Andrew: Would you be interested in playing Napoleon?
Kitty: [putting the finishing touches to her next 'dream' painting] Who dat?
Andrew: Short French dude, well he wasn't actually short but anyway, who tried to conquer Europe hundreds of years ago.
Kitty: [quizzical]
Andrew: It's a sketch for a comedy show Saturday Night Live. VERY famous show. They wanted all sorts of famous actors (no names) but then they thought it might be funny to cast you.
Kitty: [Über quizzical]
Andrew: The joke is, see, that Napoleon wasn't actually short. The British liked to portray their French enemy as “little Boney" as his soldiers were all quite tall. And you would be, like, 2foot instead of 5 foot. Really, really short.
Kitty: Not making fun of me!?
Andrew: No. no. just making fun of 'fun' really. And you might get to act with Alec Baldwin, very very famous actor.
Kitty: Alec Baldy, I'll google him on my 'catputer'.
Andrew: Baldwin! Don't call him Baldy he'll whack you cross the whiskers:) ! Joking. He's a bit like me, he gets angry sometimes at stupid difficult people. But he's a very, very nice man. Anyway, it's all far in the future and may never happen. You'd get to wear a funny hat, and do your great French accent…
Kitty: [eyes twinkling] bien sûr, monsieur [she purrs with great seductive 'r's]
Andrew: It could launch you into cat-comedy, if that's what you might want?
Kitty: [cheekily, she places her paw on her 'chin' like the cliche of Rodin's thinker and thought bubbles]
Opera North's Trouble in Tahiti, mentioned in the last post, is back streaming for a month (until July 2). Not to be missed.
Choreographer Mark Morris' 2009 sublime Met Opera production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice streams until 6.30pm Thursday June 4. (Doesn't appear to be available on Met demand, only an excerpt). Stephanie Blythe's singing is amazing, she's also a great teacher and a great singer of American popular song.
The Mark Morris Company are offering virtual, interactive classes for adults through Zoom. Each class is $10 to drop-in
Watch online classes and recent Zoom work HERE.
Pina Bausch’s iconic Palermo Palermo is streaming in full.
Spoilt for theatrical streaming choices with this list.
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