Comedy Genius -- The Regard of Flight -- 1983 -- Bill Irwin in performance

00:00 Introduction
00:27 Curtain open / Bill in bed
02:50 The lean effect which you have just seen
03:56 Now is this 'New Theater'?
04:32 Bill in bed
05:18 Profound and deep-seated mistrust of the proscenium
06:44 Manifesto
07:24 Places for a dance segment
08:14 Free association segment
08:48 Places for a dance segment
09:22 Have you got any hat tricks?
10:23 Places for a dance segment. [slower dance]
11:11 Stark kinetic image segment
11:26 Performance is an aspect of prophecy. It is a leap of faith.
12:22 Warning: costume change. [enter Critic]
13:56 Places for a dance segment
14:25 Warning: costume change
14:58 First homesickness song
-------- 'Home in Pasadena,' Warren/Clarke/Leslie, 1923
17:02 Warning: costume change. [Critic and coats]
17:54 Places for a dance segment. [Critic fight]
20:38 The rise of the actor as poet / liberation from the empty polish of conventional theater
21:06 Trunk business / imagery discussion / John the Baptist / Samuel Beckett
23:56 Second homesickness song
-------- 'When You're a Long, Long Way from Home,' Lewis/Meyer, 1914
25:54 Disguise / Find a NEW New Theater
28:18 Environmental staging
28:44 Use the device! / One of the deceptions of the bourgeois theater
30:02 I would like to involve you in the work at this time
31:29 We can create a New Theater without the baggage
32:46 Shakespeare! For a New Theater!
33:50 Trunk business
34:32 Will you my lord attend within the nobles France and Burgundy?
37:23 You cue the music when you're ready
38:58 Don't come--it's a trap!
40:44 This is Eddy [ventriloquist act]
42:44 Pantomime clown gets direction
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

14:58 First homesickness song

HOME IN PASADENA
(Words: Edgar Leslie/Grant Clarke, Music: Harry Warren, 1923)

Home in Pasadena,
Home where grass is greener;
Where honey bees hum melodies
And orange trees scent the breeze.
I wanna be a Home-Sweet-Homer,
And there I'll settle down
Beneath the palms
In someone's arms
In Pasadena, Pasadena town.

Gonna be an aggregation
Waitin' for me at the station
Pasadena town, Pasadena town
Oh, I want to be a roamer
Now with time to think it over
I want to settle down
Yes, I want to settle down
Oh, honey bees
Little bumblebees
Oh, mellow syncopated melodies
I know ????? [orange?] trees are softly swinging
While birds are sweetly singing in the breeze
I want to be a happy Home-Sweet-Homer
Never want to be a roamer
Pasadena town, Pasadena town
There away from all the worries
Of the city's hurry scurries
Every evening when the sun goes down
Beneath the ????? [... palm trees?]
Someone's captivatin' fascinatin' arms of...
[The Actor runs out of breath.]

See Also:
Billy Murray and Ed Smalle - Home in Pasadena (1924)
   • Billy Murray and Ed Smalle - Home in Pasad...  

Murray and Smalle sing:
Gonna be an aggregation -- Waitin' for me at the station
In Pasadena town, in Pasadena town
Home [?] I long to be a rover -- Now each time I think it over
I want to settle down -- I want to settle down
Where honey -- Busy little bumblebees
Hum mellow, syncopated melodies
And orange trees are slowly swinging
While birds are softly singing on the breeze
I want to be a happy Home-Sweet-Homer
Never want to be a roamer
From Pasadena town, from Pasadena town
There away from all the worry of the city's hurry-burry
Every evening when the sun goes down
Beneath those spoony-Juney honeymoony palms
In someone's captivating fascinating arms
I'll be in P-a-s-a-d-e-n-a t-o-w-n, Pasadena town.
I'm going home.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

23:56 Second homesickness song

WHEN YOU'RE A LONG, LONG WAY FROM HOME
(Words: Sam M. Lewis, Music: Geo. W. Meyer, 1914)
[Skipping the first two stanzas.]

When you're a long, long way from home -- It makes you feel like you're alone
Its hard to find a pal that's true -- That you can tell your troubles to
And when you send a letter home -- Your mother's voice rings in your ears
And then you'll cross the T's with kisses -- While your pen gets busy
And then you'll dot the I's with tears -- And all your sunshine turns to gloom
When you're a long, long way from home -- oh, yeah
When you're a long, long way from home -- from home -- from home
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
From www.bill-irwin.com:
"The Regard of Flight (PBS, Great Performances), on and off Broadway, across the U.S. and in Sydney, Australia (Off-Broadway c.1983, Broadway 04/07-26/1987)"
New York Times review from 1987:
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/13/the...
Playbill information from 1987:
http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Det...
"Synopsis: Creator Bill Irwin stars in an evening of physical comedy in the vaudeville tradition, featuring costars M.C. O'Connor and Doug Skinner."
Los Angeles Times review from 1991:
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-07-1...
'The Regard of Flight' at www.librarymedia.org:
http://librarymedia.org/MacArthur_Vid...