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Tonight at 8.30

August 19, 2023

For the related 1952 film released in the US as Tonight at 8:30, see Meet Me Tonight.

Tonight at 8.30[n 1] is a cycle of ten one-act plays by Noël Coward, presented in London in 1936 and in New York in 1936–1937, with the author and Gertrude Lawrence in the leading roles. The plays are mostly comedies, but three, The Astonished Heart, Shadow Play and Still Life, are serious. Four of the comedies include songs, with words and music by Coward.

Lawrence and Coward in the Broadway production

One play, Star Chamber, was dropped after a single performance. The other nine plays were presented in three programmes of three plays each. There have been numerous revivals of many of the individual plays, but revivals of the complete cycle have been much less frequent. Several of the plays have been adapted for the cinema and television.

Tonight at 8.30 was first presented in 1935 in Manchester and then on tour in six other British cities, before opening in London and New York the following year.[n 2]

Background

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Coward wrote a succession of hits, ranging from the operetta Bitter Sweet (1929) and the epic Cavalcade (1931), requiring a large cast, gargantuan sets and a complex hydraulic stage, to the intimate comedies Private Lives (1930), in which Coward starred alongside Gertrude Lawrence, and Design for Living (1932).[5] Coward said that after Private Lives, he felt that the public enjoyed seeing him and Lawrence together on stage, and so he wrote the play cycle Tonight at 8.30 as "acting, singing, and dancing vehicles for Gertrude Lawrence and myself".[6]

In the programme for the London run Coward wrote:

[T]he idea of presenting three short plays in an evening instead of one long one is far from original. In fact, if one looks back over the years, one finds that the "triple bill" formula has been used, with varying degrees of success, since the earliest days of the theatre. Latterly, however – that is during the last quarter of a century – it has fallen from favour. Occasionally still a curtain-raiser appears in the provinces but wearing a sadly hang-dog expression, because it knows only too well, poor thing, that it would not be there at all were the main attraction of the evening long enough.[…]
A short play, having a great advantage over a long one in that it can sustain a mood without technical creaking or overpadding, deserves a better fate, and if by careful writing, acting, and producing I can do a little towards reinstating it in its rightful pride, I shall have achieved one of my more sentimental ambitions.[7]

Plays

The cycle consists of ten plays. In order of first production they are:

Songs

Four of the plays in the cycle are musical. According to The New York Times, they "break into spontaneous song ... in the most unexpected places".[18] The songs from Tonight at 8.30 are:[19]

  • "We Were Dancing", from We Were Dancing
  • "Has Anybody Seen our Ship?" and "Men About Town" from Red Peppers
  • "Then", "Play, Orchestra, Play" and "You Were There" from Shadow Play
  • "Drinking Song", "Princes and Princesses", "Music Box" and "Hearts and Flowers" from Family Album.

Productions

Original provincial production and tour

Six of the plays (We Were Dancing, The Astonished Heart, Red Peppers, Hands Across the Sea, Fumed Oak and Shadow Play) were first presented at the Opera House, Manchester, beginning on 15 October 1935.[20] A seventh play, Family Album, was added on the subsequent nine-week provincial tour.[n 3] The final three were added for the London run: Ways and Means, Still Life and Star Chamber, which was performed only once.[6]

London and New York premieres

The first London performance was on 9 January 1936 at the Phoenix Theatre.[21] Matinées were billed as To-day at 2.30.[22] The first set of three plays presented comprised Family Album, The Astonished Heart and Red Peppers.[23] Four days later the second trio was presented: Hands Across the Sea, Fumed Oak and Shadow Play.[24] We Were Dancing was introduced on 29 January, and Ways and Means and Still Life were added in May. Star Chamber's only performance was on 21 March.[25]

Partly to allow himself time to write, and partly because he hated acting in long runs, Coward's practice was to play for no more than six months in any run.[26] The London production closed on 20 June 1936, after 157 performances. The American production opened in New York, after a try-out in Boston, on 24 November and played for 118 performances.[3] The Broadway openings for the three parts were on 24, 27 and 30 November 1936, again starring Coward and Lawrence.[27][n 4] Reviewing the Boston performances, James Thurber wrote:

It seems to me that all these plays were written wisely and well. (Mr Coward bats them off in no time at all. which appalls me.) They have, at their best, a precision that moves towards the absolute. … More decorous and self-contained than Boston folks, I did not rise and shout but applauded loudly … I liked it; hell, I was crazy about it: I had a swell time.[28]

The New York run finished a month earlier than planned, because Coward's health broke down from overwork and his doctor insisted on an immediate break.[29]

