November
14, 2016
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
Red Flag Alert has been issued and all
outside burning. There is even a red
flag on the flag pole in front of the Fire Station. Saturday there was a haze over our town that
was from smoke from fires in North Carolina and Georgia.
Leonard Bell was on the town square with
plenty of fall produce. Drop by and
check his produce out. He will have collards, mustard greens,
turnips, kale, rutabagas, tomatoes sweet potatoes, shelled pinto and black
beans. We are getting ready for Thanksgiving.
Did you notice
all the flags on the light posts on Main Street in honor of Veteran’s Day? They had been purchased by the Ridge Spring
Harvest Festival and are used each year.
The Harvest
Festival Committee met at Ann Marie Taylor’s home Tuesday and all were pleased with
the renewal of the Harvest Festival.
There was a profit from the Festival, too. Ways to improve the festival and things to
keep were discussed. Ann Marie Taylor
and Patrick Arnold will head it up again next year. Volunteers are always needed. Please join the committee and help support
our town.FYI Ann Marie Taylor took over Bingo and did a marvelous job. I personally thank her!!!!!
The Helpful Hands Ministry is having a Church Yard Sale Saturday November 19 at the Helpful Hands Life Center, 109
Pecan Grove Rd., Ridge spring beginning at 8:00 AM until…
Joanne Crouch, Art Assoc. of Ridge Spring:
Bring a snack and a beverage of your choice. On November 15th, Chandler
Primeaux is offering a popular painting which incorporates the outline of South
Carolina in the word L-O-V-E. Cost is $30. The hours will also be 6:30-8:30 PM. For more info, call 864-941-0022 or
Joanne Crouch (803)685-5577 or Joanne.crouch26@gmail.com. Information
also available on the Art Association of Ridge Spring's Facebook page You may also make contact by email Chandler.Primeaux@gmail.com
Chef
Brandon Velie
of Juniper Restaurant will be having a cooking class this Thursday night November
17. The theme will be leftovers since
Thanksgiving leftovers are just around the corner. Juniper Restaurant will be
closed from November 22 through November 25 for Thanksgiving. Another great
night spent with some of the best chefs in the #CSRA , cooking
for Helping Hands, Inc. Presents "A Chef's Extravaganza" This was
our 13th year participating in this amazing event! All of these chefs did an
incredible job feeding 200 guests! Manuels BreadCafe Old Edgefield GrillAlloro Woodside Plantation Country Club Malia's Restaurant Plum Pudding
Friends
of Ridge
Spring will meet November 17 at 5:00
at the Ridge Spring Library. All are
welcome.
Martin Enterprise sponsored a Veteran Day Celebration at Mount Alpha Baptist in Ward, South Carolina on Sunday, November
13.There were eight veterans at the luncheon out off 24. At the present time we
have Angela Scott, U.S. Army, serving in Afghanistan, Ratrice Wright, Army,
serving in Germany, Dallas Davis attending Coastal Carolina and serving in the
National Guard, and Sergeant first Class Calvin Felder was in Army but now in
the National Guard. Thank Mrs. Vera Hammond for her help with decoration and
pictures and Girl Scout Troop 2081 for their help with serving. They were
Markayla Abney, Jorden Dicks, Chloe Hammond and Aniya Felder.
Rene Miller, RSM Elementary
RSM
students participated in our own election to choose our favorite author. The Campaign managers for our nominees gave a
brief speech to our student body about their author Our campaign managers were: Aaron Aimar,
Ariyanna Johnson, Matalyn Martin, Mary Ann Sterling, Taylor Long, and Kaytlin
Tindal. Each grade came to the voting booths to cast their vote for their
favorite author. After voting, each
student got t heir own “I voted” sticker.
The Author winner for Kindergarten to second grade was Dr. Seuss and third
to fifth winner was Jeff Kinney.
American
Education Week: Once again, we would like to invite you to visit your child’s
classroom and join him/her for lunch in recognition of American Education Week
during November 14-18. This week is a
time when we celebrate public education and honor individuals who are making a
difference in ensuring that every child receives a quality education. Parents and guardians, we appreciate the support
you provide to your child and recognize you as part of our team! Please join us on a day of your choosing between
November 14-18. You are welcome to eat
with your child in the cafeteria during your child’s scheduled lunch. Adult lunch plate is $3.60: Please bring the
exact amount. Lunch schedules: 4K – 11:50;
5K – 12:00; fist – 11:20; second – 10:45; third – 11:00; forth – 11:20; fifth –
12:15
Josie Rodgers:
RSM High: The Trojans
will travel to Dixie this Friday for another round in the state
playoffs.
