Ahem. Jerry Richardson and the Carolina Panthers would like a word with you…
Taylor wrote his 1968 song “Carolina in my Mind” while in England recording for the Beatles’ label Apple Records, and the song’s lyrics reflect his homesickness at the time.
The 1922 Gus Kahn / Walter Donaldson song “(Nothing Could Be Finer Than to Be in) Carolina in the Morning” debuted on Broadway in the elaborate (and risqué) musical revue The Passing Show of 1922 at the Winter Garden Theater by William Frawley, who later sang it in Paramount Pictures’ original version of “The Lemon Drop Kid” in 1934, on an episode of “I Love Lucy”, and in the season 3 episode Evening with a Star of “My Three Sons”, where it generated moderate attention.
The Winter Garden Theatre’s longest tenant was Cats, which opened on October 7, 1982 and ran 7,485 performances spanning nearly eighteen years. The auditorium was gutted to accommodate the show’s junkyard setting, and, after the show’s closing, architect Francesca Russo supervised its restoration, returning it to its 192’0s appearance.
“The Winter Soldier” was a phrase coined by John Kerry and other Vietnam War vets expressing their opposition to the war. It is a play on Thomas Paine’s reference to the “summer soldier[s]” who abandoned Gen. George Washington’s bedraggled, poorly-supplied Continental Army at Valley Forge during some of the darkest days of the American Revolution. It later was used to describe a Marvel Comics supervillain, the title for an unrelated play by Daniel Lewis James, and a later novel by Daniel Mason.
In William Shakespeare poem Winter from Love’s Labour Lost, the phrae “While greasy Joan doth keel the pot” keel has many meanings, one of which is a brewer’s cooling vat.
The German is kiihlen, Old English celan.
Joan is pouring in cold water to cool off the pot to avoid a boil over.
Joan of Arc was 19 years old when she was executed by the English in 1431. The means of execution was being burned at the stake. Her body was then burned a second and third time, to reduce it to ashes and completely destroy all possible relics. Her remains were thrown into the Seine River.
French playwright Jean Anouilh retells Joan of Arc’s story in his 1952 play L’Alouette (The Lark). However, the play ends on a joyful, triumphant note. The judge, Cauchon, realizes (as Joan is burning at the stake) that in the hurry to condemn her, they have not allowed her to re-live the coronation of Charles VII of France. The fire is extinguished, and Joan is given a reprieve.
In the 1955 Broadway production of the play, Joan was played by Julie Harris (for which she won her first Tony award) and Cauchon was played by Boris Karloff.
Oops, missed the edit window; Julie Harris won her second Tony in 1955, not her 1st.
Unabashed plug: The new play Hillary and Clinton, starring two time Tony winner Laurie Metcalf as Hillary and two time Tony winner John Lithgow as Clinton, got a good review in The New York Times
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte was Mark Twain’s last completed novel, published in 1896.
William Shakespeare’s younger sister was named Joan, which led Brian Bedford to speculate in his one man play, The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet, that the line “while greasy Joan doth keel the pot” was an example of Shakespeare putting a family joke into Love’s Labours Lost.
An early working title of Monty Python’s Flying Circus’s religious satire The Life of Brian was Jesus Christ: Lust for Glory. Even with the tamer title, the movie was very controversial at the time of its opening.
There are several differing, and somewhat confusing, accounts of the origin of the Monty Python name. The original members, however, agree that its only “significance” was that they thought it sounded funny.
Spamilton: An American Parody is a musical parody of the Broadway show Hamilton. Written by Gerard Alessandrini, creator of the parody revue Forbidden Broadway, Spamilton also parodies several other musicals, included Gypsy, Chicago, The King and I, Assassins, Camelot, The Book of Mormon and Sweeney Todd, and personalities, like Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, Barbra Streisand, Bernadette Peters, Carol Channing and Liza Minnelli.
The show, directed by Alessandrini, had its first preview on July 19, 2016 and opened on September 8, 2016 at New York’s Triad Theatre. Originally scheduled to run 18 performances, it was extended at the Triad until May 28, 2017. It moved on June 2, 2017 to the 47th Street Theatre, near the Richard Rodgers Theatre where Hamilton is presented.
Alexander Hamilton is (still, and likely for the foreseeable future) pictured on the US $10 bill. Hamilton, like Ben Franklin, was a Framer who never served as President but was nevertheless honored with a place on US currency due to his importance in the early history of the republic.
Hamilton, Ontario, the 10th largest city in Canada, was named for its founder, George Hamilton (1788–1836), a Canadian merchant and politician. Wikipedia’s disambiguation page lists over 20 individuals named George Hamilton; the best-known of them today is probably the actor who was born in 1939.
George, Washington is the only American place name which jokingly refers to a former President of the United States.
There are five mountains named Mount Washington in the United States. They are located in New Hampshire, Nevada, Oregon, and two in the state of Washington.
The Gorge Amphitheater is located in George, Washington near the Columbia River Gorge. I guess you could call it George’s Gorge.