Revivals

The cycle was given in Canada in 1938 by an American touring company, led by Bramwell Fletcher.[30] Major productions of parts of the cycle included Broadway revivals in 1948 (Red Peppers, Hands Across the Sea, Fumed Oak, Family Album, Shadow Play, and Ways and Means, starring Lawrence and Graham Payn),[n 5] and 1967 (Fumed Oak, Still Life and Ways and Means), 1981 at the Lyric Theatre in London (Shadow Play, Hands Across the Sea and Red Peppers), starring John Standing and Estelle Kohler and at the Chichester Festival in 2006 (Shadow Play, Hands Across the Sea, Red Peppers, Family Album, Fumed Oak and The Astonished Heart). In 1971, the Shaw Festival revived We Were Dancing, Family Album and Shadow Play, and in 2000, the Williamstown Theatre Festival revived We Were Dancing, Family Album, Hands Across the Sea (all starring Blythe Danner), Red Peppers, Shadow Play and Star Chamber.[18] The Antaeus Company in Los Angeles revived all ten plays in October 2007, as did the Shaw Festival in 2009.[32]

The first professional revival of the cycle in Britain was in April 2014, when English Touring Theatre staged all the plays except for Star Chamber. The critic Michael Billington wrote, "We are used to all-day stagings of Shakespeare. A marathon viewing of three Noel Coward triple bills, however, sounds like a banquet of soufflés. In the event, the nine plays … not only prove unexpectedly nourishing, but also reveal a lot about the author himself."[33] The production, co-produced by the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, opened there before a three-month national tour.[34] In 2018 a revival played at Jermyn Street Theatre in London, directed by Tom Littler, omitting Fumed Oak but including Star Chamber. The cast included Sara Crowe, Ian Hallard and Rosemary Ashe.[35]

Adaptations

Cinema

Several films have been based on the plays. We Were Dancing was loosely adapted as a film of the same name in 1942, starring Norma Shearer and Melvyn Douglas[36] Coward adapted Still Life for the screen as Brief Encounter in 1945.[37] The film was remade in 1974 starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren.[37] For a 1952 film, Meet Me Tonight (called Tonight at 8:30 in the US), directed by Anthony Pelissier, Coward adapted Ways and Means, Red Peppers and Fumed Oak).[38] Coward played Christian Faber in a 1950 film of The Astonished Heart (also starring Celia Johnson and Margaret Leighton).[39]

Television

Eight of the plays in the cycle (omitting Star Chamber and We Were Dancing) were adapted for television in 1991, by the BBC, starring Joan Collins.[40] Television adaptations of Red Peppers were released in 1937,[41] 1938,[42] 1958[43] and 1969, the last starring Bruce Forsyth and Dora Bryan as the Peppers and Edith Evans as Mabel Grace.[44] Still Life was given a television production in 1951.[45] The NBC-TV anthology series Producers' Showcase debuted on 18 October 1954 with Shadow Play, Still Life and Red Peppers, produced and directed by Otto Preminger, starring Ginger Rogers in all three; Martyn Green also starred in Red Peppers.[46] Hands Across the Sea was adapted for television in 1938.[47]

Notes, references and sources

Notes

  1. ^ Following the customary punctuation of the day the cycle was originally advertised as To-night at 8.30.[1] The hyphen was retained in the published texts issued during Coward's lifetime,[2] but has been dropped in subsequent editions.[3]
  2. ^ In the pre-London tour the title was changed at some theatres to To-night at 7.30, to reflect the local starting times; matinées were sometimes billed as To-day at 2.30.[4]
  3. ^ The other tour dates were Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Newcastle and Birmingham.[4]
  4. ^ Star Chamber was not included in the New York cycle.[27]
  5. ^ Payne was too unwell to appear at one performance and Coward went on for him; it was the last time he and Lawrence appeared on stage together.[31]