The English Honor
Society is
holding a children’s book drive. They are collecting new and gently used
children’s books (up to middle school level) to donated locally in order to
promote literacy in our community.
Please see a member or sponsor Josie Rodgers or drop donations off at
the high school.
Student Council is
having a food drive to help provide
food on the weekends for our students in need. We are accepting all
nonperishable food donations at the high school. The food can be given to Ms.
Jackson or placed in black barrels in front of the trophy case.
Review from David Marshall James:"Loverly: The Life & Times of
'My Fair Lady' " by Dominic McHugh
Timing is everything, particularly in The Theater, and events coalesced during the early-to-mid 1950s to facilitate the transformation of George Bernard Shaw's five-act play "Pygmalion" (1913) into a two-act Broadway musical.
The show probably wouldn't have come to life without the determination of lyricist/librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. Indeed, Rodgers and Hammerstein wouldn't touch the project, nor would Noel Coward, who went on to refuse the role of Prof. Henry Higgins on the several occasions he was requested to take it.
Not that Lerner and Loewe had an easy time of it. The first attempt to conduct the experiment-- with Mary Martin as Eliza Doolittle-- rather mercifully, in hindsight, failed.
A few years later, Julie Andrews was scoring a triumph with her first Broadway musical, "The Boy Friend." Additionally, Lerner and Loewe had set their sights on Rex Harrison to portray Higgins, the master of phonetics who plucks a Cockney flower girl from Covent Garden and prepares to pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball, with a tryout at the Ascot races.
Everyone loves a good makeover, mais oui?
Trouble is, what is Eliza to do after the ball is over? Therein lurked the thickets and sticky wickets for Lerner, as author Dominic McHugh relates through extensive documentation of primary sources.
G.B. Shaw became so frustrated with the playing of "Pygmalion" as a romantic piece with an ultimately "come-around" Higgins that he wrote an epilogue to later published editions of the play, in which he details that Eliza marries her young, rich, handsome, yet dullard suitor, Freddy Eynsford-Hill.
Nevertheless, when Gabriel Pascal produced "Pygmalion" as a 1938 film starring Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard (one year away from portraying Ashley Wilkes in "Gone With the Wind"), the producer pulled a trick on Shaw, who wrote the screenplay, filming an alternative final scene that includes the famous line from Higgins, "Eliza, where the devil are my slippers?"
Lerner's high-wire act was to maintain the Shavian flavor of "Pygmalion" in both libretto and lyrics, while eliminating much of the speechiness of the original's dialogue. Simultaneously, he wanted to keep the relationship between Eliza and Higgins as ambiguous as possible.
Yes, they effect a rapprochement at final curtain; however, do they commence a romance as well? Shaw left no doubt in his epilogue that the future, offstage union is between Eliza and Freddy. However, theater audiences are free to imagine what they will, and Lerner obviously desired to leave the "Higgins/Eliza romance" option open to a theatergoer's imagination without explicitly encouraging the notion, either in book or lyrics.
Eliza and Higgins will remain good friends, and won't they be the better for it ...?
Author McHugh, a lecturer in music at the University of Sheffield (U.K.), emphasizes the development of the book and score of "My Fair Lady," including what songs were composed and discarded, as well as which lyrics were dropped and/or revised.
For instance, Harrison thought that his opening number, "Why Can't the English?," originally bore too much of a resemblance to Coward's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen," so Lerner revamped the lyrics.
Sixty years have passed since the opening night of "My Fair Lady" on Broadway in March 1956. Many theater historians still consider it the best Broadway musical of all time, and it’s difficult to argue otherwise (I place it in my top five, but still put “Gypsy” on top). McHugh recounts the major Broadway and West End revivals of the show, some of them revisionist.
Wouldn't it be loverly if a new film version were produced, less "dreamlike" (as the film's director, George Cukor, called it) than the 1964 original with Harrison and Audrey Hepburn: An authentically British period piece, if you will, featuring some actual locations instead of soundstage sets?
Timing is everything, particularly in The Theater, and events coalesced during the early-to-mid 1950s to facilitate the transformation of George Bernard Shaw's five-act play "Pygmalion" (1913) into a two-act Broadway musical.
