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in History , iPad , Theatre | May 28th, 2018 74 Comments

The sto­ry of the Globe The­atre , the ances­tral home of Shakespeare’s plays, is itself very Shake­speare­an, in all of the ways we use that adjec­tive: it has deep roots in Eng­lish his­to­ry, a trag­ic back­sto­ry, and rep­re­sents all of the hodge­podge of Lon­don, in the ear­ly 17th cen­tu­ry and today, with the city’s col­or­ful street life, min­gling of inter­na­tion­al cul­tures, high and low, and its delight in the play and inter­play of lan­guages.

“The first pub­lic play­hous­es,” notes the British Library , “were built in Lon­don in the late 1500s. The­atres were not per­mit­ted with­in the bound­aries of the City itself”—theater not being con­sid­ered a respectable art—”but were tol­er­at­ed in the out­er dis­tricts of Lon­don, such as South­wark, where the Globe was locat­ed. South­wark was noto­ri­ous for its noisy, chaot­ic enter­tain­ments and for its sleazy low-life: its the­atres, broth­els, bear bait­ing pits, pick­pock­ets and the like.”

The Globe began its life in 1599, in a sto­ry that “might be wor­thy,” writes the Shake­speare Resource Cen­ter , “of a Shake­speare­an play of its own.” Built from the tim­bers of the city’s first per­ma­nent the­ater, the Burbage, which opened in 1576, the Globe burned down in 1613 “when a can­non shot dur­ing a per­for­mance of Hen­ry VIII  ignit­ed the thatched roof in the gallery.” With­in the year, it was rebuilt on the same foun­da­tions (with a tiled roof) and oper­at­ed until the Puri­tans shut it down in 1642, demol­ish­ing the famed open-air the­ater two years lat­er.

In a twist to this so far very Eng­lish tale, it took the tire­less efforts of an expa­tri­ate Amer­i­can, actor-direc­tor Sam Wana­mak­er, to bring the Globe back to Lon­don . After more than two decades of advo­ca­cy, Wanamaker’s Globe Play­house Trust suc­ceed­ed in recre­at­ing the Globe, just a short dis­tance from the orig­i­nal loca­tion. Open­ing in 1997, three-hun­dred and fifty-five years after the first Globe closed, the new Globe The­atre recre­at­ed all of the orig­i­nal’s archi­tec­tur­al ele­ments.

The stage projects into the cir­cu­lar court­yard, designed for stand­ing spec­ta­tors and sur­round­ed by three tiers of seats. While the stage itself has an elab­o­rate paint­ed roof, and the seat­ing is pro­tect­ed from the weath­er by the only thatched roof in Lon­don since the 1666 Great Fire, the theater’s court­yard is open to the sky. How­ev­er, where the orig­i­nal Globe held about 2,000 stand­ing and 1,000 seat­ed play­go­ers, the recre­ation, notes Time­Out Lon­don , holds only about half that num­ber.

Still, the­ater-goers can “get a rich feel for what it was like to be a ‘groundling’ (the stand­ing rab­ble at the front of the stage) in the cir­cu­lar, open-air the­atre.” Short of that, we can tour the Globe in the vir­tu­al recre­ation at the top of the post. Move around in any direc­tion and look up at the sky. As you do, click on the tiny cir­cles to reveal facts such as “Prob­a­bly the first Shake­speare play to be per­formed at the Globe was Julius Cae­sar , in 1599,” and videos like Mark Antony’s famous “friends, Romans, coun­try­men” speech, per­formed at the Globe, above.

If you don’t have the lux­u­ry of vis­it­ing the new Globe, tak­ing a tour, or see­ing a per­for­mance lov­ing­ly-recre­at­ed with all of the cos­tum­ing (and even pro­nun­ci­a­tion ) from Jacobean Eng­land, you can get the fla­vor of this won­drous achieve­ment in bring­ing cul­tur­al his­to­ry into the present with the vir­tu­al tour, also avail­able as an app for iPhone and iPad users . This inter­ac­tive tour super­sedes a pre­vi­ous ver­sion we fea­tured a few years back.

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Relat­ed Con­tent:

Hear What Ham­let, Richard III & King Lear Sound­ed Like in Shakespeare’s Orig­i­nal Pro­nun­ci­a­tion

The 1,700+ Words Invent­ed by Shake­speare*

What Shakespeare’s Hand­writ­ing Looked Like

Josh Jones  is a writer and musi­cian based in Durham, NC. Fol­low him at  @jdmagness

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This was cool because I got to see all the great details about this build­ing.

