68-465: Joanna Murray-Smith (born 17 April 1962) is an Australian playwright, screenwriter, novelist, librettist , and newspaper columnist. Joanna Murray-Smith was born on 17 April 1962 in Mount Eliza, Victoria . Her father was the literary editor and academic Stephen Murray-Smith (1922–1988), and her uncle was the actor John Bluthal . She attended Toorak College and graduated with a BA (Hons) from
136-658: A Teen Choice Award and two Blockbuster Entertainment Awards . As a professional wrestler, he is best known for his panned 2000 stint in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) where he won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship , headlining the Slamboree pay-per-view event, and appearing in WWE and on the independent wrestling circuit . Arquette rose to recognition with roles in films such as Buffy
204-473: A Triple Cage match , the same match featured in the climax of Ready to Rumble . In the end, he turned on Page and gave the victory to Jarrett. After Slamboree, Arquette cut a promo on the May 8 episode of Nitro , explaining that his entire friendship with Page and title run was a " swerve ". Page subsequently ran down to the ring and hit him with a Diamond Cutter . Arquette made one final appearance with WCW at
272-619: A sabbatical in Italy. Many of Murray-Smith's plays have been performed around the world. Honour has been produced in more than three dozen countries, including productions on Broadway and at the Royal National Theatre in London . Honour was created in 1995 when Murray-Smith was studying in the writing program at Columbia University in New York. There, the play's first public appearance
340-537: A singles match on the April 24 episode of Nitro . On the following episode of Thunder , Arquette teamed with Page in a match against Bischoff and Jeff Jarrett , with the stipulation that whichever man got the pin would take the championship . Arquette pinned Bischoff again in the match's finish, winning the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in the process. During his time as champion, Arquette
408-452: A steel chair . In another portion of the show, Arquette was seen backstage trembling in fear and attempting to "give back" the championship belt . However, he did successfully defend the title against Tank Abbott with help from Page. Arquette held the title for 12 days until the Slamboree pay-per-view on May 7, 2000, when he was booked to defend the championship against Jarrett and Page in
476-606: A 3D psychological thriller . The film began shooting in July 2011 in Canada. Arquette appeared on the 13th season of Dancing with the Stars , partnered with two-time champion Kym Johnson . He was eliminated on November 1, 2011. On October 7, 2013, Arquette's new show Dream School , in which he plays a mentor to high risk kids in L.A., premiered on the Sundance Channel. In 2017, he starred in
544-631: A Hotel, Evening have all had staged readings or productions at the annual New York Stage and Film Festival at Vassar College . Scenes from a Marriage was performed in January 2008 at the Belgrade Theatre , Coventry , directed by Trevor Nunn , with Iain Glen and Imogen Stubbs . Nunn recast the production for its West End season at the St James Theatre in 2013; Olivia Williams and Mark Bazeley played
612-473: A double Superkick. In June 2021, Arquette announced he was retiring as a wrestler. His last match was on 31 July 2021, teaming with A Little Angry Tree defeating Whopper Texas Ranger for Wrestling Pro Wrestling in Burbank, California. On April 23, 2023, Arquette appeared on AEW's internet television show Hey! (EW) . In May 2007, Image Comics (in conjunction with Raw Studios) published David Arquette's
680-478: A father who occasionally had issues with substance abuse . Their mother died of breast cancer . Arquette appeared in a number of films in the 1990s, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Airheads (1994) and Never Been Kissed (1999). He had guest spots on television shows like Blossom (1992), Beverly Hills, 90210 (1992) and Friends (1996). Arquette achieved his biggest success in
748-443: A highly successful play by its librettist, Gabriele D'Annunzio , a celebrated Italian poet, novelist and dramatist of the day. In some cases, the operatic adaptation has become more famous than the literary text on which it was based, as with Claude Debussy 's Pelléas et Mélisande after a play by Maurice Maeterlinck . The question of which is more important in opera – the music or the words – has been debated over time, and forms
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#1732859217146816-530: A part of Washington's Red Museum and recorded "Post Empire" with the band, which was released in 2011. Arquette is part owner of Bootsy Bellows, an exclusive nightclub in Los Angeles. The club is named for Arquette's mother, a burlesque dancer who performed by that name. Arquette married his Scream co-star Courteney Cox on June 12, 1999. They have a daughter, Coco Arquette, born in June 2004. Jennifer Aniston
