (Nigel Bottom), Heidi Blickenstaff (Bea), Christian Borle (Shakespeare), Brad Oscar (Nostradamus), Kate Reinders (Portia),Brooks Ashmanskas (Brother Jeremiah), Peter Bartlett (Lord Clapham), Gerry Cichi (Shylock), Michael James Scott (Minstrel)

•South Pacific- London 1952 pro shot Cast: Mary Martin and Wilbur Evans

•Spring Awakening- Broadway 18 October 2015 Cast: Austin Mckenzie (Melchior), Daniel N. Durant (Moritz), Alex Boniello (Voice Of Moritz), Sandra Mae Frank (Wendla), Katie Boeck (Voice Of Wendla), Krysta Rodriguez (Ilse), Treshelle Edmond (Martha), Kathryn Gallagher (Voice Of Martha), Amelia Hensley (Thea), Lauren M. Luiz (Heidi/Voice Of Thea), Ali Stroker (Anna), Miles Barbee (Otto), Sean Grandillo (Voice Of Otto), Alex Wyse (Georg), Andy Mientus (Hanschen), Joshua Castille (Ernst), Daniel David Stewart (Voice Of Ernst), Camryn Manheim & Marlee Matlin (Adult Women), Patrick Page & Russell Harvard (Adult Men)

•Starlight Express Las Vegas 1997 I don’t know what cast or date

•Sunday in the Park with George Bernadette Peters with Spanish subtitles

•Sunset Boulevard- Los Angeles 1994 Glenn Close (Norma Desmond), Alan Campbell (Joe Gillis), George Hearn (Max von Mayerling)

•Sunset Boulevard- Broadway July 14, 1995 Betty Buckley (Norma Desmond), Alan Campbell (Joe Gillis), Alice Ripley(Betty Schaefer), Steven Stein-Grainger (u/s Max Von Mayerling)

•Sunset Boulevard- Broadway February 2, 2017 Glenn Close (Norma Desmond), Michael Xavier (Joe Gillis), Siobhan Dillon (Betty Schaeffer), Fred Johanson (Max von Mayerling), Preston Truman Boyd (Artie Green), Paul Schoeffler (Cecil B.DeMille), Andy Taylor (Sheldrake), Jim Walton (Manfred)

•Sweeney Todd- Broadway January 1980 Cast: Len Cariou, Angela Lansbury, Victor Garber, Ken Jennings, Betsy Joslyn, Cris Groenendaal

•Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – In Concert 2001. Pro-Shot. George Hearn, Patti LuPone, Neil Patrick Harris, Timothy Nolen, Davis Gaines, Lisa Vroman, Victoria Clark , John Aler and Stanford Olsen.

•Sweeney Todd- Broadway 2 April 2006 Cast: Patti LuPone, Michael Cerveris, Mark Jacoby, Donna Lynne Champlin, Manoel Felciano, Benjamin Magnuson, Lauren Molina, Alexander Gemingnani, Diana Dimarzio

•Sweeney Todd- London 2011 Cast: Michael Ball, Imelda Staunton, John Bowe, Peter Polycarpou, Rob Bur

•Sweeney Todd- New York September 26 2014 pro-shot Cast: Bryn Terfel, Emma Thompson, Jeff Blumenkrantz, Christian Borle, Kyle Brenn, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Erin Mackey, Philip Quast

•Sweet Charity - Tour April 29th 2007 Cast : East Lansing, MI Molly Ringwald, Bridget Berger, Francesca Harper, Guy Adkins, Aaron Ramey, Richard Ruiz

•Tarzan- Broadway, 30 March 2006 Cast: Josh Strickland, Jenn Gambatese, Merle Danridge, Shuler Hensley

•The Addams Family- Broadway March 21 2011 Cast: Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth, Terrence Mann, Carolee Carmello, Kevin Chamberlin, Jackie Hoffman, Zachary James, Wesley Taylor, Krysta Rodriguez, Adam Riegler

•The Amazing Tour Is Not On Fire - Pro shot - Cast: Dan , Phil , Others

•The Apple Tree (Kristen Chenwoth)

•The Color Purple (Broadway) − November 5, 2016: Cynthia Erivo (Celie), Heather Headley (Shug Avery), Danielle Brooks (Sofia), Joaquina Kalukungo (Nettie), Isaiah Johnson (Mister), Kyle Scatliffe (Harpo).

•The Drowsy Chaperone OBC I don’t know what cast or date but with Sutton Foster

•The Great American Trailer Park the Musical - Off-Broadway Dodger Stages December 4, 2005 Cast : Linda Hart (Betty), Orfeh (Pepper), Shuler Hensley (Norbert), Leslie Kritzer (Pickles), Kaitlin Hopkins (Jeanne), Wayne Wilcox (Duke).

•The King and I- Broadway 28 March 2015 Cast: Kelli O'Hara, Ken Watanabe, Edward Baker-Duly, Jon Viktor Corpuz, Murphy Guyer, Jake Lucas, Ruthie Ann Miles, Paul Nakauchi, Marc Oka, Ashley Park, Conrad Ricamora, Adriana Braganza, Amaya Braganza, LaMae Caparas, Hsin-Ping Chang, Andrew Cheng, Lynn Masako Cheng, Olivia Chun, Ali Ewoldt, Ethan Halford Holder, Cole Horibe, MaryAnn Hu, James Ignacio, Misa Iwama, Christie Kim, Kelvin Moon Loh, Sumie Maeda, Paul HeeSang Miller, Rommel Pierre O'Choa, Kristen Faith Oei, Autumn Ogawa, Diane Phelan, William Poon, Brian Rivera, Bennyroyce Royon, Lainie Sakakura, Ann Sanders, Ian Saraceni, Atsuhisa Shinomiya, Michiko Takemasa, Kei Tsuruharatani, Christopher Vo, Rocco Wu, XiaoChuan Xie.

