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Arsenic and Old Lace
First edition, 1941
Written by
Joseph Kesselring
Characters
Mortimer Brewster
Martha Brewster
Abby Brewster
Teddy Brewster
Jonathan Brewster
The Rev. Dr. Harper
Elaine Harper
Dr. Einstein
Date premiered
January 10, 1941 (1941-January-10)
Place premiered
Fulton Theatre, Broadway
Original language
English
Genre
Dark Comedy
Setting
The living room of the Brewster home in Brooklyn. The Present.
Arsenic and Old Lace is a play written by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the subsequent film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra.
The play was directed by Bretaigne Windust, and opened on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre on January 10, 1941. On September 25, 1943, the play moved to the Hudson Theatre. It closed there on June 17, 1944, having played 1,444 performances.[1]
Of the twelve plays written by Kesselring, Arsenic and Old Lace was the most successful, and, according to the opening night review in The New York Times, the play was "so funny that none of us will ever forget it."[2]
Contents
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1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Inspiration
4 TV adaptation
5 Revivals
6 See also
7 Further reading
8 References
9 External links
Plot[edit]
Boris Karloff as Jonathan Brewster
The play is a farcical black comedy revolving around the Brewster family, descended from the Mayflower, but now composed of insane homicidal maniacs. The hero, Mortimer Brewster, is a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn, New York, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves.
His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and "just a pinch" of cyanide; a brother who believes he is Theodore Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home (which then serve as graves for the aunts' victims; he thinks that they died of yellow fever); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein (a character based on real-life gangland surgeon Joseph Moran) to conceal his identity, and now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff (a self-referential joke, as the part was originally played on Broadway by Karloff).
The film adaptation follows the same basic plot, with a few minor changes.
August Strindberg is referenced by the character Mortimer Brewster when he compares the stories of his eccentric, and frequently murderous and disturbed, family as being as if "...Strindberg wrote Hellzapoppin'."
Cast[edit]
The opening night cast consisted of:
Erich von Stroheim replaced Boris Karloff as Jonathan Brewster in the original Broadway production[3]
Jean Adair as Martha Brewster
John Alexander as Teddy Brewster
Wyrley Birch as The Rev. Dr. Harper
Helen Brooks as Elaine Harper
Bruce Gordon as Officer Klein
Henry Herbert as Mr. Gibbs
Josephine Hull as Abby Brewster
Allyn Joslyn as Mortimer Brewster
Boris Karloff as Jonathan Brewster
William Parke as Mr. Witherspoon
John Quigg as Officer Brophy
Anthony Ross as Officer O'Hara
Edgar Stehli as Dr. Einstein
Victor Sutherland as Lieutenant Rooney
Inspiration[edit]
When Kesselring taught at Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas, he lived in a boarding house called the Goerz House, and many of the features of its living room are reflected in the Brewster sisters' living room, where the action of the play is set. The Goerz House is now the home of the college president.
Bethel College was a school of the pacifist Mennonite church. The play appeared at a time of strong isolationist sentiment regarding European affairs.[4]
The "murderous old lady" plot line may also have been inspired by actual events that occurred in a house on Prospect St in Windsor, Connecticut, where a woman, Amy Archer-Gilligan, took in boarders, promising "lifetime care", and poisoned them for their pensions. M. William Phelps book The Devil's Rooming House tells the story of the police officers and reporters from the Hartford Courant who solved the case.[5] Kesselring originally conceived the play as a heavy drama, but it is widely believed that producers Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse (who were also well known as play doctors) convinced Kesselring that it would be much more effective as a comedy.
TV adaptation[edit]
On January 5, 1955, a 60-minute version of the play aired on the CBS Television series The Best of Broadway. It starred Boris Karloff recreating his stage role as homicidal maniac Jonathan Brewster. Helen Hayes and Billie Burke played his not-so-innocent aunts, Abby and Martha. Peter Lorre and Edward Everett Horton repeated their roles as Dr. Einstein and Mr. Witherspoon which they had played in Frank Capra's film version. John Alexander, who created the role of Teddy Brewster on Broadway and reprised it in the film version, returned once more to play the role in the broadcast. Orson Bean played the role of Mortimer Brewster.
Karloff played Jonathan once more (and for the last time) on the February 5, 1962 broadcast of NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame. Dorothy Stickney and Mildred Natwick played Abby and Martha. Ironically, Joseph Kesselring sent his original play "Bodies in Our Cellar" to Stickney when she was starring opposite her husband Howard Lindsay on Broadway in Life With Father with a view to her playing Abby Brewster. It would be 23 years before she would finally play the part. Tony Randall played Mortimer in the Hallmark production and Tom Bosley played Teddy.