884-557: A puppeteer and actor. Arquette's paternal grandfather was comedian Cliff Arquette . Arquette's mother was Jewish (from a family that emigrated from Poland ) while his father was a convert from Roman Catholicism to Islam ; through him, David is distantly related to explorer Meriwether Lewis . His father, whose family's surname was originally Arcouet, was partly of French-Canadian descent. Arquette's four siblings, Rosanna , Richmond, Patricia , and Alexis , all became actors as well. The Arquettes had an unusual upbringing, with
952-749: A severe cut in the neck, causing him to bleed profusely. After the match, he went to a hospital and was operated on. Arquette later stated that he was done with deathmatches. On May 23, 2019, Arquette made his debut on Being the Elite , where he attempted to convince Nick and Matt Jackson to allow him to enter the Over the Budget Battle Royal at All Elite Wrestling 's (AEW) Double or Nothing event. Neither of them recognized him at first, however they eventually recalled his WCW World Heavyweight Championship reign but still refused to let him compete, instead, giving him
1020-445: A subject and developing a sketch of the action in the form of a scenario , as well as revisions that might come about when the work is in production, as with out-of-town tryouts for Broadway musicals, or changes made for a specific local audience. A famous case of the latter is Wagner's 1861 revision of the original 1845 Dresden version of his opera Tannhäuser for Paris. The opera libretto from its inception ( c. 1600 )
1088-538: Is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as the Mass , requiem and sacred cantata, or the story line of a ballet . The Italian word libretto ( pronounced [liˈbretto] , plural libretti [liˈbretti] ) is the diminutive of the word libro ("book"). Sometimes other-language equivalents are used for libretti in that language, livret for French works, Textbuch for German and libreto for Spanish. A libretto
1156-462: Is distinct from a synopsis or scenario of the plot, in that the libretto contains all the words and stage directions, while a synopsis summarizes the plot. Some ballet historians also use the word libretto to refer to the 15- to 40-page books which were on sale to 19th century ballet audiences in Paris and contained a very detailed description of the ballet's story, scene by scene. The relationship of
1224-588: Is greatly different from the Edna Ferber novel from which it was adapted , uses some of Ferber's original dialogue, notably during the miscegenation scene. And Lionel Bart 's Oliver! uses chunks of dialogue from Charles Dickens 's novel Oliver Twist , although it bills itself as a "free adaptation" of the novel. As the originating language of opera, Italian dominated that genre in Europe (except in France) well through
1292-521: Is her godmother . On October 11, 2010, the media announced that Arquette and Cox were having a trial separation, but "still love each other deeply." In June 2012, Arquette filed for divorce after nearly two years of separation from Cox. The divorce became final in May 2013. He started dating Entertainment Tonight correspondent Christina McLarty in 2011. They announced they were expecting their first child together in November 2013. McLarty gave birth to
1360-419: Is not always written before the music. Some composers, such as Mikhail Glinka , Alexander Serov , Rimsky-Korsakov , Puccini and Mascagni wrote passages of music without text and subsequently had the librettist add words to the vocal melody lines (this has often been the case with American popular song and musicals in the 20th century, as with Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart 's collaboration, although with
1428-532: The New Blood Rising pay-per-view on August 13, when he interfered in a match between Buff Bagwell and Kanyon . Arquette was against the idea of becoming the WCW World Heavyweight Champion, believing that fans like himself would detest a non-wrestler winning the title. Vince Russo , who was the head booker for WCW at the time, insisted that Arquette becoming the champion would be good for
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#17328592171461496-636: The Sega video game ESPN NFL 2K5 , voicing himself as a "celebrity adversary" and manager of his own team, the Los Angeles Locos, as well as appearing as an unlockable character in Season Mode. He also appeared in the 2001 EA video game SSX Tricky , as the voice of lead character Eddie. He also starred in See Spot Run in 2001. Arquette starred in the 2007 ABC comedy series In Case of Emergency , which
1564-646: The Sydney Theatre Company and Canberra Theatre Centre , premiered at the Sydney Opera House . The play, a one-woman drama about Julia Gillard , Australia's first female prime minister, then went on to seasons in Melbourne and Canberra . The play begins and ends with Gillard's powerful misogyny speech to parliament in 2012 and details Gillard's early life and her pathway to power. Directed by Sarah Goodes and starring Justine Clarke and Jessica Bentley,