•The Little Mermaid Hollywood Bowl with Darren Criss, Sara Barilles & Rebel Wilson

•The Music Man - 2003 Matthew Broderick (Professor Harold Hill), Kristin Chenoweth (Marian Paroo), Debra Monk (Mrs. Paroo), Cameron Monaghan (Winthrop Paroo), Clyde Alves (Tommy Djilas), Cameron Adams (Zaneeta Shinn), Megan Moniz (Amaryllis), Linda Kash (Alma), Victor Garber (Mayor Shinn), Molly Shannon (Mrs. Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn), David Aaron Baker (Marcellus Washburn), Patrick McKenna (Charlie Cowell)

•The Producers- Broadway 4 November 2001 Cast: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Roger Bart, Gary Beach, Brad Oscar, Cady Huffman

•The Sound of Music - Broadway Revival 2/20/98 Rebecca Luker, Michael Siberry, Patti Cohenour, Jan Maxwell, Fred Applegate, Patricia Conolly, Sara Zelle, Dashiell Eaves, Andrea Bowen, Ashley Rose Orr, Gina Ferrall, Ann Brown

•The Sound of Music- UK tour November 2011 Cast: Kirsty Malpass (Alt. Maria), Margaret Preece (Mother Abbess), Michael Praed (Captain von Trapp), Jacinta Mulcahy (Baroness Elsa), Martin Callaghan (Uncle Max), Claire Fishenden (Liesl), Jeremy Taylor (Rolf)

•Sound of Music- TV Broadcast 2013 Aired 5 December 2013 Cast: Carrie Underwood, Stephen Moyer, Audra McDonald, Laura Benanti, Christian Borle, Ariane Rinehart, Michael Campayno

•The Sound of Music- National Tour Cincinnati, Ohio October 4, 2016 Kerstin Anderson (Maria Rainer), Ben Davis (Captain Georg von Trapp), Melody Betts (Mother Abbess), Teri Hansen (Elsa Schrader), Merwin Foard (Max Detweiler), Paige Silvester (Leisl), Roy Gantz (Friedrich), Ashley Brooke (Louisa), Austin Levine (Kurt), Iris Davies (Brigitta), Kyla Davies (Marta), Anika Lore Hatch (Gretl), Darren Matthias (Franz), Donna Garner (Frau Schmidt), Austin Colby (Rolf Gruber), Carey Rebecca Brown (Sister Berthe), Julia Osborne (Sister Margaretta), Anna Mintzer (Sister Sophia), Robert Mammana (Herr Zeller), Christopher Carl (Admiral von Schreiber)

•The Sound of Music London 2006 I don’t know what cast or date

•The SpongeBob Musical (Chicago) − June 7, 2016: Ethan Slater (SpongeBob SquarePants), Danny Skinner (Patrick Star), Lilli Cooper (Sandi Cheeks), Gavin Lee (Squidward Tentacles), Nick Blaemire (Plankton), Carlos Lopez (Mr. Krabs), Gaelen Gilliland (Mayor), Emmy Raver-Lampman (Pearl Krabs).

•The Who’s Tommy OBC I don’t know what cast or date

•Titanic - Australia 2006 PROSHOT Hayden Tee, Brendan Higgins, Nick Tate, Tony Farrell, Todd Goddard, Tony Cogin, David Pearson, Matthew Willis, Alexander Lewis, James Shaw, Cameron Mannix, David Goddard, Keegan Joyce, Robert Gard, Joan Carden

•Title of Show- Broadway July 6 2008 Cast: Jeff Bowen, Hunter Bell, Heidi Blickenstaff, Susan Blackwell

•Tuck Everlasting- Broadway April 4, 2016 Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Jesse Tuck), Carolee Carmell (Mae Tuck), Michael Park (Angus Tuck), Terrence Mann (Man in the Yellow Suit), Fred Applegate (Constable Joe), Michael Wartella (Hugo), Valerie Wright (Mother), Pippa Pearthree (Nana), Sarah Charles Lewis (Winnie Foster)

•Urinetown- Broadway 20 October 2001 Cast: John Cullum (Caldwell B. Cladwell), Jennifer Laura Thompson (Hope Cladwell), David Beach (Mr. McQueen), Nancy Opel (Penelope Pennywise), Hunter Foster (Bobby Strong), Rachel Coloff (Soupy Sue/Cladwell’s Secretary)

•Waitress (A.R.T) − September 2, 2015: Jessie Mueller, Keala Settle, Jeanna De Waal, Drew Gehling, Joe Tippett, Dakin Matthews, Eric Anderson, Jeremy Morse, Giana Ribeiro.

