| Adaptor 1 |
Wayne, Johnny
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| Adaptor 2 |
Shuster, Frank |
| Title |
The Shakespearean Baseball Game |
| Cast/Performers |
Johnny Wayne
Frank Shuster |
| Publishing
and Multimedia |
*Wayne and Schuster. The Shakespearean Baseball Game. Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare.
[Link1]. |
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http://www2.uoguelph.ca/dfischli/a_baseball.cfm
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| Secondary
Materials |
*Eaman, Ross A. "Wayne and Shuster." The Museum of Broadcast Communications. 6 Nov. 2003.
[Link1].
*"Wayne and Shuster." Punchline Productions. 6 Nov. 2003.
[Link2].
*"Wayne and Shuster at the National Archives of Canada:
The Frank Shuster Fonds." National Archives of Canada. 6 Nov. 2003.
[Link3].
*"Wayne & Shuster 50 Years of Comedy Video." La Gift Shop.com. 7 Nov. 2003.
[Link4]. |
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http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/W/htmlW/wayneandshu/wayneandshu.htm
http://www.olywa.net/randyandsteve/wayne_and_shuster.htm
http://www.archives.ca/04/04241501_e.html
http://www.lagiftshop.com/wayneshuster.html
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| Adaptor 1
Biography |
"One-half of Canada's most successful comedy team, he was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1918 and died there in 1990.
He met his cohort, Frank Shuster, when he was 13 years old at Toronto's Harbord Collegiate. There, they began to perform in reviews. From there they went to the University of Toronto and performed in the College Follies. They enlisted for service in WWII and began to perform again together soon after in The Army Show. After the war they were active in radio and television and became the favourite performers of TV icon Ed Sullivan, appearing on his show 58 times.
Though not beloved of the critics, the team was adored by audiences and performed together until Wayne's death in 1990" (qtd. from 6 Nov. 2003. http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Wayne%2C%20Johnny). |
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http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Wayne%2C%20Johnny
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| Adaptor 1
Bibliography |
*Eaman, Ross A. "Wayne and Shuster." The Museum of Broadcast Communications. 6 Nov. 2003.
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/W/htmlW/wayneandshu/wayneandshu.htm.
*"Wayne, Johnny. Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. 6 Nov. 2003.
http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Wayne%2C%20Johnny. |
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http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/W/htmlW/wayneandshu/wayneandshu.htm
http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Wayne%2C%20Johnny
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| Adaptor
2 Biography |
One-half of Canada's most successful comedy team, he was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1916, died there January 13, 2002.
He met his cohort, Johnny Wayne, when he was 12 years old at Toronto's Harbord Collegiate. There, they began to perform in reviews. From there they went to the University of Toronto and performed in the College Follies. They enlisted for service in WWII and began to perform again together soon after in The Army Show. After the war they were active in radio and television and became the favourite performers of TV icon Ed Sullivan, appearing on his show 58 times.
Though not beloved of the critics, the team was adored by audiences and performed together until Wayne's death in 1990.
Mr. Shuster lived in Toronto. He was an Officer of the Order of Canada (1997)" (qtd. from 6 Nov. 2003. http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Shuster%2C%20Frank). |
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http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Shuster%2C%20Frank
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| Adaptor
2 Bibliography |
*Eaman, Ross A. "Wayne and Shuster." The Museum of Broadcast Communications. 6 Nov. 2003.
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/W/htmlW/wayneandshu/wayneandshu.htm.
*"Shuster, Frank. Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. 6 Nov. 2003.
http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Shuster%2C%20Frank. |
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http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/W/htmlW/wayneandshu/wayneandshu.htm
http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Shuster%2C%20Frank
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| Synopsis |
"Wayne and Shuster's comedy appealed to an educated audience because it took intelligence and a certain knowledge of history and the classics for granted [...] Their 1958 Shakespearean baseball sketch mocked the Shakespeare craze in Stratford (Ontario) following the founding of the Stratford Festival there, and presumes an acquaintance with Hamlet and Macbeth. In their account of a Stratford baseball game, batter MacDuff gets 'a hit...a very palpable hit', says Shuster, but the hit is declared foul and Wayne protests to the umpire: 'So fair a foul I have not seen....Get thee a pair of glasses. Get thee to an optometrist.' He then gets beaned by a baseball and goes mad, prompting Shuster to lament: 'Now cracks a noble head. Goodnight sweet catcher. Flights of shortstops sing thee to thy rest.'" (qtd. from 6 Nov. 2003. http://www.archives.ca/04/04241501_e.html). |
| Keywords |
Baseball
Canadian History
Collective Creation
Comedy
Pop Culture
Professional
Stratford Festival |
| Adaptation
of |
Hamlet
Macbeth |
| Entry Last Updated |
10Jan07 5:37PM |