In 1969, Robert Scheerer directed a TV version for ABC Movie of the Week, with Helen Hayes and Lillian Gish as the elderly aunts, Bob Crane as Mortimer, Fred Gwynne as Jonathan and David Wayne as Teddy.[6]
Revivals[edit]
Jezinky a bezinky, a Czech translation of the play in performance by the Brno City Theatre in 2012
Later revivals in the 1940's and 1950's had Bela Lugosi playing the role of Jonathan Brewster with box office returns reflecting better sales than when Boris Karloff traveled through the same cities.[7][8][9]
In 1965, Sybil Thorndike, Athene Seyler and Richard Briers appeared in the play in London. The play is still widely performed and has been translated into many languages, including a Russian film.[citation needed] A Broadway revival of the play ran from June 26, 1986, to January 3, 1987, at the 46th Street Theatre in New York, starring Polly Holliday, Jean Stapleton, Tony Roberts and Abe Vigoda. A recent revival was mounted in February 2011 at the Dallas Theater Center starring Betty Buckley and Tovah Feldshuh.[10] A Hebrew version was staged at the Habima Theatre in Tel Aviv with the opening night on October 29, 2012, with Lea Koenig and Dvora Kaydar in the main roles.[citation needed] On November 19, 2016, Independent Theatre Pakistan opened their new season with a rendition of the performance at Ali Auditorium in Lahore, Pakistan.[11]
See also[edit]
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant#In popular culture
Further reading[edit]
Matthew C. Gunter (2012). The Capra Touch: A Study of the Director's Hollywood Classics and War Documentaries, 1934-1945. McFarland. pp. 49–51.
"There's a Body in the Window-Seat, a history of Arsenic and Old Lace, America's Most Beloved Farce" by playwright and author Charles Dennis is to be published by Asahina & Wallace in 2017.[needs update]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Arsenic and Old Lace at the Internet Broadway Database
Jump up ^ "Arsenic and Old Lace", Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times, 11 January 1941.
Jump up ^ Erich von Stroheim at the Internet Broadway Database
Jump up ^ Keith L. Sprunger, "Another Look Another Look: Joseph Kesselring, Bethel College, and the Origins of Arsenic and Old Lace, Menonnite Life (May, 2013).
Jump up ^ Leavenworth, Jessica (21 March 2010). "'Devil's Rooming House' Examines 'Arsenic And Old Lace' Killings (Interview)". Hartford Courant. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
Jump up ^ Arsenic and Old Lace (1969) on IMDb
Jump up ^ Rhodes, Gary (2007). Bela Lugosi: Dreams and Nightmares. Collectables Press. ISBN 0977379817.
Jump up ^ Kaffenberger, Bill; Rhodes, Gary (2012). No Traveler Returns: The Lost Years of Bela Lugosi. BearManor Media. ISBN 1593932855.
Jump up ^ Kaffenberger, Bill; Rhodes, Gary (2015). Bela Lugosi In Person. BearManor Media. ISBN 1593938055.
Jump up ^ "Buckley and Feldshuh shine in Arsenic and Old Lace", Lawson Taitte,The Dallas Morning News, February 11, 2011.
Jump up ^ "Arsenic & Old Lace: Play Highlights [LGS 15-C & ITP Collaboration]". Daily Pakistan. Retrieved 2016-11-25.
External links[edit]
Plot summary for Arsenic and Old Lace (1944 film), IMDB
1952 Best Plays radio adaptation at Internet Archive
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The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
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The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Covers of the first four novels.
The Alchemyst
The Magician
The Sorceress
The Necromancer
The Warlock
The Enchantress
Author
Michael Scott
Cover artist
Michael Wagner
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Fantasy, Thriller, Young adult fiction
Publisher
Random House
Published
22 May 2007
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback)
Audiobook
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel is a series of six fantasy novels written by Irish author Michael Scott, completed in 2012. The first book in the series, The Alchemyst, was released in 2007, and the sequels were released at the rate of one per year, concluding with The Enchantress in 2012. The cover artist for the series is Michael Wagner.