•Waitress (Broadway) − June 14, 2016: Jessie Mueller (Jenna), Keala Settle (Becky), Kimiko Glenn (Dawn), Drew Gehling (Dr Pomatter), Nick Cordero (Earl), Dakin Matthews (Joe), Eric Anderson (Cal), Christopher Fitzgerald (Ogie)

•Waitress - April 4, 2017 ***NFT UNTIL AUGUST 1st*** Sara Bareilles, Charity Angel Dawson, Molly Jobe as (u/s) Dawn, Chris Diamantopoulos, Will Swenson, Dakin Matthews, Eric Anderson, Christopher Fitzgerald.

•War Paint - Chicago June 29, 2016 Patti LuPone (Helena Rubinstein), Christine Ebersole (Elizabeth Arden), John Dossett (Tommy Lewis), Douglas Sills (Harrry Fleming), Joanna Glushak, Chris Hoch, Barbara Marineau

•West Side Story- Broadway February 23 2009 Cast: Matt Cavenaugh, Josefina Scaglione, Karen Olivo, Cody Green, Geroge Akram, Curtis Holbrook, Joey Haro

•What’s Inside (Songs from Waitress):Concert by Sara Bareilles, 2015.

•Wicked- Broadway, 12 October 2003 Cast: Idina Menzel (Elphaba), Kristin Chenoweth (Glinda), Nobert Leo Butz (Fiyero)

•Wicked - July 18th 2004 - Cast:  Idina Menzel (Elphaba), Kristin Chenoweth (Glinda), Norbert Leo Butz (Fiyero), Sean McCourt (Wizard), Michelle Federer (Nessarose), Carole Shelley (Madame Morrible)

•Wicked- London 18 October 2007 Cast: Kerry Ellis, Dianne Pilkington, Oliver Tompsett, Nigel Planer, Susie Blake, Katie Rowley Jones, James Gillan, Andy Mac

•Wicked March ?? 2009 - Cast: Nicole Parker (Elphaba), Alli Mauzey (Glinda), Aaron Tveit (Fiyero),Jayne Houdyshell (Madame Morrible), Anthony Galde (Wizard u/s), Cristy Candler (Nessarose), Alex Brightman (Boq), Timothy Britten Parker (Dr. Dillamond)

•Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf -Chicago February 12th, 2011 Tracy Letts, Amy Morton, Carrie Coon, Madison Dirks

•You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown - Broadway 1999 Anthony Rapp (Charlie Brown), Ilana Levine (Lucy van Pelt), B. D. Wong(Linus van Pelt), Stanley Wayne Mathis (Schroeder), Kristin Chenoweth (Sally Brown), Roger Bart (Snoopy)

Not on the list but I have them: - War Paint Broadway -!Follies NTL - Matilda final performance - Gypsy - audio with Ethel Merman - The Prom off Broadway - Lion King OBC

[gone2soon-rip]

PETER SALLIS (1921-Died June 5th 2017,aged 96).British actor who was best known as the quiet and resourceful Norman ‘Cleggy’ Clegg’ for the entire run of the world’s longest running sitcom,Last of the Summer Wine,from it’s first episode in 1971 to it’s final episode in 2010,in which he was partner of a trio of friends getting up to mischief and slow burning hijinks in the quaint Yorkshire village where they lived.The longest running trio were Clegg, the comical,lazy Compo,played by Bill Owen,forever chasing after the stern,battleaxe Norah Batty (Kathy Staff),and ‘Foggy’ Dewhurst,(Brian Wilde) the meek former army officer who always came up with the trio’s hair brained schemes which often met with disaster.Sallis’ Clegg,often with Owen’s Compo,would also appear alongside other third man characters (Michael Bates as Cyril Blamire,Michael Aldridge as Seymour,and Frank Thornton as Truly).Besides Last of the Summer Wine,Sallis gained later fame for providing the voice of the amateur inventor and wensleydale cheese loving Wallace,alongside his smart dog Gromit,who was often the brains of thr pair,in the animated series and the films,Wallace & Gromit,and Wallace & Gromit:Curse of the Wererabbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sallis

[freethejazzblog]

Free The Jazz #44 [for Bertrand Russell]

1 - Trio 3 - Epic Man (from "Visiting Texture", 2017 Intakt)

2 - Joe McPhee / Paal Nilssen-Love - Ibsen's Ghost - (from "Tomorrow Came Today", 2008 Smalltown Superjazzz)

3 - William Parker Quartet - O'Neal's Porch (from "O'Neal's Porch", 2002 AUM Fidelity)

4 - Clifford Thornton - Pan African Festival (from "Ketchaoua", 1970 BYG)

5 - The Vandermark 5 - License Complete (for Julius Hemphill) (from "Acoustic Machine", 2001 Atavistic)

6 - Bill Dixon - Currents (edit) (from "Berlin Abbozzi", 2000 FMP)

7 - Wadada Leo Smith - America's Third Century Spiritual Awakening (from "Golden Quartet", 2000 Tzadik)

Listen to a new show each week on 8K, and find previous shows over at Mixcloud.

[somar78]

A Brief History of the Jaguar Mark II – The British Bank Robber’s Favourite Getaway Car

Project Utah – The Jaguar Mk I

The story of the Jaguar Mark II (also known as the Jaguar MK2) begins with Jaguar’s “Project Utah” which gave birth to the Jaguar 2.4 liter and 3.4 liter Mark I. These models then went on to father the Jaguar Mark II and then the Daimler 2.5 V8 which was, in my humble opinion at least, the cream of the crop even though it didn’t have a Jaguar name badge on it nor a pouncing cat leaping forward on its hood.

