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YOU MAKE MY FRAME SHAKE!

(12 Love Comedies Set at The Met)

8 one act comedies, 4 Monologues

Click here to link to see A Powerpoint of the Artwork in the Play

(All photos of Art work taken by Luigi Jannuzzi.
All images are of works pre 1922.)

ACT ONE Part I: Another Misguided Tour *

THE HEART OF THE ANDES, 1859 By: Frederic Edwin Church. ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
ROCKY MOUNTAINS, LANDER'S PEAK, By: Albert Bierstadt, 1863 ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.

SCENE ONE: LUSTING AFTER MONET

CAMILLE MONET ON A GARDEN BENCH, 1873 By: Claude Monet****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art painting for more information.
JEAN MONET ON HIS HOBBY HORSE, 1872 By: Claude Monet ****Click Here to link to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for more information.

SCENE TWO: TRAY PICKER-UPPER IN THE MET CAFE

A WAITRESS AT DUVAL'S RESTAURANT, 1875. By: August Renoir****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art painting for more information.

Part II: Another Misguided Tour *

SIYOTANKA (Sioux Courting flute from Catlinite), 1900, named for George Catlin ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.

SCENE THREE: DATING ROMAN ART

"DATING ROMAN ART" includes: The Marble statue of a youthful Hercules, Early Imperial Flavian Period, 69–96 A.D. Culture: Roman ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
"DATING ROMAN ART" includes: Atlas Supporting the Globe, ca.1780, French, Sculpture ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
"DATING ROMAN ART" includes: Bronze Statuette of Neptune, Early Imperial 1st Century A.D. Bronze, Culture: Roman ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
"DATING ROMAN ART" includes: Marble Statue of a Girl, 1st or 2nd Century A.D., Imperial Period. Culture: Roman ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
"DATING ROMAN ART" includes: Marble Statue of a Wounded Amazon, 1st or 2nd Century A.D., Imperial Period. Cultre: Roman ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
"DATING ROMAN ART" includes: Marble Sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons, Late Imperial Gallienic Period, Culture: Roman, ca A.D. 260-270. ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
"DATING ROMAN ART" contain Three Headless Statues, Roman, Early Imperial, 1st to 2nd Century A. D. ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information on STATUE OF A SEATED MAN (Image on left)
"DATING ROMAN ART" includes: Bronze Chariot Inlaid With Ivory, 2nd Quarter of the 6th Century B.C., Etruscan. ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
"DATING ROMAN ART" includes Bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer, 3rd to 2nd Century B.C. Hellenistic Period, Culture: Greek. Bronze. ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.

SCENE FOUR: TWO CHILDREN TEASING A CAT *

TWO CHILDREN TEASING A CAT, Italian, 1587-88, By: Annibale Carracci **Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art painting for more information.
"Two Children Teasing A Cat" includes THE ABDUCTION OF THE SABINE WOMEN, ca. 1633–34. BY: Nicolas Poussin. Click here for a link to: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art painting and more information.
"Two Children Teasing A Cat" includes: "A Hypocrite and a Slanderer" The Franz Xaver Messerschmidt sculpture, 1770-83. *** Click here for a link to: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art and more information.
"Two Children Teasing A Cat" includes: "The Rabbit Hunters" By: Thomas Hewes Hinckley, 1850. *** Click here for a link to: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art painting and more information.
"Two Children Teasing A Cat" includes: "The Unicorn Is Attacked - From The Unicorn Tapestries," South Netherlands, 1495 - 1505. *** Click here for a link to: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art and more information.
UNICORNS (LEGEND-SEA CALM), 1906, By: Arthur B. Davies ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
"Two Children Teasing A Cat" includes: "Salome With The Head Of Saint John The Baptist" By: Andrea Solario, Italian, Milan, 1507-09 *** Click here for a link to: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art painting and more information.
"Two Children Teasing A Cat" includes a reference to "Cannibal Art." CLICK HERE to read an article on cannibal art at the Met! Or Google "Cannibal art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art" and hit Images.

SCENE FIVE: STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU

ANTIONE-LAURENT LAVAOISIER and HIS WIFE, Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze,
    1788 By: Jacques-Louis David ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
RUINS OF THE TUILERIES PALACE, 1871, By: Isidore Alexandre Augustin Pils. CLICK HERE to link to The Metropolitan Museum of Art for more information
THE GARDEN OF THE TUILERIES ON A SPRING MORNING, 1899, by Camille Pissarro. CLICK HERE to link to The Metropolitan Museum of Art for more information.
SEVERED HEAD, SAID TO BE THAT OF MAXIMILIEN-FRANCOIS-MARIE-ISIDORE de ROBESPIERRE, 1794 ***Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
MADAME ELISABETH de FRANCE, 1787, ***Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art picture for more information.
THE DEATH OF SOCRATES, 1787 By: Jacques-Louis David ***Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.

Part III: Another Misguided Tour *

BIRD OF WASHINGTON, After John James Audubon, 1827 ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.

SCENE SIX: ANOTHER FERTILITY GOD FUGUE

"Another Fertility God Fugue" includes SEATED COUPLE, 18 - early 19th c. Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art picture for more information.
"Another Fertility God Fugue" includes MOTHER AND CHILD, 15th -20th c. Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art picture for more information.