References

  1. ^ "To-night at 8.30", The Times, 20 August 1935, p. 10
  2. ^ Coward, 1954, pp. xvii and 99
  3. ^ a b Day, p. vii
  4. ^ a b Mander and Mitchenson, p. 282
  5. ^ Hoare, p. 249
  6. ^ a b Hoare, pp. 268–70
  7. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, pp. 284–285
  8. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 287
  9. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 291
  10. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 294
  11. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 297
  12. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 300
  13. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 303
  14. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 306
  15. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 308
  16. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 311
  17. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, p. 313
  18. ^ a b Brantley, Ben. "How to Savor Fleeting Joys: Smiles Suave, Brows Arched", The New York Times, 28 June 2000,
  19. ^ Coward (1965), pp. 168–179
  20. ^ "Theatres", The Manchester Guardian, 16 October 1935, p. 11
  21. ^ The Times, 10 January 1936, p. 10.
  22. ^ "Plays and Musicals" 25 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Noël Coward Society. Retrieved 25 January 2019
  23. ^ Parker, p. 21
  24. ^ Parker, p. 22
  25. ^ Mander and Mitchenson, pp. 287, 311, 313 and 308
  26. ^ Coward (1986), pp. 161 and 232
  27. ^ a b We Were Dancing and other plays 18 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine at the IBDB database
  28. ^ Quoted in Coward and Day, pp. 343–344
  29. ^ Coward and Day, p. 349
  30. ^ "Tonight at 8:30" 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Brief Encounters, Shaw Festival. Retrieved 25 January 2019
  31. ^ Day, p. xvii
  32. ^ Belcher, David. "Brushing Up Their Coward in Canada" 26 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine. New York Times, 17 August 2009
  33. ^ Billington, Michael. "Tonight at 8.30 review – unexpectedly nourishing Noel Coward marathon" 10 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian, 11 May 2014
  34. ^ "Tonight at 8.30" 6 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine English Touring Theatre, accessed 10 May 2014
  35. ^ Tonight At 8.30 12 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Jermyn Street Theatre, accessed 8 April 2018
  36. ^ We Were Dancing 9 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine at the IMDB database
  37. ^ a b Goble, p. 97
  38. ^ "Meet Me Tonight (1952)" 7 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine, British Film Institure. Retrieved 25 January 2019
  39. ^ "The Astonished Heart (1950)" 7 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine, British Film Institure. Retrieved 25 January 2019
  40. ^ Truss, Lynne. "Tonight at 8.30", The Times, 15 April 1991
  41. ^ Red Peppers (1937) 14 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine at the IMDB database
  42. ^ Red Peppers (1938) 8 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine at the IMDB database
  43. ^ Red Peppers (1958) 9 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine at the IMDB database
  44. ^ "Red Peppers (1969)" 7 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine, British Film Institure. Retrieved 25 January 2019
  45. ^ "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars", Still Life (1951) 9 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine at the IMDB database
  46. ^ "Tonight at 8:30" 27 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Showcase Productions Library, accessed 16 October 2011
  47. ^ Hands Across the Sea (1938) 9 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine at the IMDB database.

Sources

  • Coward, Noël (1954). Play Parade: The Collected Plays of Noël Coward, Volume 4. London: Heinemann. OCLC 660193185.
  • Coward, Noël (1965). The Lyrics of Noël Coward. London: Heinemann. OCLC 249341883.
  • Coward, Noël (2007). Barry Day (ed.). The Letters of Noël Coward. London: Methuen. ISBN 978-1-4081-0675-4.
  • Day, Barry (2009). "Introduction". Tonight at 8.30. London: Bloomsbury Methuen. ISBN 978-1-4081-1345-5.
  • Goble, Alan (2011) [1999]. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.
  • Hoare, Philip (1995). Noël Coward, A Biography. London: Sinclair-Stevenson. ISBN 978-1-85619-265-1.
  • Mander, Raymond; Joe Mitchenson (2000) [1957]. Theatrical Companion to Coward. Barry Day and Sheridan Morley (2000 edition, ed.) (second ed.). London: Oberon Books. ISBN 978-1-84002-054-0.
  • Parker, John, ed. (1939). Who's Who in the Theatre (ninth ed.). London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. OCLC 465772389.