Bro u are not gonna believe this

The sto­ry of the Globe The­atre, the ances­tral home of Shakespeare’s plays, is itself very Shake­speare­an, in all of the ways we use that adjec­tive: it has deep roots in Eng­lish his­to­ry, a trag­ic back­sto­ry, and rep­re­sents all of the hodge­podge of Lon­don, in the ear­ly 17th cen­tu­ry and today, with the city’s col­or­ful street life, min­gling of inter­na­tion­al cul­tures, high and low, and its delight in the play and inter­play of lan­guages.

“The first pub­lic play­hous­es,” notes the British Library, “were built in Lon­don in the late 1500s. The­atres were not per­mit­ted with­in the bound­aries of the City itself”—theater not being con­sid­ered a respectable art—”but were tol­er­at­ed in the out­er dis­tricts of Lon­don, such as South­wark, where the Globe was locat­ed. South­wark was noto­ri­ous for its noisy, chaot­ic enter­tain­ments and for its sleazy low-life: its the­atres, broth­els, bear bait­ing pits, pick­pock­ets and the like.”

The Globe began its life in 1599, in a sto­ry that “might be wor­thy,” writes the Shake­speare Resource Cen­ter, “of a Shake­speare­an play of its own.” Built from the tim­bers of the city’s first per­ma­nent the­ater, the Burbage, which opened in 1576, the Globe burned down in 1613 “when a can­non shot dur­ing a per­for­mance of Hen­ry VIII ignit­ed the thatched roof in the gallery.” With­in the year, it was rebuilt on the same foun­da­tions (with a tiled roof) and oper­at­ed until the Puri­tans shut it down in 1642, demol­ish­ing the famed open-air the­ater two years lat­er.

In a twist to this so far very Eng­lish tale, it took the tire­less efforts of an expa­tri­ate Amer­i­can, actor-direc­tor Sam Wana­mak­er, to bring the Globe back to Lon­don. After more than two decades of advo­ca­cy, Wanamaker’s Globe Play­house Trust suc­ceed­ed in recre­at­ing the Globe, just a short dis­tance from the orig­i­nal loca­tion. Open­ing in 1997, three-hun­dred and fifty-five years after the first Globe closed, the new Globe The­atre recre­at­ed all of the orig­i­nal’s archi­tec­tur­al ele­ments.

The stage projects into the cir­cu­lar court­yard, designed for stand­ing spec­ta­tors and sur­round­ed by three tiers of seats. While the stage itself has an elab­o­rate paint­ed roof, and the seat­ing is pro­tect­ed from the weath­er by the only thatched roof in Lon­don since the 1666 Great Fire, the theater’s court­yard is open to the sky. How­ev­er, where the orig­i­nal Globe held about 2,000 stand­ing and 1,000 seat­ed play­go­ers, the recre­ation, notes Time­Out Lon­don, holds only about half that num­ber.

Still, the­ater-goers can “get a rich feel for what it was like to be a ‘groundling’ (the stand­ing rab­ble at the front of the stage) in the cir­cu­lar, open-air the­atre.” Short of that, we can tour the Globe in the vir­tu­al recre­ation at the top of the post. Move around in any direc­tion and look up at the sky. As you do, click on the tiny cir­cles to reveal facts such as “Prob­a­bly the first Shake­speare play to be per­formed at the Globe was Julius Cae­sar, in 1599,” and videos like Mark Antony’s famous “friends, Romans, coun­try­men” speech, per­formed at the Globe, above.

If you don’t have the lux­u­ry of vis­it­ing the new Globe, tak­ing a tour, or see­ing a per­for­mance lov­ing­ly-recre­at­ed with all of the cos­tum­ing (and even pro­nun­ci­a­tion) from Jacobean Eng­land, you can get the fla­vor of this won­drous achieve­ment in bring­ing cul­tur­al his­to­ry into the present with the vir­tu­al tour, also avail­able as an app for iPhone and iPad users. This inter­ac­tive tour super­sedes a pre­vi­ous ver­sion we fea­tured a few years back.

Its a his­tor­i­cal the­ater that got burned in an acci­dent with a can­non in the Hen­ry the 8th when they rebuilt the the­ater with a new roof in the same year but the fol­low­ing two years the build­ing got demolished,then an amer­i­can actor named Sam Wana­mak­er stood try­ing to get peo­ple to help him protest to rebuild the the­ater and after two decades advo­ca­cy the plan worked after 335 years after the orig­i­nal shut down the new one was born look­ing exact­ly like the orig­i­nal.

