Kristine Knowlton: Recent Episodes
Kristine Knowlton
Please check out our main site at: http://offthetopic.podbean.com/Today’s non-topic is ‘Blank Space’.Also, brought to you by RoseColored Glasses:FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE January 5, 2009 Contact: Dennis Dippary PO Box 160 Nassau, DE 19969 302-465-8783 dennis@rosecoloredglassestheater.com http://www.rcgtheater.com RoseColored Glasses 2009 Season Announced Songs For a New World June 25 - 28 Words and Music by Jason Robert Brown- Lights come up on a single woman. Another woman and two men soon join her. Their hopes and dreams, fears and failures conjure up images of explorers setting out to find new lands. The Americas of yesterday, today and tomorrow join hands across time and together discover SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD. Says the author of this gripping revue, “it’s about one moment. It’s about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.” Jason Robert Brown transports you from the deck of a 1492 Spanish sailing ship to a ledge 57 stories above Fifth Avenue to meet a startling array of characters ranging from a young man who has determined that basket-ball is his ticket out of the ghetto to a woman whose dream of marrying rich nabs her the man of her dreams and a soulless marriage. These are the stories and characters of today, the songs for a new world.Edgar’s Ghost October 7 - 11 Written by Jim Liddle - Not much is known about the death of Edgar Allen Poe. One of the greatest literary minds was found in a stupor on the side of the road in Baltimore. EDGAR’S GHOST imagines that in those final moments, while he lay dying in the hospital, he is visited by his creations. The Raven. The Tell-Tale Heart. The Black Cat. Hop-Frog. And we certainly can’t forget Virginia, his lovely cousin-bride. Was she the fabled Lenore? Or was Lenore another woman? QUILT: A Musical Celebration December 1 - 6 Music by Michael Stockler, Lyrics by Jim Morgan - Few who have seen the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt can ever forget the experience or the powerful emotions evoked by this patchwork of panels celebrating the memory of a friend or family member who has died of this terrible scourge. This series of stories for, from and about the Quilt is threaded together by a volunteer’s experience while making a panel in memory of a friend. In monologues and songs that bring the audience through the full range of emotions, QUILT, A MUSICAL CELEBRATION commemorates the victims and survivors of this disease and the ones left behind. Children’s Theater, Original Works and Workshops also available! Check out our website for updated information and upcoming events! www.rcgtheater.com
I have been working like mad, tweaking all of my sites. I am finally content on what designs I have settled with. I will update them more over the weekend. I will also be working on my e-commerce site also.Check it out:www.kristineknowlton.comAnd now also on iFreelance.com for web design and graphics at:www.ifreelance.com/pro/52645
Nim’s Distress was inspired by the movie, ’Nim’s Island’. It’s very soothing and I love the way it sounds on the Lap Harp. I have really been inspired the past couple of days.
Being creative yesterday, I came up with an awesome tune on the Violin, called ’Gypsy Down’. The inspiration was the sound it’s self. Just listening to it, it feels as though it has a story of a Gypsy who has done something wrong and is being scolded at. More to come...
This is the intro that I have recorded from the television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I did the background music for the demo.
Yet another oldie that I dug up - Enjoy!
Castle on a Cloud from Les Miserables There is a castle on a cloud I like to go there in my sleep Aren't any floors for me to sweep Not in my castle on a cloud.There is a room that's full of toys There are a hundred boys and girls Nobody shouts or talks too loud Not in my castle on a cloud.
There is a lady all in white Holds me and sings a lullaby She's nice to see, and she's soft to touch She says: 'Cosette I love you very much.'
I know a place where no one's lost I know a place where no one cries Crying at all is not allowed Not in my castle on a cloud.
I dug up an oldie....hope ya like it!
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again Phantom of the Opera
You were once my one companion . . . you were all that mattered . . . You were once a friend and father - then my world was shattered . . .
Wishing you were somehow here again . . . wishing you were somehow near . . . Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed, somehow you would be here . . .
Wishing I could hear your voice again . . . knowing that I never would . . . Dreaming of you won't help me to do all that you dreamed I could . . .
Passing bells and sculpted angels, cold and monumental, seem, for you, the wrong companions - you were warm and gentle . . .
Too many years fighting back tears . . . Why can't the past just die . . .?
Wishing you were somehow here again . . . knowing we must say goodbye . . . Try to forgive . . . teach me to live . . . give me the strength to try . . .
No more memories, no more silent tears . . . No more gazing across the wasted years . . . Help me say goodbye.
Lyrics:
(Johnny Jump Up Tune)
Well, I'll tell you a story that happened to me,
One day as I went down to the cemetery
The moon it was bright and the night it was dark
Says, I was real scared when I heard a wolf's bark
Chorus:
But I'll never, no never, no never again
If I live to be a hundred-and-ten
I fell to the ground, right into the stew,
After drinking a cauldron of witches brew
Well, I fell to the ground, this witch was untrue .
This was my fortune of Witches Brew.
