thundering on the Internet

[Ed Mullaly]

        This sudden burst of performance missives which have recently been
thundering down the information highway has moved CanDrama, for the moment,
out of the feeders onto the express lanes.  To aid this momentum:
 
        Here in Fredericton, TNB's first season under its new Executive
Producer, Walter Learning (back in power after 17 years wasted at the Canada
Council and on innumerable golf courses), has just mounted 'The Gin Game',
and will be offering 'Rock and Roll' and 'Lend me a Tenor' for the
delictation of the masses between now and April.  G&S will celebrate Passion
Week (the one just before Christ rose) with 'The Pirates of Penzance'.  At
UNB, student productions of 'The Odd Couple', female version, and 'The
Private Ear' & 'The Public Eye' are running now.  Ken Gass's 'Claudius' will
run next month.  'The Physicist' is on in March.  An original gender-bending
script 'Romeo and Julien' will also be on in March.  And tonight is the
world premiere of a new Norm Foster dinner theatre script.  Theatrically, a
life crowded with incident!
 
        I'm trying to trace down the 'facts', if such there be, around the
old story of the actor dying a painful death who, when someone sympathized
with his difficulty of his last moments, murmured "No, dying's easy.
Comedy's hard!"  Or is this just an urban theatrical legend?
 
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  Edward Mullaly,                 Old chestnuts are old chestnuts
  Department of English, UNB      because they have survived the
  mullaly at unb.ca  (506)453-4676   other chestnuts, and there's
  FAX 453-5069                    usually good reason for that.
                                                -- Atwood