Born look­ing just like the orig­i­nal

WHy Am I sTuCk StEp BrO HeLp Me PlEaSe

that is a beau­ti­ful stage.

the stage is real­ly pret­ty

The 360 view was cool. i liked see­ing the videos.

why are the com­ments such a mess what the heck

Dang bro that’s aggres­sive

dis­tricts of Lon­don, such as South­wark, where the Globe was locat­ed

what the 𝓯𝓾𝓬𝓴 is up with these com­ments–

nice 360 tour

i wan­na con­tribute to the chaos

The Globe began its life in 1599, in a sto­ry that “might be wor­thy,” writes the Shake­speare Resource Cen­ter, “of a Shake­speare­an play of its own.” Built from the tim­bers of the city’s first per­ma­nent the­ater, the Burbage, which opened in 1576, the Globe burned down in 1613 “when a can­non shot dur­ing a per­for­mance of Hen­ry VIII ignit­ed the thatched roof in the gallery.”

I loved how there are so many dif­fer­ent kinds of the­aters and musi­cians and music in the world.

Funky me hard­er dady

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM I am very uncom­fort­able with the atmos­phere we have cre­at­ed in the stu­dio today @~@

You guys are not fun­ny, just stop.

I’d rather be the main char­ac­ter in one of Shake­speare’s plays than read through this com­ment sec­tion again.

I went there and my uncle touched my bum with his pp now I’m pres­i­dent oba­ma

I’ll take a pota­to chip

wdym you dont wan­na be my sussy lit­tle baka bbg

HELP HE“S GOT US TRAPPED IN HERE WE ONLY GET ONE PRINGLE A WEEK HELP PLS

chil­dren all of you chil­dren out there we see what you are typ­ing WE ARE READING THEM ALOUD TO OUR CLASS please it’s been the high­light of my day

Drury is a sussy baka ;)

he is the sussi­est of all the bakas

damn yall need ther­a­py more than the Win­ches­ters and that’s say­ing some­thing

Shakespeare’s bon­er

Among us is a dead meme pls stop say­ing “sussy baka” I’m frus­trat­ed and irri­ta­ble

The Hog Rid­er card is unlocked from the Spell Val­ley (Are­na 5). He is a quick build­ing-tar­get­ing, melee troop with mod­er­ate­ly high hit­points and dam­age. He appears just like his Clash of Clans coun­ter­part; a man with brown eye­brows, a beard, a mohawk, and a gold­en body pierc­ing in his left ear who is rid­ing a hog. A Hog Rid­er card costs 4 Elixir to deploy.

Accord­ing to all known laws of avi­a­tion, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat lit­tle body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies any­way because bees don’t care what humans think is impos­si­ble. Yel­low, black. Yel­low, black. Yel­low, black. Yel­low, black. Ooh, black and yel­low! Let’s shake it up a lit­tle. Bar­ry! Break­fast is ready! Com­ing! Hang on a sec­ond. Hel­lo? Bar­ry? Adam? Can you believe this is hap­pen­ing? I can’t. I’ll pick you up. Look­ing sharp. Use the stairs, Your father paid good mon­ey for those. Sor­ry. I’m excit­ed. Here’s the grad­u­ate. We’re very proud of you, son. A per­fect report card, all B’s. Very proud. Ma! I got a thing going here. You got lint on your fuzz. Ow! That’s me! Wave to us! We’ll be in row 118,000. Bye! Bar­ry, I told you, stop fly­ing in the house! Hey, Adam. Hey, Bar­ry. Is that fuzz gel? A lit­tle. Spe­cial day, grad­u­a­tion. Nev­er thought I’d make it. Three days grade school, three days high school. Those were awk­ward. Three days col­lege. I’m glad I took a day and hitch­hiked around The Hive. You did come back dif­fer­ent. Hi, Bar­ry. Artie, grow­ing a mus­tache? Looks good. Hear about Frankie? Yeah. You going to the funer­al? No, I’m not going. Every­body knows, sting some­one, you die. Don’t waste it on a squir­rel. Such a hot­head. I guess he could have just got­ten out of the way. I love this incor­po­rat­ing an amuse­ment park into our day. That’s why we don’t need vaca­tions. Boy, quite a bit of pomp under the cir­cum­stances. Well, Adam, today we are men. We are! Bee-men. Amen! Hal­lelu­jah! Stu­dents, fac­ul­ty, dis­tin­guished bees, please wel­come Dean Buzz­well. Wel­come, New Hive City grad­u­at­ing class of 9:15. That con­cludes our cer­e­monies And begins your career at Honex Indus­tries! Will we pick our job today? I heard it’s just ori­en­ta­tion. Heads up! Here we go. Keep your hands and anten­nas inside the tram at all times. Won­der what it’ll be like? A lit­tle scary. Wel­come to Honex, a divi­sion of Honesco and a part of the Hexa­gon Group. This is it! Wow. Wow. We know that you, as a bee, have worked your whole life to get to the point where you can work for your whole life. Hon­ey begins when our valiant Pollen Jocks bring the nec­tar to The Hive. Our top-secret for­mu­la is auto­mat­i­cal­ly col­or-cor­rect­ed, scent-adjust­ed and bub­ble-con­toured into this sooth­ing sweet syrup with its dis­tinc­tive gold­en glow you know as… Hon­ey! That girl was hot. She’s my cousin! She is? Yes, we’re all cousins. Right. You’re right. At Honex, we con­stant­ly strive to improve every aspect of bee exis­tence. These bees are stress-test­ing a new hel­met tech­nol­o­gy. What do you think he makes? Not enough. Here we have our lat­est advance­ment, the Krel­man. What does that do? Catch­es that lit­tle strand of hon­ey that hangs after you pour it. Saves us mil­lions. Can any­one work on the Krel­man? Of course. Most bee jobs are small ones. But bees know that every small job, if it’s done well, means a lot. But choose care­ful­ly because you’ll stay in the job you pick for the rest of your life. The same job the rest of your life? I did­n’t know that. What’s the dif­fer­ence? You’ll be hap­py to know that bees, as a species, haven’t had one day off in 27 mil­lion years. So you’ll just work us to death? We’ll sure try. Wow! That blew my mind!