1632-451: The Sydney Theatre Company , her work and that of other Australian writers, e.g., David Williamson 's, is insufficiently supported. Librettist A libretto (From the Italian word libretto , lit. ' booklet ' ) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera , operetta , masque , oratorio , cantata or musical . The term libretto
1700-512: The University of Melbourne . On a Rotary International Scholarship in 1995, Murray-Smith attended the writing program at Columbia University , New York. In 2000 she was awarded a Commonwealth Medal for Services to Playwriting and in 2012 she was made a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She is married to Raymond Gill and has two sons and one daughter. In 2003, she took
1768-422: The aria " Nessun dorma " from Puccini's Turandot , the final lines in the libretto are "Tramontate, stelle! All'alba, vincerò!" (Fade, you stars! At dawn, I will win!). However, in the score they are sung as "Tramontate, stelle! Tramontate, stelle! All'alba, vincerò! Vincerò! Vincerò!". Because the modern musical tends to be published in two separate but intersecting formats (i.e., the book and lyrics, with all
1836-579: The horror / slasher film franchise Scream . It was during the filming of the first film in 1996 that he first met his future wife, Courteney Cox . The couple married in 1999; together, they appeared in a 2003 advertisement for Coke and formed the production company Coquette (both a portmanteau of their last names and a word meaning a flirty woman ), which has produced a number of films and television series, including Daisy Does America , Dirt and Cougar Town . Arquette guest starred alongside Cox on Cougar Town in 2012. Arquette appeared in
1904-431: The librettist (that is, the writer of a libretto) to the composer in the creation of a musical work has varied over the centuries, as have the sources and the writing techniques employed. In the context of a modern English-language musical theatre piece, the libretto is considered to encompass both the book of the work (i.e., the spoken dialogue) and the sung lyrics. Libretti for operas, oratorios and cantatas in
1972-415: The public domain ) this format is supplemented with melodic excerpts of musical notation for important numbers. Printed scores for operas naturally contain the entire libretto, although there can exist significant differences between the score and the separately printed text. More often than not, this involves the extra repetition of words or phrases from the libretto in the actual score. For example, in
2040-463: The 17th and 18th centuries were generally written by someone other than the composer, often a well-known poet. Pietro Trapassi , known as Metastasio (1698–1782) was one of the most highly regarded librettists in Europe. His libretti were set many times by many different composers. Another noted 18th-century librettist was Lorenzo Da Ponte . He wrote the libretti for three of Mozart 's greatest operas, and for many other composers as well. Eugène Scribe
2108-602: The 18th century, and even into the next century in Russia, for example, when the Italian opera troupe in Saint Petersburg was challenged by the emerging native Russian repertory. Significant exceptions before 1800 can be found in Purcell 's works, Handel 's first operas, ballad opera and Singspiel of the 18th century, etc. Just as with literature and song, the libretto has its share of problems and challenges with translation . In
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2176-886: The Highsmith role. The play was also produced at the Melbourne Theatre Company, the Queensland Theatre Company, the State Theatre Company of South Australia and Black Swan Theatre, Perth. It has been produced in numerous productions in Germany, Denmark and Switzerland. In 2019 it played an off-Broadway season at 59E59 Theaters in New York City. Its UK premiere was in 2018 at the Theatre Royal, Bath , starring Phyllis Logan as Highsmith. The production moved to
2244-461: The Internet and that he wanted people to have respect for his name in professional wrestling. He began training with professional wrestler Peter Avalon for his return. On July 15, 2018, Arquette made his return to professional wrestling making his debut for Championship Wrestling from Hollywood (CWFH) in a losing effort against RJ City . On October 6, 2018, Arquette teamed with RJ City to defeat
2312-461: The Lilacs , Carousel used dialogue from Ferenc Molnár 's Liliom , My Fair Lady took most of its dialogue word-for-word from George Bernard Shaw 's Pygmalion , Man of La Mancha was adapted from the 1959 television play I, Don Quixote , which supplied most of the dialogue, and the 1954 musical version of Peter Pan used J. M. Barrie 's dialogue. Even the musical Show Boat , which
2380-537: The Never Land Pirates (2011–2016). He executive produced the game show Celebrity Name Game (2014–2017), for which he received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. Arquette was born in a Subud commune in Bentonville, Virginia . He is the youngest child of Brenda "Mardi" Olivia (née Nowak), an actress, burlesque dancer, poet, theatre operator, activist, acting teacher, and therapist, and Lewis Arquette ,