English-language versions are printed by Doubleday (hardback) and Corgi (paperback) (imprints of Random House) in the UK and Australia, and by Delacorte Press (hardback and paperback; also an imprint of Random House) in the US. As of November 2009[update], the translation rights have been purchased by 37 countries and the books have been translated into 20 languages.[1] Each of the first four titles featured in the top ten of the New York Times Best Seller Children's Books list. The Alchemyst reached No. 2 on 26 August 2007[2] and as of 24 March 2008 it had sold in excess of 150,000 copies.[3] The Magician reached No. 4 on 13 July 2008.[4] The Sorceress reached No. 5,[5] and The Necromancer reached No. 3.[6] The books have been nominated for various teen literary and reader's awards. The film rights to the series have been bought by AMPCO Films.[7]
Contents
[hide]
1 Plot overview
2 Development
3 Main characters
4 Titles' significance
5 Special editions and cover variations
6 Series chronology
6.1 Side stories
7 Online games
8 Awards and nominations
9 Audiobooks
10 Film adaptation
11 References
12 External links
Plot overview[edit]
The main story arc charts the adventures of two fifteen-year-old American teens, named Sophie and Josh Newman, whose regular lives working at their summer jobs (Sophie works in a coffee shop, Josh in a bookstore) are turned upside down by the arrival of Dr. John Dee. Dr. Dee engages the bookstore owner, Nick Fleming, in a battle of magic in an attempt to steal an ancient book, The Book of Abraham the Mage (a.k.a. the Codex) from him. Dr. John Dee snatches the book from Josh's grasp, but Josh manages to retain two pages. Dr. John Dee also kidnaps Nick's wife Perry Fleming and imprisons her on Alcatraz Island.
After the battle, Nick Fleming confesses to Josh and Sophie that his real name is Nicholas Flamel, that he is the French alchemist from history, that he is also immortal, and that the twins, himself, and Perry (his immortal wife, Perenelle Flamel), are in grave danger. Nicholas tells the twins that he believes them to be mentioned in a prophecy within the Codex, and that the fate of the world as they know it could depend on his success in getting their dormant, latent magical abilities fully awakened. He also tells them that without the Codex, both he and Perry will die within a month, as their immortality, prolonged youth, and longevity depends on a recipe for a special elixir found only within its pages. This elixir changes monthly and cannot be memorised.
Meanwhile Dr. John Dee has found out that he is missing two vital pages from the Codex. The pages are the Final Summoning, needed by him to return his masters, the Dark Elders, to earth... and so begins a fast-paced race as Dee pursues the twins and Nicholas for the pages of the Codex, whilst Nicholas aided by Scáthach and others race to get the twins' latent magical auras awakened, to get them schooled in the use of the elemental magics – Water, Fire, Earth, Air, and Aether – and to rescue his wife, Perry.
The stories criss-cross the globe, featuring well known places and sights, such as San Francisco, London, the Eiffel Tower, Stonehenge and the Golden Gate Bridge. Many characters from history and mythology help both sides pursue their goals. In the first four books alone, Scáthach, Hekate, Prometheus, the Witch of Endor, Gilgamesh, Niccolò Machiavelli, Bastet, Odin, William Shakespeare, Joan of Arc, Billy the Kid, Virginia Dare, the Count of St. Germain and Mars Ultor enter the series.
Development[edit]
The idea for the series as a whole began in May 1997. Initially the series had Dr. Dee in the leading role, and was going to be called The Secrets of John Dee,[8] a historical character that Scott knew well, having featured him in three of his other titles: Image, Reflection and The Merchant Prince. He wanted to bring Dr. Dee into the 21st Century and introduce him to a young audience that may not have heard of the historical doctor before,[9] but he decided that Dr. Dee was too sinister and had dubious motivation. Inspiration struck one night in 2000, when Scott took a wrong turn whilst wandering around Paris and happened upon Nicholas Flamel's house in the Rue du Montmorency.[10] Having decided that he had found the perfect mentor for the twins, Scott began plotting the series in earnest, planning the storyline of each chapter. He soon decided that it would be a six-book series, which would allow him to introduce many figures from history and mythology. In the six books, readers have been introduced to characters from the Greco-Roman, Egyptian, Norse and Celtic mythologies and historical characters from the Elizabethan, Renaissance, Egyptian and Gilded eras. He plotted the whole series to such an intricate level that his plot script is currently in excess of 80,000 words, equivalent to a book itself, and that he knew in 2009 what the last words to the series would be.[8]
Main characters[edit]
Nicholas Flamel – The title character, an alchemyst. Along with his wife, Perenelle, he has lived for nearly 700 years searching for Josh and Sophie Newman, the Gold and Silver twins of legend, who can save the Shadowrealm of Earth from the mad Dr. John Dee and the Dark Elders who seek to destroy it. Flamel is a legend who built his fortune through alchemy, which he uses to amazing effect to combat the horrors Dee sends after the twins and himself. Despite good intentions, however, he is not without flaws, and seeks recompense by training Josh and Sophie.