yes i agree, they are very inter­est­ing as well as love­ly <3

I Pledge alle­giance, to the flag, of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca And to the repub­lic, for which it stands, one nation under God Indi­vis­i­ble, with lib­er­ty and jus­tice for all I pledge alle­giance to the flag Of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca And to the repub­lic, for which it stands One nation under God Indi­vis­i­ble With lib­er­ty and jus­tice for all The pledge of alle­giance to the flag, As a pledge to the ideals of our Fore­fa­thers The men who fought and died, for the build­ing of the great nation It’s a pledge to ful­fill our duties and oblig­a­tions as cit­i­zens of the Unit­ed States And to uphold the prin­ci­pals of our con­sti­tu­tion. And last but not least, it’s a pledge to main­tain the four great free­doms Cher­ished by all Amer­i­cans, free­dom of speech, free­dom of reli­gion Free­dom for want, and free­dom from fear. I pledge alle­giance, to the flag Of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca. And to the reli­gion, for which it stands, One nation under God Indi­vis­i­ble With lib­er­ty and jus­tice for all.

same bro. same

same bro. sam

hey any­one wan­na smash lat­er this week? im bored

Y’all tweakin on the shake­spear­i­an site. Where can i find heizen­burg and is san­ta real? any­ways if you find a cute asian for me just msg me on dis­cord .vamp­tom

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Shakespeare's globe ultimate guide.

Nestled near the Tate Modern and the Millennium Bridge, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre may seem a little out of place. It was, after all, designed after the original Globe Theatre which was built in 1599 (and then later rebuilt in 1614 after it was destroyed by a fire).

When it was first constructed, the Globe Theatre was located in the epicentre of London’s entertainment district on the Bankside in Southwark. Performances were put on by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, and it is said that Shakespeare himself even sat in the theatre to watch his own performances.

The modern-day Globe Theatre is an oak-and-thatch replica of the original 1599 Elizabethan playhouse (which once sat about 200 metres from where the Globe stands today), and as a result concertgoers will feel as if they’ve been transported back to Elizabethan times when watching a performance.

Today the theatre serves as an open-air venue dedicated to the work of Shakespeare, and some of the many performances visitors can still watch at the playhouse include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, and many, many more. Depending on the time of year, several plays, operas, comedy shows and candlelit concerts are held inside the playhouse as well.

Visitors can sit on the wooden benches (which can sit up to 340 people) surrounding the stage, or in any of the two tiers of galleried seating, and there are also productions held in the recently-opened Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (a candlelit indoor theatre located inside the Globe’s building). Attendees can even stand in the standing rabble directly in front of the stage, just as they did in the original theatre during Elizabethan times. It's a great place to visit on your own or with a guide on a free walking tour, so you can dive into the history of arts in London.

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Not only does the Globe Theatre host numerous performances throughout the summer months, they also host guided tours of the playhouse as well as the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, which are led by the Globe’s many performers. During the tours, visitors are educated on the history of the Globe, and will also be shown costume and prop collections which are used during performances at the theatre.

Another highlight includes the Globe Theatre’s Exhibition, which educates visitors on Shakespeare’s life, as well as where he lived in London. It also gives some background on what Southwark would have looked like during Elizabethan times, as well as more information on the construction of the original playhouse.