External links

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For the related 1952 film released in the US as Tonight at 8 30 see Meet Me Tonight Tonight at 8 30 n 1 is a cycle of ten one act plays by Noel Coward presented in London in 1936 and in New York in 1936 1937 with the author and Gertrude Lawrence in the leading roles The plays are mostly comedies but three The Astonished Heart Shadow Play and Still Life are serious Four of the comedies include songs with words and music by Coward Lawrence and Coward in the Broadway productionOne play Star Chamber was dropped after a single performance The other nine plays were presented in three programmes of three plays each There have been numerous revivals of many of the individual plays but revivals of the complete cycle have been much less frequent Several of the plays have been adapted for the cinema and television Tonight at 8 30 was first presented in 1935 in Manchester and then on tour in six other British cities before opening in London and New York the following year n 2 Contents 1 Background 2 Plays 2 1 Songs 3 Productions 3 1 Original provincial production and tour 3 2 London and New York premieres 3 3 Revivals 4 Adaptations 4 1 Cinema 4 2 Television 5 Notes references and sources 5 1 Notes 5 2 References 5 3 Sources 6 External linksBackground EditIn the late 1920s and early 1930s Coward wrote a succession of hits ranging from the operetta Bitter Sweet 1929 and the epic Cavalcade 1931 requiring a large cast gargantuan sets and a complex hydraulic stage to the intimate comedies Private Lives 1930 in which Coward starred alongside Gertrude Lawrence and Design for Living 1932 5 Coward said that after Private Lives he felt that the public enjoyed seeing him and Lawrence together on stage and so he wrote the play cycle Tonight at 8 30 as acting singing and dancing vehicles for Gertrude Lawrence and myself 6 In the programme for the London run Coward wrote T he idea of presenting three short plays in an evening instead of one long one is far from original In fact if one looks back over the years one finds that the triple bill formula has been used with varying degrees of success since the earliest days of the theatre Latterly however that is during the last quarter of a century it has fallen from favour Occasionally still a curtain raiser appears in the provinces but wearing a sadly hang dog expression because it knows only too well poor thing that it would not be there at all were the main attraction of the evening long enough A short play having a great advantage over a long one in that it can sustain a mood without technical creaking or overpadding deserves a better fate and if by careful writing acting and producing I can do a little towards reinstating it in its rightful pride I shall have achieved one of my more sentimental ambitions 7 Plays EditThe cycle consists of ten plays In order of first production they are We Were Dancing A comedy in two scenes 8 The Astonished Heart A play in six scenes 9 Red Peppers An interlude with music 10 Hands Across the Sea A light comedy in one scene 11 Fumed Oak An unpleasant comedy in two scenes 12 Shadow Play A play with music 13 Family Album A Victorian comedy with music 14 Star Chamber A light comedy in one act 15 Ways and Means A comedy in three scenes 16 Still Life A play in five scenes 17 Songs Edit Four of the plays in the cycle are musical According to The New York Times they break into spontaneous song in the most unexpected places 18 The songs from Tonight at 8 30 are 19 We Were Dancing from We Were Dancing Has Anybody Seen our Ship and Men About Town from Red Peppers Then Play Orchestra Play and You Were There from Shadow Play Drinking Song Princes and Princesses Music Box and Hearts and Flowers from Family Album Productions EditOriginal provincial production and tour Edit Six of the plays We Were Dancing The Astonished Heart Red Peppers Hands Across the Sea Fumed Oak and Shadow Play were first presented at the Opera House Manchester beginning on 15 October 1935 20 A seventh play Family Album was added on the subsequent nine week provincial tour n 3 The final three were added for the London run Ways and Means Still Life and Star Chamber which was performed only once 6 London and New York premieres Edit The first London performance was on 9 January 1936 at the Phoenix Theatre 21 Matinees were billed as To day at 2 30 22 The first set of three plays presented comprised Family Album The Astonished Heart and Red Peppers 23 Four days later the second trio was presented Hands Across the Sea Fumed Oak and Shadow Play 24 We Were Dancing was introduced on 29 January and Ways and Means and Still Life were added in May Star Chamber s only performance was on 21 March 25 Partly to allow himself time to write and partly because he hated acting in long runs Coward s practice was to play for no more than six months in any run 26 The London production closed on 20 June 1936 after 157 performances The American production opened in New York after a try out in Boston on 24 November and played for 118 performances 3 The Broadway openings for the three parts were on 24 27 and 30 November 1936 again starring Coward and Lawrence 27 n 4 Reviewing the Boston performances James Thurber wrote It seems to me that all these plays were written wisely and well Mr Coward bats them off in no time at all which appalls me They have at their best a precision that moves towards the absolute More decorous and self contained than Boston folks I did not rise and shout but applauded loudly I liked it hell I was crazy about it I had a swell