It has been home to actors as diverse as Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, child actress Clara Fisher, comedian Dan Leno, the comedy troupe Monty Python ( who recorded a concert album there ), and musical composer and performer Ivor Novello.

Unlike Garrick, Kean had no true talent for comedy, but in the expression of biting and saturnine wit, of grim and ghostly gaiety he was unsurpassed.

Vandolph returns to big screen via Praybeyt Benjamin released by Star Cinema & Viva Films, this was also Vandolph's 1st movie for Viva Films and also returned to Star Cinema since his last movie was Home Along Da Riles 2, the comedy movie also with his co-stars with Vice Ganda, Jimmy Santos, Malou De Guzman, Eddie Garcia, DJ Durano, Kean Cipriano, Bodie Cruz, Carlos Agassi, Derek Ramsay & Nikki Valdez.

From around 1810 to 1840, the best-known Shakespearean performances in the United States were tours by leading London actors — including George Frederick Cooke, Junius Brutus Booth, Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, and Charles Kemble.

In London, Edmund Kean was the first Hamlet to abandon the regal finery usually associated with the role in favour of a plain costume, and he is said to have surprised his audience by playing Hamlet as serious and introspective.

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States ( 9 / 11 Commission ), chaired by former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean, was formed in late 2002 to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the attacks, including preparedness for, and the immediate response to, the attacks.

He then asked Francesco Maria Piave ( with whom he had already created Ernani, I due Foscari, Macbeth, Il Corsaro and Stiffelio ) to examine the play Kean by Alexandre Dumas, père, but he felt he needed a more energetic subject to work on.

Other successful productions of the play were staged by William Charles Macready ( 1842 ) and Charles Kean ( 1846 ).

O ' Kean is located at ( 36. 167956 ,-90. 815846 ), bordered by Greene County to the east, and one mile north of Lawrence County.

The front brake, introduced by John Kean in 1873, had been generally adopted by 1880 because of its greater stopping power.

The play was well received by both council and actors until Kean seemed to have a change of heart and began to make several offhand remarks that his part was not big enough for him.

Then, after a performance where Kean went out of his way to botch the opening night of " Switzerland " by historical novelist Jane Porter in February 1819, for whom Kean had had a personal dislike, Bucke pulled the play out of contempt for Kean's conduct .. After much cajoling to still perform the play by the theatre staff, Mr. Bucke then later had it republished with a preface concerning the incident, including excerpts from correspondences between the involved parties, which was later challenged in two books, The Assailant Assailed and A Defense of Edmund Kean, Esq.

Kean was the first to restore the tragic ending to Shakespeare's King Lear, which had been replaced on stage since 1681 by Nahum Tate's happy ending adaptation The History of King Lear.

Kean was sued by Cox for adultery on his return to England.

" In Dublin, Gustavus Vaughan Brooke took up the part of William Tell vacated by Kean.

It was in the impersonation of the great creations of Shakespeare ’ s genius that the varied beauty and grandeur of the acting of Kean were displayed in their highest form, although probably his most powerful character was Sir Giles Overreach in Philip Massinger ’ s A New Way to Pay Old Debts, the effect of his first performance of which was such that the pit rose en masse, and even the actors and actresses themselves were overcome by the terrific dramatic illusion.

In his earlier days, Talma said of him, “ He is a magnificent uncut gem ; polish and round him off and he will be a perfect tragedian .” Macready, who was much impressed by Kean ’ s Richard III and met the actor at supper, speaks of his “ unassuming manner ... partaking in some degree of shyness ” and of the “ touching grace ” of his singing.

So full of dramatic interest is the life of Edmund Kean that it formed the subject for the play " Kean " by Jean-Paul Sartre as well as a play by Alexandre Dumas, père, entitled Kean, ou Désordre et génie, in which the actor Frédérick Lemaître achieved one of his greatest triumphs.

Kelly starred in Jean-Paul Sartre's play Kean alongside Antony Sher at the Theatre Royal, Bath, and in the West End in May 2007.

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Kean also did some scripting ( along with Stan Lee ) of a Sunday-only Doody comic strip through United Feature Syndicate which ran from October 15, 1950, to June 21, 1953.