Work began on the new Jaguar “Project Utah” in May 1952 and it was to herald a number of firsts for the company, the most challenging was to be the decision to move from Jaguar’s old chassis and body construction to unitary construction. Unitary construction (unibody construction) was by the early 1950’s thought to be the future of passenger car construction and indeed that would turn out to be the case for volume production cars worldwide.

In order to create their new car Jaguar’s engineers Bill Thornton and Cyril Crouch worked with Britain’s Pressed Steel company to put the styling sketches done by Jaguar’s founder and boss Sir William Lyons into actual blueprints. The other member of the team was an engineer named Bob Knight who was specifically tasked with the job of dealing with the unibody’s inherent problems of noise, vibration and harshness (abbreviated as “NVH”).

Noise, vibration and harshness were a characteristic of a unibody construction that presented new technical challenges. The old fashioned methods of insulating a passenger car body from these problems with a chassis and separate body typically involved using rubber or other insulating materials in the attachment of the body to the chassis to dampen out unwanted vibrations and noise. These tried and familiar methods could not be used in a unibody and so other means had to be figured out. Bob Knight would go on to become one of the foremost experts in this field. The resulting body of the Jaguar Mark I was one of Sir William Lyons and his team’s great successes and was a tribute to the Jaguar sales motto of “Grace, Space, Pace”.

Jaguar was already manufacturing the XK120 sports car, and large luxury saloon the Mark VII, but management realized that their model range was comprised of expensive cars with big engines and that if there was an economic downturn that they would need to be producing a smaller and more economical model in order to survive.

This had been understood from Jaguar’s pre-war beginnings when they were called SS Cars. They had models using the Standard Motors Company engines of 1.5 liters capacity in their more affordable models in addition to the Standard Motors 2.5 liter and 3.5 liter engines installed in their more expensive offerings.

During the war years Sir William Lyons and his engineering team quietly got to work on the creation of a new engine to power the Jaguar cars of the post war era once the pesky Nazis had been defeated and Britain was once again restored to being the “Land of Hope and Glory” and lots of people would be able to buy a nice new and glorious Jaguar.

To this end the initial new engine design work focused on a DOHC, inline-6 cylinder engine of 3.4 liters capacity. This new engine was also able to be reduced in capacity by shortening its stroke to make it into a 2.4 liter engine. But what of a 1.5 liter? Jaguar’s engineers had also worked on cutting down the six cylinder to make it into a four cylinder of around 2.0 liters capacity, which would have given them a range of three engines whose capacities corresponded to the pre-war engine choices but which would have been far more advanced than the old Standard Motors units.

In the 1952 design and planning for the new Jaguar saloon both the 2.4 liter six cylinder and 2 liter (1,970cc) four cylinder engine options were worked on as alternatives for the production car. It would be the fact that the new car was going to weigh around 2,800lb that would prove to be the deciding factor in the decision to abandon the four cylinder engine. The four cylinder just had no hope of enabling the car to attain one of its design objectives: it had to be able to make 100 mph. As it turned out even the 2.4 liter six cylinder was borderline in achieving “the ton” in regular production cars.

The other factor in abandoning the four cylinder engine was that it was seen to be too “down-market” and therefore something that would cheapen the prestige of the Jaguar brand. An inline-4 cylinder engine does not have the sweet balance of a straight six and cannot offer the same sort of smoothness unless it is fitted with a balancing system such as that created by Frederick W. Lancaster back in 1904.

There was much tweaking by Jaguar’s engine boffins to get the 2.4 liter refined into the production version. The final six cylinder used a slightly shorter engine block than the 3.4 liter original engine and it had a bore of 83mm and stroke of 76.5mm to create an engine with a capacity of 2,483cc. This new engine version was to be fitted with twin Solex carburetors rather than Jaguar’s traditional preference for the products of Skinners Union (i.e. “SU”). This engine produced a healthy 112bhp @ 5,750rpm with torque of 140lb/ft at a leisurely 2,000rpm.

This sophisticated engine was mated to a British Moss four speed manual gearbox which, in stick-in-the-mud British style only had synchromesh on the top three gears but did provide the option of a Laycock de Normanville electric overdrive for quick and economical open road travel.

The front suspension was mounted on a separate sub-frame, one of the methods used to reduce the NVH in a unibody car, and was designed by William Heynes. It used double wishbones and coil springs with telescopic shock absorbers and an anti-roll bar at the front. For the rear a simplified version of that used on the Jaguar D-Type sports car was used with the live axle being supported by inverted semi-elliptic leaf springs which were cantilevered into the rear of the unibody in rubber insulated bushes.

These springs served the role of trailing arms and then lateral support for the live axle was provided using a Panhard Rod. The inverted leaf springs served to transfer the load of the live axle forward into the unibody shell. The Salisbury live rear axle gave the Mark I car a narrower rear track than the front and this was in all probability only done because it was the only suitable off-the-shelf Salisbury axle that was a close enough fit.

The brakes of the Jaguar Mark I were Girling drums all around of 11.125″ (283mm) diameter. At the end of 1957 the then new disc brakes on all four wheels would be offered as an option.

