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Jonathan at Large

FRID-EVIL...
A new DVD which made its first debut at the Dark Shadows Festival in Burbank, July 2008.

Featured on this
DVD are

- Some outrageous shenanigans
on shore and off following
a shipwreck at sea
The Tempest
Wm. Shakespeare

- The conniving evil of
Don John
Much Ado About Nothing
Wm. Shakespeare

and

- The Abominable Coronation of a
Desperate King...
The Tragedy of King
Richard III
Wm. Shakespeare

Now we feature this magnificent timepiece for sale here on our website.

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FRID-EVIL

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**SPECIAL BONUS**
Jonathan will autograph
each DVD cover

The Dark Shadows Festival
Burbank, California July 2008

Frid’s Program Footnotes
WHEN HE GETS A CHANCE

For starters, these two years of "happy returns" to the Dark Shadows Festivals have been sadly lacking in my attending or making appearances, however brief, at other activities...either arranged by management…or by fellow cast mates themselves who previously had made Dark Shadows episodes work so well…all those years ago.

Of course, this absence of mine at other activities had nothing to do with deliberateness, but simply with carelessness…in not organizing my materials much earlier before the actual festival dates.
I actually began to prepare for Dark Shadows 08 at Burbank as far back as a week or so after the close of Dark Shadows, Tarrytown New York, mid-august 2007.

And so what happened? The effort began to degenerate into fits and starts during the late fall of 2007. Throughout the early months of 2008, the "effort" really began to get entangled with production , direction , salable table items to say nothing of "ongoing" testing of various story lines ( hilarious and tragic ) And then there were the signing of 2000 photos for every banquet ticket sold. How to ship boxes galore not only from east to west but from Canada to the U.S...etc. etc. etc.

And so, on the afternoon of July19 2008, almost a year later, I left my room at the Burbank Marriott Hotel at 4:27 pm...and still not ready... carrying my script and pencil…a pencil with a reliable eraser for last minute changes… and groping my way to the auditorium and to a coffin… especially arranged for the occasion…as I tried to get a tight grip on the gist of Action 1 with Willy, and of Paragraph 1 of the program itself.

And so how will the future play out?. Keep in touch. jf

Taking a look at Frid's life in show business from the times when he was old at 16 (Sir Anthony Absolute-1941) and young at 70 (Mass Appeal-2000)...with Barnabas in between, how old...how young...its hard to keep up with his age.

1 - Growth of Barnabas...a principle character

Scenes

* - David & Barnabas get acquainted.

* - Barnabas meets Maggie in her
coffee Shop

* - Barnabas and Burke...bandy words at the Blue Whale

* - Barnabas stunned by the elopement
of Josette and Jeremiah

* - Barnabas takes the consequent duel one step further

* - Three episodes featuring Thayer David

2 – The Growth of Frid...a principle actor ( but not so good a speller...OK!!! "principal"...the same goes for the one above)

- Highlights
         *Julius Caesar by Wm. Shakespeare 1940
        *The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1941
        *And So To Bed by J.B. Fagan 1942
        *The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz 1951
                 ( Adapted from Henry James’ Washington Square )

KEEP IN TOUCH WITH OUR JONATHAN AT LARGE AS IT
DEVELOPS IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS WITH A
SPECIAL FEATURE IN THE COMING SHADOWGRAM

The sample of our 3-man Evil Incarnate originally found on the front of the site has now found a new place here under:

Where else will you find a 3 character scene both spoken and listened to by one actor?

We are presently in the act of inventing...re-inventing, really...a three image presentation of the text of "Wooing"...that's to say, with three separate motion pictures on the screen at one time.

This depiction of the climax of the wooing of Lady Anne has been a goal of ours for longer than we care to admit...

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2.	CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE ENTIRE SCRIPT FOR "FRID-EVIL".