After drinking a Cauldron of cider so sweet,
I took a big swig and danced on me feet
Chorus
Well the clock it struck midnight, the moon it was high
Vampires bite and the ghosts they do fly
Wizards and Zombies my eyes sure did grew
Why oh why then did I ask for more brew
(Chorus X2)
Lyrics:
(The Mermaid Tune)
T’was Friday night, when we set flight
And we were not so far from the land,
When a spirit he spied
A pretty little witch,
With a broom and a wand in her hand
Chorus:
And the cauldron does boil,
And the spells are brewing too
And we fine witches go dancing in the night
While the dead lay down below, below, below
While the dead lay down below
Then up spoke the Vampire of this bloody ship
And a scary ‘ol one was he
Said, ‘I have a victim back in London by the sea
And tonight she’ll be bleeding for me!’
Chorus
Then up spoke the Ghost of this ghoulish ship
And a spooky ghost was he
Says, ‘I care more for me haunts and for me grave
Then I do for the bottom of the cauldron!’
Chorus
Then three spells cast, spun our spooky world
And three spells cast spun she
Yes, three spells cast spun our spooky world
As we sank to the bottom of the cauldron
Chorus
Lyrics:
(Tune of Wild Rover)
I've been a wild Vampire for many a year,
And I spent all my hauntings on victims with blood,
But now I've returned with fright and great scares,
And I never will play the wild Vampire no more.
Chorus:
And it's no, nay, never
No, nay, never, no more,
Well I’ve played the wild Vampire
No never, no more.
I went down to an abbey I used to frequent,
And I told the high priestess my soul was then spent.
I offered her blood, but she answered me "Nay.
Such custom like yours I could have any night."
Chorus
I went back to the graveyard, confess what I’ve done
And I hid in the dark to hide from the sun
If light embraces me, I will be no more
And I never will play the wild Vampire no more
Chorus
Lyrics:
(Tune of Scarborough Faire)
Are you going to Scarborough Scare?
Darkness, cold, no light and scary.
Through the trees and over the graves,
Then you will be a victim of mine.
Make the stars shine throughout the night.
Darkness, cold, no light and scary.
Take my hand and you will soon see
The dark light that has embraced me.
Ghost fly low as the moon does to rise.
Darkness, cold, no light and scary.
Over the rooftops and tree branches do fly.
Then this will be a haunting of mine.
Have you gone to Scarborough Scare?
Darkness, cold, no light and scary.
Through the trees and over the graves,
Then you have been a victim of mine.
Lyrics:
(Waly, Waly tune)
The graveyard is dark, I cannot cross o’er
And neither have I wings to fly
But give me a bat, that can carry two
And both shall fly, my love and I
There is a ghost, that haunts the tree
It’s loaded deep as deep can be
But not as deep as the fright I’m in
I care not if I scream and shriek
Oh the graveyard is dark and scary too
My love is gone like morning dew
I long for light and warmer winds
And my true love safe in my view
Oh the graveyard is dark, I cannot cross o’er
And neither have I wings to fly
But when my soul returns to me
Ne’er shall we part eternally
Lyrics:
(Tune of Loch Lomond)
By yon creepy banks and by yon spooky braes,
Where the moon shines bright on my coffin
Where me and my true love will never meet again,
On the bloody, bloody banks of the graveyard.
Chorus: You take the high road and I'll take the low road.
I'll be insane before Ye.
For me and my true love will never meet again
On the bloody, bloody banks of the graveyard.
The wee bats fly, And the wild flowers die,
And in moonlight the waters weeping.
But the broken heart it bleeds, Nae second life again,
Though the sorrow may cease from my greeting.
Chorus
Lyrics:
(Drunken Sailor Tune)
What do you do with a creepy spirit?
What do you do with a creepy spirit?
What do you do with a creepy spirit,
Earl-aye in the moonlight?
Chorus:
Way hey an’ up he rises,
Way hey an’ up he rises,
Way hey an’ up he rises,
Earl-aye in the moonlight.
Put him in the village and make him haunt it…
Put him in the village and make him haunt it…
Put him in the village and make him haunt it…
Earl-aye in the moonlight.
Chorus
Make him fly around until he’s dizzy…
Make him fly around until he’s dizzy…
Make him fly around until he’s dizzy…
Earl-aye in the moonlight.
Chorus:
Take him back to the cemetery…
Take him back to the cemetery…
Take him back to the cemetery…
Earl-aye in the moonlight.
Chorus
And that’s what you do with a creepy spirit!
That’s what you do with a creepy spirit!
That’s what you do with a creepy spirit!
Earl-aye in the moonlight!
Lyrics:
(A Lass You Don’t Meet Everyday tune)
My name is untrue. I'm a proud flying ghost,
And a scary young soul that I've been.
Chorus:
So be easy and free
When you're flyin' with me.
I'm a ghost you don't meet everyday.
I'm a spirit by trade
And a ramblin’ maid
And a many a games that I’ve played
(chorus)
I'm a rovin' young soul
And a wanderin' young lass
I'm chock full of blarney and brass.
(chorus)
Along with my friends,
I go out for to haunt
All along the road they call spook way.
(chorus)
So come fill up your goblet
With brandy and wine...
Whatever it costs he will pay.
(chorus)
I'm a ghost you don't meet everyday.