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Divernan

(15,480 posts)
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 10:35 AM Feb 2015

Get your tickets to see Tom Corbett massacre Shakespeare: $250 each!

Look, I'm a big supporter of the arts (at least to the best my tight budget allows), and I have been very impressed with the productions of the Pittsburgh Irish Classical Theatre - but their latest fund raiser leaves me ready to hurl. Here's the email invite I just received. Basically, Tom Corbett will be performing Shakespeare at Pittsburgh's most elite private club, The Duquesne Club.

'I am writing on behalf of Chuck Moellenberg, Partner at Jones Day and Co-Chair of PICT Classic Theatre's UnCommon Pleas, an evening of legal theatrical entertainment, co-sponsored by the Arts and Law Committee, Young Lawyers Division, and Homer S. Brown Division of the Allegheny County Bar Foundation. Part of the proceeds will also benefit the Allegheny County Bar Foundation as well as PICT Classic Theatre's educational programs.

The event will place two of Shakespeare’s most well- known characters, Prospero and Caliban of The Tempest, on trial in front of a panel of federal and state court judges. Former Governor Tom Corbett and Highmark Health’s Dan Onorato, will play the iconic figures, pleading their innocence and the others guilt, while Helen Hanna Casey, CEO and President of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, will appear as Ariel to cast her spell on the judges and audience.

The event is co-chaired by PICT Classic Theatre’s board president Charles H. Moellenberg, Jr. (Jones Day) and his wife Karen Moellenberg, also an attorney, as well as Thomas G. Donahue (Dinsmore) and Hayley Haldeman (Jones Day).

This entertaining evening has limited seating. The Court of UnCommon Pleas will convene at the Duquesne Club on March 19 at 6:00 p.m, featuring a three-course meal followed by the legal argument.
Tickets are $250/person, or $175/person or $300/couple for members of the Arts & the Law Committee, Homer S. Brown Division, and Young Lawyers Division of the Allegheny County Bar Association.

Sponsorship options, ranging from $750 to $5,000, come with a host of benefits, including the opportunity to become involved in the event.



I'd never pay $250 for this, but would love to see a tape. Will Corbett speak from behind a podium? Because he moves with all the physical grace of a man with a corncob up his ass (as we used to say in the farmlands of the Midwest.) His public speaking has never been impassioned either.

And for another thing, Dan Onorato was the Democratic candidate defeated by Corbett for the governorship. Hopefully, Dan will be very impassioned and wipe the floor with Wooden Tom!

Oh, the tragedy. The Bard will be spinning in his grave! Or will be angry in the manner Shakespeare thus described:
The cannons have their bowels full of wrath,
And ready mounted are they to spit forth
Their iron indignation 'gainst your walls
King John (2.1.217-9), King John

France, I am burn'd up with inflaming wrath;
A rage whose heat hath this condition,
That nothing can allay, nothing but blood,
The blood, and dearest-valued blood, of France.
King John (3.1.349-52), King John

Thou hadst been better have been born a dog
Than answer my waked wrath!
Othello (3.3.402-3), Othello to Iago
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Get your tickets to see Tom Corbett massacre Shakespeare: $250 each! (Original Post) Divernan Feb 2015 OP
Ipecac is cheaper. johnp3907 Feb 2015 #1
"I have seen corruption boil and bubble 'til it oerrun the stew." SHAKESPEARE JPZenger Feb 2015 #2
a poor player Pat Riot Feb 2015 #3

JPZenger

(6,819 posts)
2. "I have seen corruption boil and bubble 'til it oerrun the stew." SHAKESPEARE
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 12:53 PM
Feb 2015

From Measure to Measure, a sort-of comedy

Pat Riot

(446 posts)
3. a poor player
Tue Feb 24, 2015, 04:39 PM
Feb 2015

that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more (I hope)
A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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