Josh Newman – The Gold twin of legend. Awakened by Mars Ultor, Josh is a lover of history and a natural strategist. However, he is suspicious of Nicholas Flamel, due to his not telling them of the previous twins' demise, a fact that causes Josh to ultimately shift alliances, though he remains cautious of Dee. Eventually, he sides with Flamel.
Sophie Newman – The Silver twin of legend. Awakened by Hekate (the Goddess of Three Faces), and later trained by The Witch of Endor, who infuses her memories and experiences into her. Sophie is protective of Josh and more patient, though she is also horrified by the twins' fates. She decides to side with the Flamels to save Earth, but seeks out her brother eventually.
Dr. John Dee – The main antagonist. An English magician and necromancer who formerly advised Queen Elizabeth I, he seeks to bring back to Earth the Dark Elders, who wish to destroy and rebuild it. However, after he is declared utlaga, or outlaw, for failing them, he decides to use the four swords of power – Excalibur, Clarent, Joyeuse and Durendal – to go back in time to Danu Talis and destroy them, convincing Josh to join his side with the promise of a renewed Earth. Eventually he sides with the Flamels but by then it is too late.
Perenelle Flamel – The wife of Nicholas, and a powerful sorceress. Being the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, she can contact ghosts and has a long-standing feud with Machiavelli. Many have suggested, correctly, that she is much more powerful than Nicholas, as she has proven as she tries to save San Francisco from the horrors on nearby Alcatraz.
Niccolò Machiavelli – A renowned Italian philosopher and eventual warlock, or waerlaga, who is tasked with releasing an army from Alcatraz after helping Dee in Paris. He and Josh have an understanding, as they are both human in spirit, a trait which he later shares with Billy the Kid. This trait causes Machiavelli to re-evaluate his opinions of the Dark Elders and reform and break his oaths to them, choosing not to release the monsters on the humani.
Scathach - The Celtic goddess of the war. She has a grey aura. She is an Elder of the 2nd generation and a vegetarian vampire. She is approximately 10000 years old but seems to have 17 of it and claims 2000. She will accompany the alchemist and the twins in their adventures but will be taken by Dagon in the Seine. It is the great friend of Joan of Arc, that she educated. She was the creator of most of the martial arts and formed the biggest Heroes of the History. To have helped the human beings during the Fall of Danu Talis, she was rejected by her family before saving their life a few years later. She speaks few his parents and her brother. She has a twin sister ( Aifé) but they would have long ago become muddled because of a boy, they do not speak to each other any more. Scathach is also called "the Shadow", the "Goddess Warrior", "the King Maker", "the Warrior Maiden" "the Daemon Slayer" and Scatty. Her grandmother is the Witch of Endor, her presumed grandfather being Mars Ultor.
Titles' significance[edit]
On 1 July 2012 Michael Scott issued this statement incontrovertibly naming the title characters so far.
"Each book in the series is named after a character. Some are easy to guess (The Alchemyst is Flamel, for example), but others require a closer reading of the text. So here, to avoid endless Wikipedia changes, is the (almost) definitive list.
The Alchemyst is Nicholas Flamel.
The Magician is Dr. John Dee.
The Sorceress is Perenelle Flamel.
The Necromancer is Josh Newman.
The Warlock is Niccolo Machiavelli.
The Enchantress is Sophie Newman.
Special editions and cover variations[edit]
On 5 August 2010 in the UK Necromancer was released featuring a new-style cover; it was joined by The Alchemyst, The Magician and The Sorceress which were re-released with new covers in the same style.
The alternative covers, for the UK editions.
The Alchemyst, The Magician and The Sorceress were released as a special edition boxed set called The First Codex in the USA on 28 September 2010.
The First Codex, USA box set.
