William Mills "Bill" Irwin (born April 11, 1950) is an American actor, clown, and comedian. He began as a vaudeville-style stage performances and has been noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He has also made a number of appearances on film and television, and he won a Tony Award for his role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf on Broadway. He is also known as Mr. Noodle on Sesame Street's "Elmo's World", and regularly appears as a therapist on Law and Order SVU.
Irwin has created several highly regarded stage shows that incorporate elements of clowning, often in collaboration with composer Doug Skinner. These works included The Regard of Flight (1982), which ran on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in April 1987 for 17 performances.Largely New York (1989), Fool Moon (1993),The Harlequin Studies (2003), and Mr. Fox: A Rumination (2004).Mr. Fox is a production that Irwin has worked on for years, a biography of 19th century clown George Washington Lafayette Fox that also has autobiographical elements. In 2013, he teamed with his occasional partner David Shiner to create and perform in the Off-Broadway "clowning revue-with-music" Old Hats.Old Hats won the 2013 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue.
William Archibald "Bill" Irwin (March 24, 1920 – February 9, 2013) was a Canadian competitive skier who competed in six events across four disciplines at the 1948 Winter Olympics. In St. Moritz he competed in the downhill, slalom, combined, 18 km, Nordic combined, and ski jumping events, placing 60th (tied with Donald Garrow of Great Britain), 50th, 36th, 81st, 37th, and 39th respectively. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he won his first race at the age of nine in 1930 and his last in 1983. He served with the Canadian Army during World War II from 1943 through 1945 and taught ScottishCommandos how to ski after the conflict. In 1956 he founded a ski area and club at Loch Lomond near Thunder Bay, Ontario, owning and operating it for 23 years. In 1975 he was awarded the Ontario Tourism Award for "...dedication to the tourist industry of Ontario through the development and promotion of skiing" and in 2000 he was inducted into the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame in the jumping, Nordic, and builder categories. Over the course of his career as a competitor he acquired more than 200 trophies, at the national and international levels, and won numerous Central Canadian championships. His brother Bert also competed at the 1948 Games and his son Dave attended the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics and became known nationally as one of the "Crazy Canucks".
Irwin and his wife, Liz, live in Portland with their two sons Bryan, who played for the Portland university team, and Nicholas.
Playing career
An Irish amateur international, Irwin began his career at Bangor where he was managed by Charlie Tully. During his spell at the club, he helped win the clubs first honours when they won the County Antrim Shield and the City Cup in successive seasons. Prior to his death Tully had recommended Irwin to his former club Celtic but the move never materialised and he eventually joined Welsh side Cardiff City in 1971.
Brought in to replace Frank Parsons, Irwin was thrown straight into the Cardiff side and performed admirably, including winning the 1971–1972 BBC save of the season award for a spectacular save during a 2–0 defeat in the FA Cup against Leeds United in February 1972. He also became the first Cardiff goalkeeper to be sent off during a match after receiving his marching orders against Bangor City during the 1972–73 Welsh Cup final. Irwin held the position of first choice goalkeeper for four seasons, beating off competition from Parsons and Jim Eadie, until the arrival of Ron Healey in 1974 saw him lose his place. He eventually left the club in 1978 and went to play for the Washington Diplomats in the NASL.
MonsignorWilliam "Bill" Irwin, OC (1928 – August 29, 2004) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest who founded, in 1961, what has become the largest multi-function social service agency in Canada, the Catholic Social Services.
In 1988, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Officer in 1998. In 1990, he was appointed an honorary prelate with the title of monsignor by Pope John Paul II.
In May 2008 plans were announced by the Edmonton Catholic School District for the construction of a French immersion elementary school in Monsignor Irwin's name. September 2010 will mark the inaugural school year for the elementary school. The school was opened on October 7, 2010 with his nieces and nephews present.
Watch the Tony-winning performer develop a wide-range of physical movement with only a few props.
