& Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Admission Price:
$15 (no discounts available)
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NT Live, a groundbreaking initiative by the National Theatre of London, provides high-def filmed performances of its productions to theaters worldwide. Please join us for an exciting performance hosted on Murdock Theatre's big screen cinema experience.
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Dion Boucicault’s Classic 1841 play that The London Times has called, “a first-class comedic revival”. The show stars the impeccable Simon Russel Beale as the aging Sir Harcourt Courtly. Watch all the antics as Sir Courtly tries to marry the beautiful 18 year old Grace Harkaway while his love-struck son tries to intervene!
Synopsis:
"Sir Harcourt Courtly is lured away from the epicentre of fashionable London by the promise of a rich and beautiful bride, Grace, several decades his junior. Arriving at Oak Hall, Gloucestershire, he marvels at this rural Venus until her charms are eclipsed by her hearty cousin, the foxhunting Lady Gay Spanker. Meanwhile his disguised son turns up in flight from his creditors and falls head over heels for Grace. When Lady Spanker discovers the young couple, she needs little prompting from the visiting chancer Dazzle to lead Sir Harcourt astray.
I am about to present society with a second Lady Courtly: young – blushing eighteen; lovely – I have her portrait; rich – I have her banker’s account. An heiress and a Venus!
Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created – in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker – two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the NT by Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw.
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Tickets Purchase Options:
- Phone: 316.263.1665 ($2 processing fee)
- Box Office: 536 N. Broadway; Box office hours are 9-5; (no processing fee)
- At the door (no processing fee)
Note: It is recommended that you arrive 15 - 30 minutes prior to the event.