The interior of the Jaguar Mark I was a sumptuous blending of walnut veneer and leather, complimented by a carpeted floor. The interior of a car can make or break a sale and Sir William Lyons was very adept at giving his cars an aura of luxurious quality. The dashboard of the Mark I was laid out to make adaptation between right and left hand drive car production as easy as possible but it was, and still is, one of the most ergonomic designs created in the period.

The Jaguar 2.4 liter Mark 1 made its public debut at the London Earls Court Motor Show of October 1955 and was offered in either standard or “Special Equipment” versions. The standard did not have a heater/demister or tachometer and for a rather modest £29 extra one got not only the tachometer and heater/demister but also twin fog lamps, a cigar lighter (which back then was used for lighting cigars and cigarettes and not for charging your iPhone), windscreen washers, courtesy switches for interior lights, and a folding center armrest for back seat passengers. In short you got a lot extra for your additional £29.

Production of the 2.4 liter Jaguar Mark I got going in earnest in 1956 with 8,029 cars produced that year. Given that the 2.4 liter Mark 1 was borderline as to whether or not it could do 100mph Jaguar were careful to ensure that any car sent to the motoring press for review was specially selected and prepared so it would. The car loaned to Britain’s “Motor” magazine was a Special Equipment model fitted with the Laycock de Normanville electric overdrive and on test it delivered a standing to 60mph time of 14.4 seconds and a top speed of 101.5mph. Fuel economy was 24.4 miles to the Imperial gallon.

For 1956 Jaguar offered three optional tuning kits for the 2.4 liter Mark 1 which provided power outputs of 119bhp, 131bhp, and 150bhp. This was to be an interim measure however as Jaguar already intended to install the full size 3.4 liter engine in the car. It would appear that the decision to do this had not been made when the design for the 2.4 liter Mark I was finalized and so some significant modifications had to be made to shoehorn the longer 3.4 liter engine with its bigger cooling system into the car: among the changes required was a larger grill to draw in cooling air for the larger radiator and also modification of the front wings.

The 3.4 liter version of the car went on sale in February 1957 with the new engine fitted with twin SU carburetors delivering 210bhp @ 5,500rpm with torque of 216lb/ft @ 3,000rpm. It was initially only fitted with drum brakes like its smaller engined sibling but negative reviews prompted the factory to fit disc brakes as standard equipment in January 1959 where previously they had been an optional extra. A manual transmission car with electric overdrive loaned to Britain’s “Autocar” magazine delivered a standing to 60mph time of 9.1 seconds and a top speed of 120mph.

The Mark 1 Jaguar was taken out of production in June 1959 to make way for its improved replacement, the Mark 2.

The Jaguar Mark 2 – The Gentleman’s Express

The Jaguar Mark II was an upgrading of the Mark I and went into production later in 1959. The relatively narrow rear track that had been subject to criticism despite the fact that it did not significantly affect the car’s handling was widened with the fitting of a new live axle.

The front and rear suspension designs remained unchanged other than the necessary changes to the geometry required. Four wheel disc brakes were fitted as standard equipment and a new addition was the provision of a limited slip differential for the 3.8 liter engine model. Options included the Laycock de Normanville electric overdrive for manual cars, automatic transmission and power steering.

Above the car’s waistline the changes were subtle but significant. Sir William Lyons and his team increased the glass area by 18% through widening of the windscreen and dramatically enlarging the rear window. Similarly the side windows were enlarged with the rear quarter windows forming the Jaguar “D” shape that would become a familiar feature on other Jaguar cars.

The interior of the car kept true to the design of the original Mark I but was upgraded, retaining the overwhelming impression of being surrounded by walnut wood veneer while being ensconced in sumptuous leather. If you weren’t completely captivated by the outside appearance of the car you were pretty much guaranteed to fall in love with the interior, I know I did, and just to make everyone’s joy complete the heater was ducted through to the rear of the passenger compartment to provide luxurious comfort for all.

The Jaguar Mark II was made with three engine options, the 2.4 liter and 3.4 liter carried over from the Mark I and a new 3.8 liter. The 2.4 liter (2,483cc/152 cu. in.) version with twin Solex carburetors delivered 120bhp, the 3.4 liter (2,483cc/152 cu. in.) with twin SU HD6 carburetors provided 210bhp, while the 3.8 liter (3,781cc/231 cu. in.) also fitted with twin SU HD6 carburetors put 220bhp beneath the driver’s right foot. The Jaguar Mark II shared its 3.4 liter 210bhp engine with the 3.4 liter Jaguar XK150 SE and its 3.8 liter 220bhp engine with the 3.8 liter XK150 SE.

The Jaguar Mark II remained in production until September 1967 when the 3.8 liter version was phased out and the 2.4 liter and 3.4 liter models were re-badged the Jaguar 240 and 340. The 240 and 340 were run-out models intended to use up the remaining inventory of Mark II parts and to fill the gap while the world anxiously awaited the new Jaguar XJ6, which would make its debut in September 1968.

The Jaguar 240 and 340 were downgraded in terms of quality and fittings. The upholstery was changed to Ambla imitation leather while the fog lamps were replaced with vents, with fog lamps being an optional extra for the British market. Production of the Jaguar 240 and 340 ended in 1969.

Edward Turner’s All British V8 and the Daimler 250

British engineer and executive Edward Turner worked at Triumph and he had been responsible for such famous engines as the Ariel Square Four, and the Triumph parallel twin. Triumph was owned by the Birmingham Small Arms company nowadays better known for the BSA motorcycles it produced rather than for the Martini-Henry rifles they produced during the Victorian Era, and the brilliant sporting rifles they made during the 1950’s and 1960’s.

