The young sweethearts were preparing for their wedding, not to mention a honeymoon to Las Vegas and Hawaii.
In the fall of 2007, they played George and Emily, the archetypal young sweethearts, in "Our Town," with a supporting cast of puppets.
Of the four stories in "Theophilus North," adapted by Matthew Burnett from Thornton Wilder's novel, the tale of the mismatched young sweethearts offers the most sophisticated interaction.
On the surface they are Greatest Generation stalwarts: he a combat veteran, she a bomber-plant worker, young sweethearts from small-town Kansas secretly married on the night of a high school banquet.
David Ward was a vocally secure and uncommonly spry Falstaff; Hallie Neill was a knowing and unflappable Alice Ford Nancy Cruzz Benenson and Pablo Veguilla, as the young sweethearts Nannetta and Fenton, made an endearing and vocally bright couple.
Yes, the posters may concentrate on Gleeson and Rachel McAdams, rather than Gleeson and Nighy, but by the end of About Time it's clear that the young sweethearts' flirty shenanigans are incidental to the main event.
"Some people play golf or get involved in politics, but this is what refreshes my soul," he says".Kakadu" ends up telling the story of the Biafran war from both sides, through storylines like the marriage of young sweethearts across ethnic lines.
Here families can enjoy picnics and young sweethearts can walk and talk together, free momentarily from prying eyes and wagging tongues.
It moves from the spiritual (in "Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun' ") to a comic ditty ("Life on the Wicked Stage") that suggests a tuba doing a gavotte; and from the utterly carefree ditty of young sweethearts ("Why Do I Love You?") to the dirge of a helpless woman at the end of her resources ("Bill").
We meet the young Dymock as duty separates him from his new sweetheart Joanie.