His first important success was Caius Gracchus, produced at Belfast in 1815 ; and his Virginius, written for Edmund Kean, was first performed in 1820 at Covent Garden.

Grattan's next public appearance was as the writer of a tragedy, ‘ Ben Nazir, the Saracen .’ This was produced by Edmund Kean at Drury Lane Theatre on 21 May 1827, but the actor, through ill-health and domestic misfortunes, broke down, and the play failed with him ( Morning Post, 22 May 1827, p. 3 ).

Kean managed and produced two Playthings singles and an album, finally joining them on bass in 1982.

Most of these were produced or co-produced by Paul Kean, who also handled most of the mixing.

In the United Kingdom, the actor-managers of the Victorian era ( including Kean, Samuel Phelps, Macready, and Henry Irving ) staged Shakespeare in a grand manner, with elaborate scenery and costumes.

The two most prominent Macbeths of mid-century, Samuel Phelps and Charles Kean, were both received with critical ambivalence and popular success.

Though The Times judged it a " miserable failure ," the production did much to overturn the tendency to scenic and antiquarian excess that had peaked with Charles Kean.

The intensity of his performance, particularly in the conversation with the murderers and in confronting Banquo's ghost, seemed to many reviewers to recall Edmund Kean.

Edmund Kean played King Lear with its tragic ending in 1823, but failed and reverted to Tate's crowd-pleaser after only three performances.

Kean University serves its students in the liberal arts, the sciences, and the professions with a dedication to intellectual and cultural growth and is best known for its programs in the humanities and social sciences and in education, graduating the most teachers in the state of New Jersey annually.

Kean is also renowned for the physical therapy program which it holds in conjunction with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

In 1990, after three albums, McCarthy broke up and Gane immediately formed Stereolab with Sadier ( who had also contributed vocals to McCarthy's final album ) and ex-Chills bassist Martin Kean.

The 1990s saw Jacobi keeping on with repertoire stage work in Kean at the Old Vic, Becket in the West End ( the Haymarket Theatre ) and Macbeth at the RSC in both London and Stratford.

Older son Harrison is expelled from boarding school due to poor grades and bad behavior and returns home with his tutor, Jerry Kean.

The adverse decision in the divorce case of Cox v. Kean on 17 January 1825 caused his wife to leave him, and aroused against him such bitter feeling, that he was booed and pelted with fruit when he re-appeared at Drury Lane, as nearly to compel him to retire permanently into private life.

After the intersection with Green Lane, Route 82 enters the area of Kean University, which surrounds the highway in both directions.

In the first episode of the 1985 season, Reb Kean was transferred to Blackmoor after fighting with Myra but she promised Joan she would be back for her.

A freeway for Route 139 called the Bergen Arches Expressway was proposed in 1989 by Governor Thomas Kean to connect the Jersey City waterfront with a new railroad line providing access to the Meadowlands Sports Complex.

During the curve, Route 439 enters Union and intersects with the southern terminus of New Jersey Route 82, where Kean University and Phil Rizzuto Park both surround the highway.

Kean University serves its students in the liberal arts, the sciences, and the professions with a dedication to intellectual and cultural growth and is best known for its programs in the humanities and social sciences and in education, graduating the most teachers in the state of New Jersey annually.

Kean is also renowned for the physical therapy program which it holds in conjunction with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Kean University was named a noteworthy College of the Year in 2001 by Time, and in 2008 was designated one of the five best diverse colleges in the nation by DiversityInc alongside with Cornell, Duke, Rutgers, and the University of California at Santa Barbara ).

John Kean II, who served on the staff of Governor Pennington with the rank of colonel, was an original stockholder of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, served as the first president of the Elizabeth and Somerville Railroad, as a vice president of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, as president of the National Bank of New Jersey, as president of the Elizabethtown Gaslight Company ( later known as Elizabethtown Gas Company ) and Elizabethtown Water Company lived at Liberty Hall for 60 years and made the most dramatically significant changes to the house and property in its history, transforming the house into a 50-room Victorian Italianate structure.