Depending on when you visit, there may also be some temporary exhibitions and/or galleries being held inside the playhouse, which range from historical to photography exhibitions.

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Make sure you check the weather forecast before you book your tickets, as those in the standing area may be “exposed to the elements” while watching a performance (it is an open-air theatre after all). The use of umbrellas is strictly forbidden, so make sure you bring an extra raincoat and warm shoes, just in case. If you’re worried about standing in the rain, there are seats available which are protected under a sound roof.

Guided tours of the Globe Theatre and the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse take about 30 minutes each, and you’re welcome to ask questions at the end of each tour. Visitors can also go on their own self-guided tour of the Exhibition which includes a complimentary audio guide that is available in several different languages (visitors can pick up their audio guides at the admissions desk at the Exhibition). If no tour is running on the day of your visit, visitors can enter the Exhibition at a reduced price.

Visitors can also go on a tour to the Rose Theatre archaeological site (only on certain days when there is an afternoon matinee performance), to view the remains of the original Globe theatre. If you don’t feel like going on a tour, you can easily find the spot of the original theatre on your own, as it is marked with a plaque as well as information panels about 200 metres away from the Globe.

Ticket prices and Opening Hours

Due to the fact that the Globe is an open-air theatre, performances are only held from mid-April to mid-October. The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse theatre season is from October until April, but candlelit music concerts are performed here throughout the year.

Globe Theatre tours, on the other hand, run every day throughout the year (except December 24th and 25th); however, during the performance season tours finish around mid-day in order to allow time for matinee performances. Sam Wanamaker Playhouse tours are only available on selected days, and generally run every 30 minutes between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.

The hours for the Globe Theatre tours are:

• 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Mondays)
• 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Tuesday to Saturday)
• 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (Sundays)

Both the Exhibition and tour tickets are sold on a first-come, first-served bases, so try to arrive at least 30 minutes before the final tour of the day to ensure yourself a spot.

For Shakespeare performances, seat ticket costs range depending on visibility. There are 700 standing tickets available (which offer the best views of the stage) and cost £5 each. Seating tickets for the lower, middle and upper galleries cost anywhere between £20 and £45.

If you want to watch a candlelit concert at the Globe Theatre, tickets cost £10 (for standing) or anywhere between £15 to £48 (for seating). Tickets for opera performances cost £10 (for standing) or £26-£79 (for seating), while tickets for comedy shows cost £10 (for standing) or £25-£35 (for seating).

Are you visiting The Globe Theatre? You might also want to check out some of the many free tours in London departing every day.

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With brand-new Shakespeare productions, a supernaturally silly family show, an extraordinary new play, plus our programme of visiting artists, conversation, discussion and debate, this summer promises something for everyone.

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Hollywood has something that is more powerful in the minds of those who come to see the words written on hill that say "HOLLYWOOD". It has star power...everybody either wants to be a star or see one when they come to Hollywood.

What's so fascinating about fascinating Hollywood is the name itself has no intrinsic meaning other than what it has become. The founders of Hollywood, Harvey Henderson Wilcox and his wife, Daeida, established it as a residential development. Did Daeida select the name after she met a lady on a train whose summer home was called Hollywood, as some suggest? "The Father of Hollywood" by Gaelyn Whitley Keith attributes the founding to H J Whitley in 1886. Whitley Heights is on the National Registry and the Whitley, himself, is buried in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Hollywood isn't a city at all, actually. At an election on November 14, 1903, the residents of Hollywood voted to incorporate as an independent city but did an about turn in 1910 when they sought a reliable water supply and felt that would only be assured by being annexed into Los Angeles. The region has really run with the name and trademarked it, emblazoned it on the hills and spread the word about this place throughout the world.

When you visit, you'll see thousands of tourists from around the globe coming to Hollywood, putting their footprints and handprints into the castings of the famous celebrities next to Mann's Chinese Theatre, buying souvenir things with HOLLYWOOD on them, and taking tours in buses that provide narratives of the famous people. The Grayline Tours actually stop in front of celebrity houses and wait for a sign of someone to come out or wave. It's pretty crazy, but that's how it goes in a star-crazed place.

When you visit Hollywood, there's a lot to see and do.

Capitol Records, 1750 N. Vine, at the historic intersection of Hollywood and Vine. Landmark building is one of Hollywood's icons and built like a stack of records.

Universal Studios Hollywood, (818) 508-9600. Located off the Hollywood Fwy. at the Universal Center Drive and Lankershim exits. Includes popular attractions based on movies, back lot tours of actual film studios, and City Walk, a free admission entertainment, shopping and dining attraction. Open daily, except Thanksgiving and Christmas. Operating hours vary.