The show probably wouldn't have come to life without the determination of lyricist/librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. Indeed, Rodgers and Hammerstein wouldn't touch the project, nor would Noel Coward, who went on to refuse the role of Prof. Henry Higgins on the several occasions he was requested to take it.
Not that Lerner and Loewe had an easy time of it. The first attempt to conduct the experiment-- with Mary Martin as Eliza Doolittle-- rather mercifully, in hindsight, failed.
A few years later, Julie Andrews was scoring a triumph with her first Broadway musical, "The Boy Friend." Additionally, Lerner and Loewe had set their sights on Rex Harrison to portray Higgins, the master of phonetics who plucks a Cockney flower girl from Covent Garden and prepares to pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball, with a tryout at the Ascot races.
Everyone loves a good makeover, mais oui?
Trouble is, what is Eliza to do after the ball is over? Therein lurked the thickets and sticky wickets for Lerner, as author Dominic McHugh relates through extensive documentation of primary sources.
G.B. Shaw became so frustrated with the playing of "Pygmalion" as a romantic piece with an ultimately "come-around" Higgins that he wrote an epilogue to later published editions of the play, in which he details that Eliza marries her young, rich, handsome, yet dullard suitor, Freddy Eynsford-Hill.
Nevertheless, when Gabriel Pascal produced "Pygmalion" as a 1938 film starring Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard (one year away from portraying Ashley Wilkes in "Gone With the Wind"), the producer pulled a trick on Shaw, who wrote the screenplay, filming an alternative final scene that includes the famous line from Higgins, "Eliza, where the devil are my slippers?"
Lerner's high-wire act was to maintain the Shavian flavor of "Pygmalion" in both libretto and lyrics, while eliminating much of the speechiness of the original's dialogue. Simultaneously, he wanted to keep the relationship between Eliza and Higgins as ambiguous as possible.
Yes, they effect a rapprochement at final curtain; however, do they commence a romance as well? Shaw left no doubt in his epilogue that the future, offstage union is between Eliza and Freddy. However, theater audiences are free to imagine what they will, and Lerner obviously desired to leave the "Higgins/Eliza romance" option open to a theatergoer's imagination without explicitly encouraging the notion, either in book or lyrics.
Eliza and Higgins will remain good friends, and won't they be the better for it ...?
Author McHugh, a lecturer in music at the University of Sheffield (U.K.), emphasizes the development of the book and score of "My Fair Lady," including what songs were composed and discarded, as well as which lyrics were dropped and/or revised.
For instance, Harrison thought that his opening number, "Why Can't the English?," originally bore too much of a resemblance to Coward's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen," so Lerner revamped the lyrics.
Sixty years have passed since the opening night of "My Fair Lady" on Broadway in March 1956. Many theater historians still consider it the best Broadway musical of all time, and it’s difficult to argue otherwise (I place it in my top five, but still put “Gypsy” on top). McHugh recounts the major Broadway and West End revivals of the show, some of them revisionist.
Wouldn't it be loverly if a new film version were produced, less "dreamlike" (as the film's director, George Cukor, called it) than the 1964 original with Harrison and Audrey Hepburn: An authentically British period piece, if you will, featuring some actual locations instead of soundstage sets?
Hugh Grant seems born to play
Prof. Henry Higgins; furthermore, he has greater sex appeal than Harrison
did. Audiences took to the 1938
"Pygmalion" film for the same reason. One can certainly imagine Wendy
Hiller and Leslie Howard engaging in a romance; whereas, it's more of a stretch
with Harrison and Julie Andrews, or Audrey Hepburn, even if Shaw wouldn't like it.
REMINDERS
November
17: FORS Meeting @ 5:00 Library
Recycling Center Hours
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1-7; Saturday 7-7; Sunday 3-7
Closed Tuesday and Thursday
Ridge Spring Library
hours:
Mon/Tues 8:30 am - 12 pm; Wed., 8:30 – 4:30; Thurs 8:30 am - 12:30 pm; Fri 8:30
pm -4:30 pm
Narcotics Anonymous: The Ridge
Spring Library on Fridays 7-8 pm
1st
Tuesday of the Month: AARS meets at 6:30, 685-5783
2nd
Tuesday: Harvest Festival
3rd
Thursday: FORS at Ridge Spring
Library 5:00 pm
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