2448-480: The Roof has a composer ( Jerry Bock ), a lyricist ( Sheldon Harnick ) and the writer of the "book" ( Joseph Stein ). In rare cases, the composer writes everything except the dance arrangements – music, lyrics and libretto, as Lionel Bart did for Oliver! . Other matters in the process of developing a libretto parallel those of spoken dramas for stage or screen. There are the preliminary steps of selecting or suggesting
2516-549: The Tripper , which was adapted for the comic book medium by artist Nat Jones and writer Joe Harris , with whom Arquette shared writing duties. Propr Collection is a clothing line run by Arquette and Ben Harper . Arquette was briefly in a band by the name of Ear2000, who contributed a song to the Scream 2 soundtrack and Scream 3 soundtrack . The group, whose style blended hip hop and rock, has since broken up. Arquette has also been
2584-458: The Vampire Slayer (1992), Wild Bill (1995), Never Been Kissed (1999), See Spot Run (2001), and Eight Legged Freaks (2002). He directed, wrote, and produced the film The Tripper (2006), and has additionally produced the films Just Before I Go (2014) and 12 Hour Shift (2020). His television credits include CBS ' Double Rush (1995), ABC 's In Case of Emergency (2007), and Disney Channel 's animated series Jake and
2652-598: The West End in November 2018 at the Ambassadors Theatre . Murray-Smith's 2010 one-woman play written for Bernadette Robinson , Songs for Nobodies , opened immediately after Switzerland at the same theatre in January 2019 and marked Robinson's West End debut. The show was nominated for an Olivier award. Songs for Nobodies has toured Australian cities starring Robinson three times since its 2010 premiere production. The play's first production featuring another performer in
2720-472: The basis of at least two operas, Richard Strauss 's Capriccio and Antonio Salieri 's Prima la musica e poi le parole . Libretti have been made available in several formats, some more nearly complete than others. The text – i.e., the spoken dialogue, song lyrics and stage directions, as applicable – is commonly published separately from the music (such a booklet is usually included with sound recordings of most operas). Sometimes (particularly for operas in
2788-558: The company and for publicity, and Arquette reluctantly agreed to the angle. All the money he made during his WCW tenure was donated to the families of Owen Hart (who died in a freak accident), Brian Pillman (who died from an undiagnosed heart condition), and Darren Drozdov (who became a quadriplegic after an in-ring accident). After the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment (WWF/WWE) purchased WCW, Arquette's championship run
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2856-470: The composer (past or present) of the musical score to an opera or operetta is usually given top billing for the completed work, and the writer of the lyrics relegated to second place or a mere footnote, a notable exception being Gertrude Stein , who received top billing for Four Saints in Three Acts . Another exception was Alberto Franchetti 's 1906 opera La figlia di Iorio which was a close rendering of
2924-549: The composer. In some 17th-century operas still being performed, the name of the librettist was not even recorded. As the printing of libretti for sale at performances became more common, these records often survive better than music left in manuscript. But even in late 18th century London, reviews rarely mentioned the name of the librettist, as Lorenzo Da Ponte lamented in his memoirs. By the 20th century some librettists became recognised as part of famous collaborations, as with Gilbert and Sullivan or Rodgers and Hammerstein . Today
2992-576: The couple's son in 2014. The couple announced their engagement in July 2014. They were married on April 12, 2015. McLarty gave birth to their second son in 2017. Arquette checked into a rehabilitation center for treatment of "alcohol and other issues" on January 1, 2011. On April 8, 2011, Arquette announced on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that he had reached the 100-day sober milestone. Later that year, Arquette said he has been sober for over nine months. In June 2012, while in Israel to film an episode of
3060-501: The fact that the then-WWF itself briefly booked Vince McMahon as WWF Champion months before Arquette's title win. On the December 13, 2010, episode of Raw , Arquette made his WWE debut by teaming with Alex Riley in a handicap match against Randy Orton , which they lost. In 2018, during an interview on The Wendy Williams Show , Arquette said that, in the years following his controversial WCW title win, he had been trolled on
3128-521: The later team of Rodgers and Hammerstein the lyrics were generally written first, which was Rodgers' preferred modus operandi). Some composers wrote their own libretti. Richard Wagner is perhaps most famous in this regard, with his transformations of Germanic legends and events into epic subjects for his operas and music dramas. Hector Berlioz , too, wrote the libretti for two of his best-known works, La damnation de Faust and Les Troyens . Alban Berg adapted Georg Büchner 's play Woyzeck for