Bill Irwin is one of the most impressive performers in the business. Dramatically, he has wowed audiences with stirring turns in plays like ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (for which he won a Tony Award) and ''Waiting for Godot'' (in separate productions, he's played both Lucky and Vladimir), among others. On the polar opposite end of the spectrum, he's made us laugh uproariously as a gifted clown and physical comedian in ''Old Hats'' and ''Fool Moon''. Now finishing up a run in Irish Repertory Theatre's ''On Beckett'', Irwin recently gave us a crash course in physical comedy that's bound to give you a trippingly good laugh while also stoking your imagination.
published: 31 Oct 2018
Comedy Genius -- The Regard of Flight -- 1983 -- Bill Irwin in performance
00:00 Introduction
00:27 Curtain open / Bill in bed
02:50 The lean effect which you have just seen
03:56 Now is this 'New Theater'?
04:32 Bill in bed
05:18 Profound and deep-seated mistrust of the proscenium
06:44 Manifesto
07:24 Places for a dance segment
08:14 Free association segment
08:48 Places for a dance segment
09:22 Have you got any hat tricks?
10:23 Places for a dance segment. [slower dance]
11:11 Stark kinetic image segment
11:26 Performance is an aspect of prophecy. It is a leap of faith.
12:22 Warning: costume change. [enter Critic]
13:56 Places for a dance segment
14:25 Warning: costume change
14:58 First homesickness song
-------- 'Home in Pasadena,' Warren/Clarke/Leslie, 1923
17:02 Warning: costume change. [Critic and coats]
17:54 Places for a dance segment. [Critic fight]
...
published: 13 Jun 2013
Bill Irwin opens the Tony Awards 1987
His whole appearance was an in-joke for the audience; he'd just had a big success for The Regard of Flight so THEY (the hip NYC audience) knew who he was but also knew that Middle America wouldn't have a clue. I adore Bill Irwin. For several years he had a contract with the Seattle Rep to develop a new play per year and I got to see a lot of his brand new works in a black box setting.
published: 30 May 2013
Sesame Street: Bill Irwin Break Dances at Bus Stop
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Break Dance at Bus Stop
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published: 24 Jul 2009
Bill Irwin - Largely New York - Tony Awards 1989
Bill Irwin- Largely New York - Tony Awards 1989
published: 08 Feb 2011
Bill Irwin and David Shiner in a scene from Fool Moon with interview
The tremendous pairing of two of the world's greatest clowns. They had a big hit with this in '93 on Broadway and toured it all over. What a team!
published: 30 May 2013
Dance Collaboration: Tiler Peck and Bill Irwin at Vail International Dance Festival
A behind-the-scenes look at this awesome collaboration between Tiler Peck & Bill Irwin.
"Nobody works harder than Tiler. But she works hard and then she has fun." -Bill Irwin
Time It Was / 116 premiered at Vail International Dance Festival 2015.
Video by Nel Shelby Productions
published: 19 Aug 2015
Bill Irwin - 45 Second King Lear - Joe's Pub (11.17.11)
Approriately for the downdown home of the New York Shakespeare Festival, Bill Irwin gives a crash course in Lear.
Video by Kevin Yatarola http://www.kebya.com
Watch the Tony-winning performer develop a wide-range of physical movement with only a few props.
Bill Irwin is one of the most impressive performers in the bu...
Watch the Tony-winning performer develop a wide-range of physical movement with only a few props.
Bill Irwin is one of the most impressive performers in the business. Dramatically, he has wowed audiences with stirring turns in plays like ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (for which he won a Tony Award) and ''Waiting for Godot'' (in separate productions, he's played both Lucky and Vladimir), among others. On the polar opposite end of the spectrum, he's made us laugh uproariously as a gifted clown and physical comedian in ''Old Hats'' and ''Fool Moon''. Now finishing up a run in Irish Repertory Theatre's ''On Beckett'', Irwin recently gave us a crash course in physical comedy that's bound to give you a trippingly good laugh while also stoking your imagination.
Watch the Tony-winning performer develop a wide-range of physical movement with only a few props.
Bill Irwin is one of the most impressive performers in the business. Dramatically, he has wowed audiences with stirring turns in plays like ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (for which he won a Tony Award) and ''Waiting for Godot'' (in separate productions, he's played both Lucky and Vladimir), among others. On the polar opposite end of the spectrum, he's made us laugh uproariously as a gifted clown and physical comedian in ''Old Hats'' and ''Fool Moon''. Now finishing up a run in Irish Repertory Theatre's ''On Beckett'', Irwin recently gave us a crash course in physical comedy that's bound to give you a trippingly good laugh while also stoking your imagination.