Walk of Fame - honors more than 2,000 stars of motion pictures, television, recording, radio and theatre. The Walk is located on Hollywood Blvd. between La Brea and Gower and on Vine Street between Yucca and Sunset Blvd. Approximately 20 new stars are added each year.

Where to stay? Renaissance Hotel, which is connected to the Kodak Theater is very nice and has city lights views, or Hollywood hills with the Hollywood sign. Magic Castle Hotel is across the street, and Roosevelt Hotel Hollywood is just down the block. It has ghosts, some say, but you'll more often see famous celebrities making phantom appearances.

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If they could've had their way, the legendary British band Madness would've toured America much earlier compared to now as the group prepares a trek of the States this Wednesday for the first time in 10 year s. But according to the group's singer, Graham 'Suggs' McPherson, the arrival of COVID at the time scuttled those initial plans.

“Time flies so fast, doesn't it?” he says. “We were supposed to come pre-pandemic and obviously that all got f***ed. [It] just went on and on and on and [we] thought, ‘Are we ever gonna get there?’... But we're coming. And I'm very much looking forward to it. [America’s] a funny old place for us because we were never that big there. But we always have a good crowd who really dig what we've done.”

In a career that saw Madness achieve massive chart success in the U.K. beginning in the 1980s with such hits songs as “Baggy Trousers,” “My Girl,” “House of Fun” and “Our House,” the American tour coincides with Madness's most recent album Theatre of Absurd Presents C'est la Vie . According to McPherson, it wasn't easy making the record at first and trying to do it remotely was not possible during the early days of the pandemic.

“Well, you know, everybody went through that terrible pandemic business, and that took three years out of our lives,” he recalls. “We tried to do that online and it just didn't work. Unless we're in a room together, we can't really make music. But once we got back in the room together, it all started to happen. We had a lot of different ideas about what was right and wrong with society. But what unites us is more than what divides us, I think somebody in America once said. So we made a record that we all really dug.”

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Theatre of the Absurd , which peaked at number one on the British chart , is the first album since 2016's Can't Touch Us Now for Madness, whose current lineup consists of McPherson, guitarist Chris Foreman, keyboardist Mike Barson, saxophonist Lee Thompson, drummer Dan Woodgate and bassist Mark Bedford. Work on the album began after Madness rented an old industrial unit. “I remember for the first two weeks thinking, ‘All these songs are crap. We've got nothing here,’” says McPherson. “And then bit by bit, it started to come together.”

Conflicting views over lockdown initially created a schism among the band members, recalls McPherson. Yet it also contributed to the conceptual tilt of the new record. “It's hard to explain it specifically,” he says, “but some people were pro-vaccine, some people were anti-vaccine. Some people were pro-this, some people were [pro-]that. And then we just thought the whole thing has become absurd, that this whole notion that you can't meet in the middle anymore, you have to be on one side or the other. We started to kind of get this concept that it's not our fault, that it's absurd, and that it has all become rather theatrical.

“For us,” he continues, “we were brought up on vaudeville and the darker nature of clapped-out theaters and the wallpaper peeling off. And so it started to form, and then we sort of had the idea of making it into different acts: act one, two and three. It just sort of came together by osmosis, really.”

As represented in the album's title track, aspects of the 20-track work (including spoken interludes by the actor Martin Freeman) employ a very theatrical, arty English music hall type of vibe. Says McPherson: “I just had this vision of us old fellas being stuck in some old theater and we couldn't get out. I sort of thought about a lot of people feeling like they couldn't get out. I've always loved that slightly theatrical vaudeville or whatever. I just wanted to do something that might have been in a theater in the 1940s. That's what I was sort of aiming at.”

Yet, despite that stylistic evolution in Madness’ sound, the band's ska roots are still evident on some tracks – including “C'est la Vie” – while addressing the current state of society. “We had an argument because I wrote a song called “Theatre of the Absurd,”” McPherson says, “and I thought that was the best title for the album. And then Mike, our keyboard player, wrote “C'est la Vie,” and I thought, 'He's done me now. That's actually better than my song.' It's difficult because you don't want to be completely pessimistic, but you have to be kind of realistic. And Mike just said, 'C'est la vie,' which is, 'This is what it is.' It's a French thing. It's the shrug of the shoulders. We just have to carry on.”

The semi-autobiographical track “Baby Burglar,” co-written by saxophonist Thompson, draws from his past run-ins with the law earlier in his life; it simultaneously sounds like classic Madness. “Much to his chagrin, he's not proud of it,” McPherson says, “but he went to prison a couple of times for being a burglar. In London at the moment, we've got a pandemic of crime with the young kids. He just wanted to say, ‘Don't do what I did.’ He can't tell people what to do or not to do. Once you get the band playing, it all sounds like Madness because of the way the band is.”