3196-424: The libretto of Wozzeck . Sometimes the libretto is written in close collaboration with the composer; this can involve adaptation, as was the case with Rimsky-Korsakov and his librettist Vladimir Belsky , or an entirely original work. In the case of musicals, the music, the lyrics and the "book" (i.e., the spoken dialogue and the stage directions) may each have its own author. Thus, a musical such as Fiddler on
3264-402: The lyrics of the arias , duets , trios and choruses written in verse. The libretto of a musical, on the other hand, is almost always written in prose (except for the song lyrics). The libretto of a musical, if the musical is adapted from a play (or even a novel), may even borrow their source's original dialogue liberally – much as Oklahoma! used dialogue from Lynn Riggs 's Green Grow
3332-442: The old Betty Grable – Don Ameche – Carmen Miranda vehicles, are largely unaffected, but this practice is especially misleading in translations of musicals like Show Boat , The Wizard of Oz , My Fair Lady or Carousel , in which the lyrics to the songs and the spoken text are often or always closely integrated, and the lyrics serve to further the plot. Availability of printed or projected translations today makes singing in
3400-471: The original language more practical, although one cannot discount the desire to hear a sung drama in one's own language. The Spanish words libretista (playwright, script writer or screenwriter) and libreto (script or screen play), which are used in the Hispanic TV and cinema industry, derived their meanings from the original operatic sense. Librettists have historically received less prominent credit than
3468-629: The past (and even today), foreign musical stage works with spoken dialogue, especially comedies, were sometimes performed with the sung portions in the original language and the spoken dialogue in the vernacular. The effects of leaving lyrics untranslated depend on the piece. A man like Louis Durdilly would translate the whole libretto, dialogues and airs, into French: Così fan tutte became Ainsi font toutes, ou la Fidélité des femmes , and instead of Ferrando singing "Un' aura amorosa" French-speaking audiences were treated to Fernand singing "Ma belle est fidèle autant qu'elle est belle". Many musicals, such as
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#17328592171463536-751: The production played in Melbourne and Canberra in mid-2024, and was presented by the State Theatre Company South Australia in Adelaide in August 2024. The plays and novels of Murray-Smith have been translated and performed widely around the world. According to the Australia Council , Murray-Smith and Daniel Keene account for half of all foreign productions of Australian plays. However, Murray-Smith feels that within Australia, and especially at
3604-548: The reboot of Sigmund and the Sea Monsters as Captain Barnabus. In May 2020, it was confirmed that Arquette would be reprising his role as Dewey Riley for the fifth Scream film , which was directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett . The film was released on January 14, 2022. Arquette has appeared on The Howard Stern Show many times, including multiple times as the show's celebrity intern. Arquette purchased
3672-656: The rights to Bozo the Clown in 2021 and has plans to revive the character. In 2000, after filming the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) film Ready to Rumble , Arquette was brought into WCW storylines . He made his first appearance on the April 12, 2000, episode of Thunder , sitting in the crowd before leaping into the ring to take part in a worked confrontation with Eric Bischoff and his New Blood stable . Afterwards, he formed an alliance with Chris Kanyon and then reigning WCW World Heavyweight Champion Diamond Dallas Page , and with their help, he defeated Bischoff in
3740-568: The role was in New Zealand in 2017 and 2018 when Ali Harper performed the play. Its US premiere at Milwaukee Rep in 2018 starred Bethany Thomas, wh performed the role at the Northlight Theatre in Chicago in May 2020. Murray-Smith made her directorial debut when Queensland Theatre produced her 2019 comedy L'Appartement . In 2023, a production of Julia , written by Murray-Smith and produced by
3808-571: The role. Its West End performance took place at Wyndham's Theatre in 2006 with Diana Rigg , Martin Jarvis , and Natascha McElhone . The play was remounted in London in 2018 at the Park Theatre, starring Henry Goodman and Imogen Stubbs in the lead roles. Ridge's Lovers was performed in New York under the direction of Brian Leahy Doyle. Honour , Nightfall , Rapture , Ninety , Fury and Day One,
3876-454: The team of Halal Beefcake (Idris Abraham and Joe Coleman) in a tag team match at Border City Wrestling 's 25th Anniversary show in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The event was filmed by Impact Wrestling to air as a One Night Only pay-per-view in November 2018. On November 16, 2018, Arquette wrestled Nick Gage in a deathmatch at Joey Janela 's LA Confidential event. During the match, he suffered