BSA owned the Daimler car company, Daimler having been a preferred car for Britain’s Royal Family for decades making it a prestige name, historically on a par with Rolls Royce. In 1956 Edward Turner was appointed as Managing Director and was asked to create a V8 engine to power a new range of Daimler luxury cars. Turner, his design engineer Jack Wickes, and Dr. J. N. H. Tait (who had previously worked with Donald Healey) started out examining the parts list for a Cadillac V8 and worked on incorporating design elements from the cylinder heads Turner had created for Triumph motorcycles which incorporated hemispherical combustion chambers.

The final design was for V8 engines in two capacities but with very similar dimensions and weight. The smaller being a 2.5 liter (2,548cc/155 cu. in.) producing 140bhp @ 5,800rpm with torque of 150lb/ft @ 3,600rpm intended for medium size cars or perhaps a sports car, and the larger a 4.5 liter (4,561cc/278 cu. in.) producing 220bhp @ 5,500rpm with torque of 283lb/ft @ 3,200rpm for large cars and limousines fit for a king or queen to ride in. These engines were 90° V8’s with two valves per cylinder actuated by push-rods from a chain driven camshaft located centrally high in the “V” of the engine.

The cylinder block was made of cast chrome-iron while the cylinder heads were of high tensile sand cast aluminum alloy. Pistons were of aluminum alloy while the connecting rods were of steel. The crankshaft was supported by five main bearings and the engine breathed through twin semi-downdraft SU carburetors.

These engines were put into production by Daimler with the 2.5 liter being fitted into their Daimler 250 sports car while the 4.5 liter was used in Daimler Major Majestic luxury saloons.

On 26th May 1960 Jaguar bought Daimler Cars from BSA not because they wanted to incorporate Daimler cars into the Jaguar product line, but because they wanted to use the substantial Daimler factory works to expand their capacity to make more Jaguars. Thus it was that Jaguar acquired what is arguably the greatest British V8 engine ever created, with all its potential attractiveness to American car customers who were and still are V8 engine aficionados.

Jaguar wanted to make Jaguars, but Daimler dealers wanted to sell Daimlers. A compromise was arrived at in which a Daimler, fitted with the Daimler 2.5 liter V8 engine, would be created using the Jaguar Mark II. Daimler were not given much to work with: there was an abandoned Jaguar Mark I sitting unused which was given to the Daimler boffins to see if they could squeeze a Daimler 2.5 liter V8 into it. They succeeded, and the resulting car was so good it was decided to build a Daimler badged “Jaguar” Mark II with the Edward Turner V8 in it.

The car was christened the Daimler 2.5 V8 and produced from 1962-1967, and it would later go on to be renamed the Daimler 250 produced from 1967-1969. The Edward Turner V8 was shorter than the inline six cylinder Jaguar XK engine which gave the Daimler a better front to rear weight distribution and consequently better handling. It was first offered with an automatic transmission but received the option of a manual with electric overdrive in February 1967 shortly after production had started. Many consider this to be the ultimate “Jaguar” Mark II, a sentiment I happen to agree with. I can’t help but wonder what a “Jaguar” XJ6 fitted with the option of either the 2.5 liter or 4.5 liter Daimler V8’s would have been like. Its the sort of project Britain’s custom workshop Vicarage would do a marvelous job on.

The “Bank Robbers’ Car”

There can be no doubt that Sir William Lyons did not intend to create a motor car that would become the getaway car of choice for Britain’s underworld crime gangs, but it did. It was similar to what happened in Germany when the BMW “Neue Klasse” cars proved to be so quick that the communist terrorist group the “Baader-Meinhoff” gang tended to choose them over most other cars to the extent that the letters “BMW” came to be facetiously said to stand for “Baader-Meinhoff Wagen”.

The British did not tend towards communist terrorism back in the 1960’s but bank robbery was considered to be a viable business project for some in the criminal underworld and the Jaguar Mark I and Mark II saloons were found to be pretty much perfect for bank robberies because you could get a few gang members with illegally acquired guns and masks in the passenger compartment and there was room in the boot for a satisfying quantity of crisp freshly acquired bank notes or gold bullion. Not only that but the stolen Jag was near guaranteed to be much faster than the typical Wolseley police cars of the day. Thus it was that the Jaguar Mark I and Mark II were so adept at providing “Grace, space and pace” that they also became known as “Bank robbers’ cars”.

Conclusion

The Jaguar Mark II and its predecessor the Mark I were the first of the unibody “modern” Jaguar cars and they became the car that most people in the 1950’s and 1960’s would have recognized as a “Jag”. They pioneered the way for Jaguar’s ultimate replacement for them, the graceful Jaguar XJ6. The Jaguar Marks I and II were much different to the XJ6 however in that they looked like luxury sports cars with four doors and performed like sports cars: a feature that made them popular with car enthusiasts and bank robbers alike.

These are cars that enthusiasts and collectors are often willing to spend significant amounts of money doing a full restoration on and there are companies such as Vicarage who specialize in doing such restoration work to produce a car that is without doubt far better than it originally was when it emerged from Jaguar’s factory.