The McPherson-penned “In My Street” could be arguably considered a spiritual sequel of sorts to the nostalgic “Our House” from 40 years ago. “I was moving house,” the singer says, “and I've been in this same house for 30 years, and I thought I'd like to write a eulogy about the house that I lived in, he says. “The Kinks were what I was thinking about —“Dead End Street” — and things like that.

“When I wrote “In My Street,” I thought, 'It's about my street.' I just tried to use all the tricks of the Kinks. It's what we call pathos. It's happiness and sadness at the same time. Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys said to me: 'The great thing about Madness songs are they have pathos.' What sounds happy is also sad at the same time. And I think that song has, has some of that.”

Related to that pathos is “Set Me Free,” which reflects the album's sense of melancholy lyrically despite Madness's ebullient sound. “That was his experience of being in the lockdown,” says McPherson of bandmate Foreman, the song’s writer. “You know It's very specific you know that he just wanted to get out of being locked down. And it makes us all feel like crying at certain times.”

For the new American tour, Madness will perform Theatre' s tracks alongside the old favorites. “It's difficult, obviously,” McPherson says, “because we haven't been there for a while. We just did a tour [in the U.K.] and we did a lot of new songs. That's because we're playing England quite regularly. But in America, I think we've got to double-check ourselves with the fact that people want to hear more of the hits that they recognize. We do a mixture of both. It'll be interesting to see what people think.”

Madness was founded in Camden Town in 1976 just as British punk was ascending in the music and culture. With their bouncy danceable sound, Madness became part of the British two-tone movement that included acts like the Specials, the Beat and the Selecter.

Says McPherson: “I mean, it's funny because you think it's 40-odd years now since we started doing this ridiculous outfit. We were sort of wild. And then we got more into writing songs, and it's a difficult thing to reconcile. You want people to dance and have a fucking good time. That's what Madness were about. But at the same time, we ended up writing songs that were a little bit more than just ska, you know, not that we don't love that music. But we got to a position where we just didn't want to be pigeonholed as a ska band, We're writing all sorts of different kinds of songs.”

Part of the desire for Madnes to branch out beyond their ska-inflected sound resulted in “Our House,” the band's 1983 breakthrough U.S. hit Accompanied by an endearing quirky video, “Our House” received major airplay and linked to the band to the Second British Invasion of America.

“We'd sort of given up on America,” McPherson recalls of that period. “We've kind of like been there three or four times, and it hasn't really worked, and blah, blah, blah. I think “It Must Be Love” got to something like number 30. And “Our House” just hit off in a way that we never thought that we would.”

Amid the recent release of Theatre of the Absurd and the upcoming U.S. tour (later followed by more shows in the U.K. and parts of Europe), this year also marks a special milestone for Madness: the 45th anniversary of the band's debut record One Step Beyond..., which eventually reached number two on the British chart. McPherson admits he couldn't have imagined that Madness would last this long not only included hit songs and tours but also a musical titled Our House that debuted in London's West End in 2002.

“I remember when we were kids thinking the Rolling Stones are like 40,” he says. “I don't know where it ends. It's like we still have a great deal of enthusiasm for what we do. And the crowd has a great enthusiasm for what we do.

“I do remember saying in some pop magazine when I was 20, 'There's no way I'll still be playing that “Baggy Trousers” when I'm an old man of 30.’ And I'm 62 years old, you know? I sometimes feel bad that we should move over and let in young kids. But they keep asking us back. And I genuinely think I enjoy it as much, if not more, now.”

The longevity of the group is associated with the chemistry within Madness, who still carry on with six of the seven original members–a rarity when it comes to legacy acts. “I do it every night [at our shows]: I look around, and I look at the band,” says McPherson, “and I say to the audience, 'Not only is it amazing that you still dig what we do, it's that we're still alive.' It's a privilege.”

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May 22 - WAMU Theater, Seattle,

May 23 - Fox Theater, Oakland

May 24 - Fox Theater, Oakland

May 26 - Youtube Theater, Los Angeles

May 27 - Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival, Las Vegas

May 29 - MGM Music Hall at Fenway, Boston

May 30 - Hammerstein Ballroom, New York

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BATH 10 a.m. Monday. Parade begins at 200 Congress Ave. and concludes at Library Park and will be followed by a wreath-laying service at 11 a.m.