time 28 The New York run finished a month earlier than planned because Coward s health broke down from overwork and his doctor insisted on an immediate break 29 Revivals Edit The cycle was given in Canada in 1938 by an American touring company led by Bramwell Fletcher 30 Major productions of parts of the cycle included Broadway revivals in 1948 Red Peppers Hands Across the Sea Fumed Oak Family Album Shadow Play and Ways and Means starring Lawrence and Graham Payn n 5 and 1967 Fumed Oak Still Life and Ways and Means 1981 at the Lyric Theatre in London Shadow Play Hands Across the Sea and Red Peppers starring John Standing and Estelle Kohler and at the Chichester Festival in 2006 Shadow Play Hands Across the Sea Red Peppers Family Album Fumed Oak and The Astonished Heart In 1971 the Shaw Festival revived We Were Dancing Family Album and Shadow Play and in 2000 the Williamstown Theatre Festival revived We Were Dancing Family Album Hands Across the Sea all starring Blythe Danner Red Peppers Shadow Play and Star Chamber 18 The Antaeus Company in Los Angeles revived all ten plays in October 2007 as did the Shaw Festival in 2009 32 The first professional revival of the cycle in Britain was in April 2014 when English Touring Theatre staged all the plays except for Star Chamber The critic Michael Billington wrote We are used to all day stagings of Shakespeare A marathon viewing of three Noel Coward triple bills however sounds like a banquet of souffles In the event the nine plays not only prove unexpectedly nourishing but also reveal a lot about the author himself 33 The production co produced by the Nuffield Theatre Southampton opened there before a three month national tour 34 In 2018 a revival played at Jermyn Street Theatre in London directed by Tom Littler omitting Fumed Oak but including Star Chamber The cast included Sara Crowe Ian Hallard and Rosemary Ashe 35 Adaptations EditCinema Edit Several films have been based on the plays We Were Dancing was loosely adapted as a film of the same name in 1942 starring Norma Shearer and Melvyn Douglas 36 Coward adapted Still Life for the screen as Brief Encounter in 1945 37 The film was remade in 1974 starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren 37 For a 1952 film Meet Me Tonight called Tonight at 8 30 in the US directed by Anthony Pelissier Coward adapted Ways and Means Red Peppers and Fumed Oak 38 Coward played Christian Faber in a 1950 film of The Astonished Heart also starring Celia Johnson and Margaret Leighton 39 Television Edit Eight of the plays in the cycle omitting Star Chamber and We Were Dancing were adapted for television in 1991 by the BBC starring Joan Collins 40 Television adaptations of Red Peppers were released in 1937 41 1938 42 1958 43 and 1969 the last starring Bruce Forsyth and Dora Bryan as the Peppers and Edith Evans as Mabel Grace 44 Still Life was given a television production in 1951 45 The NBC TV anthology series Producers Showcase debuted on 18 October 1954 with Shadow Play Still Life and Red Peppers produced and directed by Otto Preminger starring Ginger Rogers in all three Martyn Green also starred in Red Peppers 46 Hands Across the Sea was adapted for television in 1938 47 Notes references and sources EditNotes Edit Following the customary punctuation of the day the cycle was originally advertised as To night at 8 30 1 The hyphen was retained in the published texts issued during Coward s lifetime 2 but has been dropped in subsequent editions 3 In the pre London tour the title was changed at some theatres to To night at 7 30 to reflect the local starting times matinees were sometimes billed as To day at 2 30 4 The other tour dates were Leeds Glasgow Edinburgh Liverpool Newcastle and Birmingham 4 Star Chamber was not included in the New York cycle 27 Payne was too unwell to appear at one performance and Coward went on for him it was the last time he and Lawrence appeared on stage together 31 References Edit To night at 8 30 The Times 20 August 1935 p 10 Coward 1954 pp xvii and 99 a b Day p vii a b Mander and Mitchenson p 282 Hoare p 249 a b Hoare pp 268 70 Mander and Mitchenson pp 284 285 Mander and Mitchenson p 287 Mander and Mitchenson p 291 Mander and Mitchenson p 294 Mander and Mitchenson p 297 Mander and Mitchenson p 300 Mander and Mitchenson p 303 Mander and Mitchenson p 306 Mander and Mitchenson p 308 Mander and Mitchenson p 311 Mander and Mitchenson p 313 a b Brantley Ben How to Savor Fleeting Joys Smiles Suave Brows Arched The New York Times 28 June 2000 Coward 1965 pp 168 179 Theatres The Manchester Guardian 16 October 1935 p 11 The Times 10 January 1936 p 10 Plays and Musicals Archived 25 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine Noel Coward Society Retrieved 25 January 2019 Parker p 21 Parker p 22 Mander and Mitchenson pp 287 311 313 and 308 Coward 1986 pp 161 and 232 a b We Were Dancing and other plays Archived 18 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine at the IBDB database Quoted in Coward and Day pp 343 344 Coward and Day p 349 Tonight at 8 30 Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Brief Encounters Shaw Festival Retrieved 25 January 2019 Day p xvii Belcher David Brushing Up Their Coward in Canada Archived 26 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine New York Times 17 August 2009 Billington Michael Tonight at 8 30 review unexpectedly nourishing Noel Coward marathon Archived 10 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine The Guardian 11 May 2014 Tonight at 8 30 Archived 6 April 2015 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