*******INTERMISSION*******


ACT TWO SCENE ONE: BROKEN EGGS

BROKEN EGGS, 1756 By: Jean Baptiste Greuze ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art painting for more information.

Part IV: Another Misguided Tour *

VIEW FROM MOUNT HOLYOKE, NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A THUNDERSTORM- THE OXBOW, By: Thomas Cole, 1836.****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.

SCENE TWO: HERE SPHINXIE, SPHINXIE

ARISTOTLE WITH A BUST OF HOMER, 1653 By: Rembrandt ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1864 by Gustave Moreau ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
SPHINX GRAVE MARKER of a Youth & Little Girl, ca. 530 B.C. (This is the Original and has been taken down from pillar and next to pillar, what is on the pillar is a plaster cast) ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
YOUNG GIRL PEELING APPLES, 1655 By: Nicolaes Maes ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
THE THINKER By: Auguste Rodin, 1910. ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
Close up of ADAM, 1910 by Auguste Rodin ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
PERSEUS WITH THE HEAD OF MEDUSA , 1804 - 06 By: Antonio Canova ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
Ugalino and his sons (side view), 1865 -67 ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
UGOLINO and His Sons, 1865-67 by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
DIANA, 1893-94, By: Augustus Saint-Gaudens ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.

Part V: Another Misguided Tour *

STILL LIFE: Fruit, By: Severin Roesen, 1855 ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
STILL LIFE WITH FRUIT, By: John F. Francis, 1857. ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
STILL LIFE WITH LOBSTER AND FRUIT, By: Abrah van Beyeren, 1650's, ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
THE SILVER TUREEN or A DEAD HARE BEING EYED BY A CAT, By: Jean Simeon Chardin, 1728 - 30. ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.

SCENE THREE: THE ART OF DETENTION

"THE ART OF DETENTION" includes: SOAP BUBBLES, By: Jean Simeon Chardin, French, 1733-34, ****CLICK Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information
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"THE ART OF DETENTION" includes: DIANA, By: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American, 1893-94, Sculpture ****CLICK Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information
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"THE ART OF DETENTION" includes THE LACEMAKER, By: Nicolaes Maes, Dutch, 1656 ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.

SCENE FOUR: THOUGHT - A LOVE STORY

THE THINKER By: Auguste Rodin ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.

Part VI: Another Misguided Tour *

FUR TRADERS DESCENDING THE MISSOURI, By: George Caleb Bingham, 1845. ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
NEW YORK HARBOR WITH BROOKLYN BRIDGE, By: G. Baker, 1869. ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.

SCENE FIVE: JOE AND HELEN MEET THE ROMAN ART

"JOE AND HELEN MEET THE ROMAN ART" includes: Marble Statue of a Girl, 1st or 2nd Century A.D., Imperial Period. Culture: Roman ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
"JOE AND HELEN MEET THE ROMAN ART" includes: The Marble statue of a youthful Hercules, Early Imperial Flavian Period, 69–96 A.D. Culture: Roman ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
"JOE AND HELEN MEET THE ROMAN ART" includes: Atlas Supporting the Globe, ca.1780, French, Sculpture ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
"JOE AND HELEN MEET THE ROMAN ART" includes: Bronze Statuette of Neptune, Early Imperial 1st Century A.D. Bronze, Culture: Roman ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
"JOE AND HELEN MEET THE ROMAN ART" includes: Marble Head Of A Youth, Early Imperial, Claudian Period, 41-54 A.D. Culture: Roman****CLICK Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information
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Optional: BABES IN THE BERNINI *

ECHO, 1874 By: Alexandre Cabanel ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
KNEELING FEMALE, Cambodian, Mid-11th Century ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
SHAMAN RAVEN RATTLE, 19th Century, ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.
MASQUERADERS, 1875-78, By: Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta. ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art painting for more information.
AT THE LAPIN AGILE, 1905, By: Pablo Picasso, Spanish. ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art painting for more information.
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, 1616-17 By: Gian Lorenzo Bernini ****Click Here to link to The Metropolitan Museum Of Art for more information.

 

ACT ONE, Scene:

Part I: Another Misguided Tour *

1. LUSTING AFTER MONET

2. TRAY PICKER-UPPER IN THE MET CAFE *

Part II: Another Misguided Tour *

3. DATING ROMAN ART

4. TWO CHILDREN TEASING A CAT *

5. STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU

Part III: Another Misguided Tour *

6. ANOTHER FERTILITY GOD FUGUE

 

INTERMISSION

 

ACT TWO, Scene:

1. BROKEN EGGS

Part IV: Another Misguided Tour *

2. HERE SPHINXIE, SPHINXIE!

Part V: Another Misguided Tour *

3. THE ART OF DETENTION

4. THOUGHT - A LOVE STORY *

Part VI: Another Misguided Tour *

5. JOE, HELEN, HERCULES & LOVE

(8 One Act Comedies & *4 Monologues.)

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Optional Scene: BABES IN THE BERNINI *

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