BERWICK 11 a.m. Monday. Parade begins at Berwick Town Hall/Sullivan Square and proceeds to Lord’s Cemetery by way of Wilson and Allen streets. After a ceremony there, the parade will continue down Saw Mill Hill Street with a pause at the Somersworth-Berwick Bridge for a brief memorial service for those lost at sea. The parade ends at Sullivan Square with a memorial service honoring area veterans.

BIDDEFORD-SACO Opening ceremony at 9:55 a.m. Monday at Saco City Hall. Parade starts at 10 a.m. from Saco City Hall and proceeds along Main Street and down York Hill into Biddeford, continues along Main Street, onto Alfred Street and finishes at Veteran’s Memorial Park with a closing ceremony at 10:45 a.m.

BRUNSWICK-TOPSHAM 9 a.m. Monday. Parade proceeds from Topsham Town Hall, pauses for observances while crossing the Brunswick-Topsham bridge, and concludes at the Brunswick Mall.

CAPE ELIZABETH 9 a.m. Monday. Parade begins at the middle school parking lot, turns right on Scott Dyer Road, right onto Route 77 and ends at the village green adjacent to the town hall. A brief ceremony and laying of the wreath will be held at the Village Green after the parade.

CUMBERLAND 8 a.m. Monday. Kids run at Greely High School followed by 5K Run and Remember race at 8:30 a.m. Parade starts at 10 a.m. at Mabel I. Wilson School and ends at the veterans’ monument in Moss Side Cemetery in Cumberland Center, where a ceremony will be held at 10:30 a.m. Advertisement

FALMOUTH 10 a.m. Monday. Parade proceeds from 65 Depot Road (Falmouth American Legion) to Pine Grove Park, where a ceremony will be held.

FREEPORT 9:30 a.m. Monday. Parade proceeds from Holbrook Street, heads north on Main and makes a right onto School Street, then right onto Park Street, ending in Memorial Park. There will be a small ceremony in Memorial Park starting at 10 a.m.

GORHAM 11 a.m. Monday. Parade starts at Village School (12 Robie St.) and ends at Eastern Cemetery on Johnson Road.

GRAY 11:30 a.m. Monday. Parade leaves the Russell School (8 Gray Park), proceeds to Shaker Road and continues to the Soldiers Monument at the intersection of Routes 26 and 3 for a wreath-laying ceremony. Parade continues north to the American Legion Post (15 Lewiston Road) for a closing ceremony.

LYMAN 1 p.m. Monday. Parade starts at Waterhouse Road/Mill Pond in Goodwins Mills and ends at the Lyman Town Hall on South Waterboro Road.

NEW GLOUCESTER 9 a.m. Monday. Parade leaves from Memorial Elementary School (86 Intervale Road) and heads down Intervale Road to Route 100/202 to Veterans Park for a memorial service. The parade will reconvene and go down Peacock Hill Road, then take a left on Gilmore Road. Advertisement

OLD ORCHARD BEACH 1 p.m. Monday. Parade starts at the corner of Ballpark Way and E. Emerson Cumming Boulevard and proceeds down Saco Avenue, Old Orchard Beach Street to First Street and ends at Veteran’s Memorial Park.

PORTLAND 2 p.m. Monday. The procession starts at Longfellow School (432 Stevens Ave.) and ends at Evergreen Cemetery for a commemoration ceremony.

SANFORD 10 a.m. Monday. The parade starts at the Sanford Armory (88 William Oscar Emery Drive), proceeds up Gowen Park Drive and ends at Central Park.

SCARBOROUGH 10 a.m. Monday. Parade starts at Scarborough High School, turns onto Route 114 and then Route 1, past town offices to the Maine Veterans Home and concludes with a ceremony there.

SOUTH PORTLAND 10:30 a.m. Monday. Parade starts at Southern Maine Community College parking lot, proceeds down Broadway to the Veterans Monument for a short Memorial Day recognition service.

WELLS 9 a.m. Monday. Parade starts at Wells High School (200 Sanford Road) and proceeds to Ocean View Cemetery for a ceremony and musical performances. Advertisement

WESTBROOK 10 a.m. Monday. Parade proceeds down Main Street and will be followed by a ceremony in Riverbank Park.

WINDHAM 9 a.m. Monday. Parade starts at Windham Town Hall and proceeds onto Route 202 toward Windham High School. At 10 a.m., there will be a ceremony in front of Windham’s Veterans Memorial Flagpole at Windham High School.

YARMOUTH 10 a.m. Monday. Parade leaves from Yarmouth High School (286 West Elm St.) and proceeds to the Memorial Green at Town Hall for a ceremony.

YORK 10 a.m. Monday. Parade starts near St. Christopher’s Church (4 Barrell Lane) and proceeds down York Street to York Town Hall.

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