Overture & Jets Song

West Side Story

DK

Bernstein’s classic retelling of Romeo & Juliet, set in New York City. Premiered 1957. This CBS recording is from 1973.

Nurse’s speech

Her Infinite Variety: Irene Worth as The Women of Shakespeare

Irene Worth; music by Arif Mardin. 1993 Sony Music Entertainment recording

Funny story from Romeo & Juliet

The Beginning of the Partnership

Shakespeare in Love (OS)

Composed and orchestrated by Stephen Warbeck; 1998

Instrumental from the fabulous movie, which won Best Picture and Best Original Score (Musical or Comedic) Oscars, among others.

Live interview with B. Weller and Rachel Jackson, actors in St. Louis Shakespeare Company’s touring shows: The 45-minute Macbeth and The 45-minute Twelfth Night. Also announced summer season shows and audition dates; plugged Magic Smoking Monkey’s upcoming production of Planet of the Apes: Live!

I’ve Come to Wive it Wealthily in Padua

Kiss Me Kate (OS)

Howard Keel

1953 MGM movie from 1948 Broadway musical based on The Taming of the Shrew; written by Cole Porter, who thought Shakespeare was too highbrow for Broadway . . .

Petrucio & Kate "meet cute"

All The World’s A Stage: An Anthology of Shakespearian Speeches Performed by the World’s Leading Actors (copyright 1995 BBC)

Bob Peck and Cheryl Campbell

Actual text of their first encounter, from The Taming of the Shrew

St. Crispin’s Day — Battle of Agincourt

Henry V (OS)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Simon Rattle. Composed by Patrick Doyle.

Glorious instrumental from Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 film.

Oberon’s speech ("My gentle Puck, come hither")

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I

Chuck Lavazzi

For anyone suffering withdrawal at not hearing Chuck’s voice live this week

"What must the King do?" speech

All The World’s A Stage: An Anthology of Shakespearian Speeches Performed by the World’s Leading Actors (copyright 1995 BBC)

Derek Jacobi

From Richard II (to be performed by SLSC this summer). Talked a bit during live interview about how Derek Jacobi played Hamlet in the BBC Shakespeare series (with Patrick Stewart as Claudius), and subsequently played Claudius to Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet in Branagh’s 1996 movie version.

"Now is the winter of our discontent" speech

Caedmon Audio tape recording of King Richard III; a Shakespeare Recording Society Production (copyright 1967, 1996 HarperCollins Publishers)

Robert Stephens. The cast on this recording includes Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Cyril Cusak, Ian Holm, Jeremy Brett, Glenda Jackson, Nigel Davenport, Michael York, and Julian Glover

From Richard III. This is the speech where Richard lets the audience in on what the court’s like these days, and his plans to screw it all up

A New World

Shakespeare in Love (OS)

Composed and orchestrated by Stephen Warbeck; 1998

Another Instrumental from this terrific soundtrack.