Coming Soon - The Canterville Ghost

[JulieH]

Julie Hoverson's original one and only adaptation of the classic

The Canterville Ghost
by Oscar Wilde

In which an ancient ancestral horror runs afoul of that most modern of horrors (modern in 1887, at any rate) - the newly wealthy American!

Such frightful deeds are wrought! Such terrors are let loose in the castle as have never been let loose previously!

How can you miss such a Victorian melodrama?

[Gwendolyn Jensen-Woodard]

YES, more Oscar Wilde!!!!

It really shouldn't be missed!

[JulieH]

A little anecdote about this episode.

This was actually one of the earliest episodes I recorded and mastered, and then set aside "in case of emergency" (I always like to have an episode or two up my sleeve to slip in if something goes awry with the scheduled episode).

When I was casting this, I didn't have half the actor pool I do now, so while I knew precisely who I wanted for Sir Simon (Cole Hornaday, one of my show's mainstays - fabulous actor), I had no one in mind for the "non-dead" roles.

So I went to Beverly, another one of my mainstay actors, and said "Here's a script, cast me all the living people out of your high school drama class." Having seen the last few productions they'd done, I knew she and her friends had a pretty high level of talent among them, and I trust Beverly's judgment.

One of her first questions (after chortling and shrieking "Ahh! The power!!!") was "is there an overwrought British male character?" and after getting my confirmation that the young Duke fit that, she grinned evilly and said "I know just who that will be..."

And so it went.

Since this episode, a number of these actors have reappeared in other productions, most notably, perhaps, Beverly and Lyndsey in Lonely at the Top, but also Michael in The Thrice Tolled Bell, and Ellen and Megan in Hallows Eve, among many smaller appearances.

And who says kids these days don't have anything to do?

[Bill Hollweg]

	Quote:	Serendipity
	A little anecdote about this episode. This was actually one of the earliest episodes I recorded and mastered, and then set aside "in case of emergency" (I always like to have an episode or two up my sleeve to slip in if something goes awry with the scheduled episode). When I was casting this, I didn't have half the actor pool I do now, so while I knew precisely who I wanted for Sir Simon (Cole Hornaday, one of my show's mainstays - fabulous actor), I had no one in mind for the "non-dead" roles. So I went to Beverly, another one of my mainstay actors, and said "Here's a script, cast me all the living people out of your high school drama class." Having seen the last few productions they'd done, I knew she and her friends had a pretty high level of talent among them, and I trust Beverly's judgment. One of her first questions (after chortling and shrieking "Ahh! The power!!!") was "is there an overwrought British male character?" and after getting my confirmation that the young Duke fit that, she grinned evilly and said "I know just who that will be..." And so it went. Since this episode, a number of these actors have reappeared in other productions, most notably, perhaps, Beverly and Lyndsey in Lonely at the Top, but also Michael in The Thrice Tolled Bell, and Ellen and Megan in Hallows Eve, among many smaller appearances. And who says kids these days don't have anything to do?

And might I say that this is BRILLIANT! Course I always think 19 RULZ!
;-)