For our April 17th show, we are performing with Tiffany Bizup in our sassy mezzo role, and John Hager as our tenacious tenor. It’s always refreshing and surprising to have new perspectives on previously performed material, in this case our program, Songs From Shakespeare: True Love Never Did Run Smooth. I’m looking forward to being under the direction of Katherine Harte-DeCoux again next week, to prepare for our next performance!
Please join us at~
The Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library
7 Maple Ave. Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
On April 17, 2011 at 3:30pm
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Erika Lloyd, Soprano
Tiffany Bizup, Alto
John Hager, Tenor
Garald Farnham, Baritone & Lute
I hope you can make it to one of our upcoming performances!
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With our beautiful new costumes and handsome new tenor, we are ready to tour!
Songs From Shakespeare: True Love Never Did Run Smooth has been in the works for about three months now. With the help of director, Katherine Harte DeCoux, Garald and Alane put together a beautifully scripted set of “Plays within a Play.” The performance is a group of thematic sets of music, actually used in Shakespearean plays at the time, tied together with dialogue from those plays. They pulled material from The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet, The Winter’s Tale, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, and more. The themes run from “young love” to “grieving the death of a family member.” The show is made up of sweet airs, heart breaking laments, and hilarious ditties.
In preparing for this tour we have had many a rehearsal, costume fitting, and coaching. We first worked with Katherine on staging and interpreting the text, along with bringing the music alive and tightening up our ensemble singing. We performed the concert twice in Manhattan at the end of March, both times to very happy audience members. The consensus was, that adding staging and dialogue to our performance made more sense of the Elizabethan music and added a whole new level of entertainment!
After taking a short break (Garald and his family took an exciting trip to China!) we resumed with coachings by soprano, Marcia Young, and actor, Ian Gould. We have really developed as a group, and the attention paid to detail in both the singing and acting has made for a stunning effect! I am very excited about taking this show on the road!
If you are reading this blog and have not seen us perform, or do not know any of us personally yet, you can learn all about us on our website, www.goodpennyworths.com , where you can also find the upcoming tour’s schedule.
I will be blogging along the way on our June 2010 Midwestern tour. Don’t worry, there will be plenty of embarrassing photos of us at highway landmarks or passed out from exhaustion at odd locations.
Until we meet again,
Erika Lloyd