3944-558: The travel show Trippin , Arquette belatedly celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at the Western Wall . The presiding rabbi was Shmuel Rabinovitch . The band the Black Math Experiment released "You Cannot Kill David Arquette", a tongue in cheek song about Arquette's acting and wrestling career. Arquette himself helped promote the band on MTV's Total Request Live and during his promotional tour for The Tripper . He also used
4012-587: The warring couple. The adaptation was produced in Australia at Queensland Theatre in 2017 starring Marta Dusseldorp and her husband Ben Winspear . The Female of the Species , based on events in the life of Germaine Greer , opened in the West End at the Vaudeville Theatre in July 2008, directed by Roger Michell and starring Eileen Atkins . A Broadway production, originally planned for 2008 with Annette Bening
4080-422: The words, and the piano-vocal score, with all the musical material, including some spoken cues), both are needed in order to make a thorough reading of an entire show. David Arquette David Arquette (born September 8, 1971) is an American actor, producer, and retired professional wrestler . As an actor, he is known for playing Dewey Riley in the slasher franchise Scream (1996–2022), which won him
4148-543: Was canceled after one season. Since then, he has appeared in the 2008 film Hamlet 2 and reprised his role in Scream 4 , again acting alongside Cox. He appeared alongside his sister in the TV show Medium in January 2011. He appeared in Rascal Flatts ' music video for their song "Why Wait" in 2010. Arquette, a well known horror fan, made his directorial debut with 2007's The Tripper and has signed on to direct Glutton ,
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#17328592171464216-525: Was commissioned by the Geffen Theatre in Los Angeles but by arrangement with the Sydney Theatre Company artistic directors Andrew Upton and Cate Blanchett had its world premiere production at the Sydney Theatre Company starring Sarah Peirse as Patricia Highsmith in 2014. A new production of Switzerland was produced at the Geffen Theatre in 2015 directed by Mark Brokaw and starred Laura Linney in
4284-540: Was in a reading with Meryl Streep , Sam Waterston , and Kyra Sedgwick . The play was then performed at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway in 1998 with Jane Alexander , Robert Foxworth , Laura Linney and Enid Graham; it earned Tony Award nominations for Alexander and Graham. It was performed at London's Royal National Theatre with Eileen Atkins who won best actress in the Laurence Olivier Awards for
4352-401: Was listed as the top reason for the "failure" of Nitro in a list published by WWE Magazine . Gene Okerlund stated in a 2009 interview on WCW's history that "once Arquette won the title, it might as well been thrown in the trash" due to losing what little credibility it had left at that point, and Arquette's reign as champion has been criticized in other WWE media in the years since, despite
4420-482: Was mostly used as comic relief . He only appeared on two shows as champion, the May 1 Nitro and May 7 Slamboree pay-per-view. During the former, a vignette was shown, filmed on the set of Arquette's film 3000 Miles to Graceland , which also featured his wife Courteney Cox and their co-star Kurt Russell . In the vignette, Cox informs Russell that Arquette is the WCW World Heavyweight Champion, causing Russell to laugh and walk off and Arquette to chase after him with
4488-536: Was one of the most prolific librettists of the 19th century, providing the words for works by Meyerbeer (with whom he had a lasting collaboration), Auber , Bellini , Donizetti , Rossini and Verdi . The French writers' duo Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy wrote many opera and operetta libretti for the likes of Jacques Offenbach , Jules Massenet and Georges Bizet . Arrigo Boito , who wrote libretti for, among others, Giuseppe Verdi and Amilcare Ponchielli , also composed two operas of his own. The libretto
4556-572: Was postponed. It was nominated for Best New Comedy in the 2009 Olivier Awards. In February and March 2010, the play was staged at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles with David Arquette and Bening. Charles Isherwood of The New York Times wrote about this production: " The Female of the Species is not just antifeminist. In its depiction of women as variously pompous, deluded, self-obsessed, hypocritical, sexually obsequious or just plain crazy, it comes closer to being antifemale." Switzerland
4624-489: Was written in verse, and this continued well into the 19th century, although genres of musical theatre with spoken dialogue have typically alternated verse in the musical numbers with spoken prose. Since the late 19th century some opera composers have written music to prose or free verse libretti. Much of the recitatives of George Gershwin 's opera Porgy and Bess , for instance, are merely DuBose and Dorothy Heyward 's play Porgy set to music as written – in prose – with
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