As for me I think the Daimler 2.5 liter was the cream of the crop and no doubt there is room for much enjoyable debate on the merits of which version of the Mark II was the greatest. I have a penchant for V8’s: how about you?

Picture Credits: Jaguar.

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[miguelmarias]

The Rising of the Moon

The Rising of the Moon is a modest-looking black-and-white Irish production lasting under 80 minutes, entirely shot on location with actors recruited mainly from the Abbey Theatre. It was the first venture of Four Provinces Productions, created by Lord Killanin, Ford, Roger Greene, Brian Desmond Hurst and Michael Scott to promote a national cinema in Eire. As Ford got no salary - he made it for fun and had a good time - it cost the ridiculous amount of US $256,000, when cheap Benedict Bogeaus productions of the time (including several Allan Dwan masterpieces) had budgets of a up to a million dollars. In spite of which, The Rising of the Moon grossed worldwide (although it was not released in most countries) less than US $100,000 and therefore drew a loss of a quarter million. Not even the Irish appreciated it: it was forbidden in Northern Ireland, and even though its last episode recounts the successful evasion - with the general complicity of most people - of an activist who has been sentenced to death, IRA supporters resented Ford's daring to show a British officer ashamed of being reduced to a hangman. Though most sources date it in 1957 (the year it was released, on May 16 in Dublin, the next month in Britain, not until August in the U.S.), or even in 1958, The Rising of the Moon was filmed in Spring 1956 and fully completed (and copyrighted) inside the year, between The Searchers and  The Wings of Eagles(both also finished in 1956). It is certainly, of the three, the lesser film, if that is the right adjective for such a personal piece. A rarely seen movie even now, seldom mentioned and never properly appreciated, and certainly obscured by the two films it comes between in Ford's filmography (one of them the work that has become Ford's greatest film for almost everybody, the other my own favorite amongst his movies), The Rising of the Moonshould nevertheless not be missed.

The Rising of the Moon is, to be sure, a small picture, devoid of great complexities or transcendent meanings, even if it may be one of the most personal films Ford ever made, one of those that most fully and precisely reflect their author's intent. And limits, when visible, are revealing: this is what John Ford could have attained, had he been an Irish filmmaker. He would have been confined to a very simple cinema, probably restricted to local subject matters, more or less realistic in approach and humorous in tone, but unable to reach the mythical, epic and historical dimensions, the rich complexity of the two American masterpieces he made that same year.

Confronted with such dramatic peaks, The Rising of the Moon is rather a quiet Irish valley, its height barely that of a small hillside. Which makes it no less pleasant to watch nor less deeply felt by its author. Besides those two long-winding rivers, the Western a metaphoric tragedy, its more contemporary counterpart the biography of a close friend,  screenwriter Frank "Spig" Wead, The Rising of the Moon has the concision and modesty of a short story or a sketch, multiplied by three. Because The Rising of the Moon tells three independent stories and is rather a collection of three shorts than a true feature. All were adapted by Ford's favorite screenwriter, the unsung Frank S. Nugent, from tales very different in origin and flavor. The first, The Majesty of the Law, is a melancholy and humorous anecdote by Frank O'Connor; the second, A Minute's Wait, springs from a Martin J. McHugh comedy, although it seems a blow-up to twenty-three minutes of the beginning of Ford's most famous Irish movie, The Quiet Man (1952), when Sean Thornton (John Wayne) gets down off the train and asks the way to Innisfree. The third is an updating to the Black and Tan War of Lady Gregory's dramatic piece, The Rising of the Moon (also the name of a well-known folk song), here retitled 1921. All of them are presented, and provided with brief off-screen commentary, by Tyrone Power, enlisted on account of his Irish roots.

Much as I like it, and despite great moments, 1921 is the least convincing of the three. The blame lies with a very artificial stylistic choice of Ford's that I fail to understand and that amazes me - I keep forgetting about it - every time I see the film; it annoys me till I succeed in not paying attention and Ford drops it, only to indulge again in such an un-Fordian device as systematically tilting the camera: a quirk I cannot but see as some sort of self-parody of the celebrated "expressionism" that ages today his otherwise impressive 1935 The Informer. Not even Peter Bogdanovich dared to ask him, but his book-length interview never dwelt on The Rising of the Moon, and the few who have commented on the film - so vaguely that I suspect they might have never seen it - didn't notice such an anomaly (neither Tag Gallagher nor Joseph McBride did), which one could expect from earlier Orson Welles or Carol Reed (not only in The Third Man [1949]) but is quite shocking and unlikely coming from late John Ford.

The second story is probably the most Fordian, this being its only drawback: it might seem a bit repetitious in comparison with the three or four minutes which, in a lighter and less extravagant fashion, illustrate the same topic - the Homeric unpunctuality of the old Irish railways - in The Quiet Man. There is an incredible number of characters - around twenty, each with his or her own individual traits drawn with affectionate humor, often paired in miniature vignettes linked with astonishing ease and subtlety, quite at odds with the interruption the whole episode represents, and in what may be the utmost expression of Ford's notorious penchant for digression. The actors are as enjoyable as the dialogue and the comedic construction, freed of any theatricality. It has the most hilarious line in the film - old Jimmy O'Dea's oblique proposal to the bespectacled barmaid in the station: "How would you like to be buried with my people?"