Series chronology[edit]
In published order:
The Alchemyst – released on 24 May 2007 (UK), 22 May 2007 (US)
The Magician – released on 5 June 2008 (UK), 24 June 2008 (US)
The Sorceress – released on 25 June 2009 (UK), 26 May 2009 (US)
The Necromancer – released on 25 May 2010 (US), 5 August 2010 (UK)
The Warlock – released on 24 May 2011 (US), 2 June 2011 (UK)
The Enchantress – released on 22 May 2012
Side stories[edit]
"The Death of Joan of Arc" – released 24 August 2010 in eBook format[11]
"Billy the Kid and the Vampyres of Vegas: A Lost Story from the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" – released 22 November 2011[12]
Online games[edit]
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series has spawned online games. The first related online game to be launched was The Codex Master[13] The game is to guess a secret code consisting of a sequence of coloured orbs by inputting various sequences and using logic. When a sequence is entered, indicators show when the player has the right colour and also when a colour is in the right or wrong position to enable them to apply logic and guess the correct sequence.
An online game was created to celebrate the release of The Sorceress.[14] It was called The Challenges of the Elder[15] and launched on 21 April 2009. Players are guided through the game, which is a set of four challenges, by video scenes featuring Michael Scott. The first task, the Alchemyst's challenge, required players to assemble a moving jigsaw of the series' logo against a countdown clock. The second task, the Magician's challenge, required players to turn over two books from a series of books and find matching symbols; when a matching pair was found both books burst into flames and disappeared. The task was complete when all the books had been matched. The third task, the Sorceress' challenge, was a colour sequencing game where players chose coloured flasks and would have to repeat the sequence that they were shown in. Players then advanced to meet The Elder, who asked them a set of knowledge questions about the books, and were given a 'coloured aura ranking' calculated from their scores and time taken to complete the tasks.
To promote the USA release of The Necromancer, Random House released an online game called The Quest for the Codex.[16] Players were presented with a grid containing numbered squares and had to click on the squares to uncover hidden rewards, playing pieces and mini-games. When they completed the game they received online access to the first 6 chapters of The Necromancer.
Awards and nominations[edit]
The Alchemyst
Irish Book of the Year – 2008[17]
Kentucky Bluegrass Book Award[18]
Maine Student Book Award[19]
Nevada Young Readers Award[20]
North Carolina School Library Media Association Young Adult Book Award – 2010[21]
Rhode Island Book Award – 2008[22] (bested 200 other titles that were entered)[23]
The Magician
2009 Irish Book of the Year – The Dublin Airport Authority Irish Children's Book of the Year – Snr Category[24]
The Sorceress
Amazon – Best Books of 2009, Top 10 Children's Books: Middle Readers[25]
Cybills (Children and Young Bloggers Literary Awards) – 2009 Nominations, fantasy & science-fiction: Elementary/Middle Years[26]
Audiobooks[edit]
The six titles have all been recorded as unabridged audiobooks. The Alchemyst was narrated by Denis O'Hare. The Magician was narrated by Erik Singer. The Sorceress, The Necromancer, The Warlock and The Enchantress were narrated by Paul Boehmer.
Film adaptation[edit]
Film rights were initially sold in 2006 to New Line Cinema and Mark Burnett Productions with Mark Burnett being named as the producer and Eric Bress as the script writer. The film was listed as in pre-production and reported at IMDb. Mention of the deal can still be found in the BBC archives.[27] The rights reverted to Michael Scott and on 19 November 2009 it was announced in Variety that Lorenzo di Bonaventura had bought the film rights to the series.[28] Michael Scott and Barry Krost were to be executive producers.
"Well, I have been promising news of the Flamel movie. Here's the press release. The movie was set up with New Line, but New Line were absorbed by Warner and the rights reverted to me. There has been tremendous interest in the series and eventually, it went to Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who is the man responsible for bringing Harry Potter to Warner when he was there. He genuinely loves this series. The next step now is to attach a writer – I will not write it, I have 3 more books to do!" Michael Scott[29]
On 21 June 2012, it was announced that AMPCO Films had acquired the film rights. Production is set to begin in February 2013 in Australia and New Zealand. Michael Scott will write the screenplay, saying he would like it to be true to the books.[30]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Michael Scott. "Michael Scott-The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel-The Alchemyst". Dillonscott.com. Archived from the original on 18 September 2009. Retrieved 24 November 2009.
Jump up ^ Staff writer (26 August 2007). "Children's Books-New York Times 2007". New York Times. Retrieved 10 July 2010.
Jump up ^ Roback, Diane (24 March 2008). "Publishers Weekly". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2009.
Jump up ^ Staff writer (13 July 2008). "Children's Books-New York Times 2008". New York Times. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
Jump up ^ Staff writer (5 June 2009). "Children's Books-New York Times 2009". New York Times. Retrieved 10 July 2010.
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