The first story is the most mysteriously naked, perhaps the most deeply Irish, slower in rhythm and with no action at all. Instead, it offers an inextricable mixture of dignity and longing, melancholia and good-humour, respect and bitterness, and is prodigiously acted by Cyril Cusack as the reluctant police inspector Michael Dillon, Noel Purcell as the old proud rebel moonshiner Dan O'Flaherty and Jack MacGowran in a ferret-like role, Mickey J., that recalls the one he played in The Quiet Man. Although less brilliant, it may be the purest and most serene segment of The Rising of the Moon, which Tyrone Power as the narrator introduces in quite a conscious, reflective and revealing way: "This is a story about nothing, or perhaps about everything," before showing us minutely how a very unhappy policeman walks to a nearby hamlet with a tower which is a national monument, crosses a small river in a rowboat, and calls upon the old illegal distiller, and both of them, and soon Mickey J. as well, drink while they nostalgically comment on how the old secrets, the old songs, the old art of making whiskey are being lost in a modern lifestyle (which includes radio and movies) which doesn't have the time required for the craft. It soon appears that the old moonshiner would rather go to jail than pay the fine that's been imposed on him for injuring with his cane another old man who had called him a liar. He's too proud to accept the money his old friends (and even the victim) are ready to give him, and which he does not really need (he has savings enough for that), and he feels he did what he had to, that he was justified, and is not guilty, so he will rather give himself in. "When it suits you," the policeman insists. They finally agree on Friday, and so we see old Dan leave his home on Friday morning and walk down to the jail, where Dillon is waiting to receive him.

 Miguel Marías © FIPRESCI 2009

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NCLT admits insolvency plea in opposition to Jet Airways, posts matter for subsequent listening to on 5 July; RP directed to complete course of in three months

http://tinyurl.com/yy4qxp2f The chapter court docket, Nationwide Firm Legislation Tribunal (NCLT), on Thursday, determined to confess an insolvency petition in opposition to Jet Airways Ltd filed by its collectors in an try to salvage a few of their possession. The insolvency course of will enable lenders led by State Financial institution of India to promote the corporate as an entire or promote its property and convey to finish weeks of uncertainty over the airline’s future. Additionally, illustration by firm concerned in Insolvency proceedings in Netherlands, has been rejected. Decision skilled is directed to complete the method in Three months. Subsequent itemizing of the matter is on fifth July for the submitting of the method updates. https://t.co/EGWDeNbGBI — ANI (@ANI) June 20, 2019 NCLT has listed the matter on 5 July for the subsequent listening to. The tribunal declared a moratorium on the restoration of dues from Jet Airways. The pilots and engineers unions of Jet Airways and two Dutch logistics distributors to the grounded airline on Wednesday moved the NCLT looking for them to be made events to the chapter hearings. The consortium of 26 bankers led by State Financial institution had filed for chapter Tuesday on the Mumbai bench of the NCLT, looking for to get better over Rs 8,500 crore of their funds from the airline that was formally grounded on 17 April. Whereas the pilots and engineers unions needed to be made occasion to the case, the representatives of two Dutch companies needed the tribunal’s nod to make an intervention petition. It may be famous that two logistics distributors of Jet within the Netherlands had confiscated a passenger jet on the Amsterdam airport late March looking for dues and an area court docket had in Might ordered chapter course of in opposition to the grounded airline and had appointed Rocco Mulder because the administrator for the chapter proceedings. Consultant picture. Reuters Jet Airways owes over Rs 3,000 crore to its 23,000 workers who haven’t been paid since March and a few of them like engineers and pilots had been getting half salaries since final December. The corporate additionally owes over Rs 10,000 crore to plane distributors/lessors. The lenders reportedly picked Ashish Chhawchharia of Grant Thornton India because the decision skilled (RP) for the airline’s chapter proceedings. Legislation agency Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas is the authorized advisor to the SBI-led consortium for the Insolvency and Chapter Code (IBC) proceedings. In the meantime, shares of Jet Airways witnessed an unprecedented rally on the bourses Thursday, bouncing again sharply after days of large fall to shut the day over 122 p.c greater. After a extremely unstable buying and selling day, the scrip skyrocketed 93.35 p.c to shut at Rs 64 on the BSE, helped by strong fag finish shopping for. In the course of the day, it zoomed 133.68 per cent to Rs 77.35. Earlier within the day, shares of the corporate had touched its all-time low of Rs 27, down 18.42 p.c. On the NSE, shares rose by 122.20 p.c to shut at Rs 73.55. In intra-day commerce, it touched a excessive of Rs 82.75 and an all-time low of Rs 26.55. With company inputs Your information to the most recent cricket World Cup tales, evaluation, reviews, opinions, dwell updates and scores on https://www.firstpost.com/firstcricket/series/icc-cricket-world-cup-2019.html. Observe us on Twitter and Instagram or like our Facebook web page for updates all through the continued occasion in England and Wales. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function() {n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)} ; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script', 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq('init', '259288058299626'); fbq('track', 'PageView'); (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "http://connect.facebook.net/en_GB/all.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.9&appId=1117108234997285"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); window.fbAsyncInit = function () { FB.init({appId: '1117108234997285', version: 2.4, xfbml: true}); // *** here is my code *** if (typeof facebookInit == 'function') { facebookInit(); } }; (function () { var e = document.createElement('script'); e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js'; e.async = true; document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e); }()); function facebookInit() { console.log('Found FB: Loading comments.'); FB.XFBML.parse(); } Source link