00:00 Introduction
00:27 Curtain open / Bill in bed
02:50 The lean effect which you have just seen
03:56 Now is this 'New Theater'?
04:32 Bill in bed
05:18 Prof...
00:00 Introduction
00:27 Curtain open / Bill in bed
02:50 The lean effect which you have just seen
03:56 Now is this 'New Theater'?
04:32 Bill in bed
05:18 Profound and deep-seated mistrust of the proscenium
06:44 Manifesto
07:24 Places for a dance segment
08:14 Free association segment
08:48 Places for a dance segment
09:22 Have you got any hat tricks?
10:23 Places for a dance segment. [slower dance]
11:11 Stark kinetic image segment
11:26 Performance is an aspect of prophecy. It is a leap of faith.
12:22 Warning: costume change. [enter Critic]
13:56 Places for a dance segment
14:25 Warning: costume change
14:58 First homesickness song
-------- 'Home in Pasadena,' Warren/Clarke/Leslie, 1923
17:02 Warning: costume change. [Critic and coats]
17:54 Places for a dance segment. [Critic fight]
20:38 The rise of the actor as poet / liberation from the empty polish of conventional theater
21:06 Trunk business / imagery discussion / John the Baptist / Samuel Beckett
23:56 Second homesickness song
-------- 'When You're a Long, Long Way from Home,' Lewis/Meyer, 1914
25:54 Disguise / Find a NEW New Theater
28:18 Environmental staging
28:44 Use the device! / One of the deceptions of the bourgeois theater
30:02 I would like to involve you in the work at this time
31:29 We can create a New Theater without the baggage
32:46 Shakespeare! For a New Theater!
33:50 Trunk business
34:32 Will you my lord attend within the nobles France and Burgundy?
37:23 You cue the music when you're ready
38:58 Don't come--it's a trap!
40:44 This is Eddy [ventriloquist act]
42:44 Pantomime clown gets direction
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
14:58 First homesickness song
HOME IN PASADENA
(Words: Edgar Leslie/Grant Clarke, Music: Harry Warren, 1923)
Home in Pasadena,
Home where grass is greener;
Where honey bees hum melodies
And orange trees scent the breeze.
I wanna be a Home-Sweet-Homer,
And there I'll settle down
Beneath the palms
In someone's arms
In Pasadena, Pasadena town.
Gonna be an aggregation
Waitin' for me at the station
Pasadena town, Pasadena town
Oh, I want to be a roamer
Now with time to think it over
I want to settle down
Yes, I want to settle down
Oh, honey bees
Little bumblebees
Oh, mellow syncopated melodies
I know ????? [orange?] trees are softly swinging
While birds are sweetly singing in the breeze
I want to be a happy Home-Sweet-Homer
Never want to be a roamer
Pasadena town, Pasadena town
There away from all the worries
Of the city's hurry scurries
Every evening when the sun goes down
Beneath the ????? [... palm trees?]
Someone's captivatin' fascinatin' arms of...
[The Actor runs out of breath.]
See Also:
Billy Murray and Ed Smalle - Home in Pasadena (1924)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z32AEuLEilc
Murray and Smalle sing:
Gonna be an aggregation -- Waitin' for me at the station
In Pasadena town, in Pasadena town
Home [?] I long to be a rover -- Now each time I think it over
I want to settle down -- I want to settle down
Where honey -- Busy little bumblebees
Hum mellow, syncopated melodies
And orange trees are slowly swinging
While birds are softly singing on the breeze
I want to be a happy Home-Sweet-Homer
Never want to be a roamer
From Pasadena town, from Pasadena town
There away from all the worry of the city's hurry-burry
Every evening when the sun goes down
Beneath those spoony-Juney honeymoony palms
In someone's captivating fascinating arms
I'll be in P-a-s-a-d-e-n-a t-o-w-n, Pasadena town.
I'm going home.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
23:56 Second homesickness song
WHEN YOU'RE A LONG, LONG WAY FROM HOME
(Words: Sam M. Lewis, Music: Geo. W. Meyer, 1914)
[Skipping the first two stanzas.]
When you're a long, long way from home -- It makes you feel like you're alone
Its hard to find a pal that's true -- That you can tell your troubles to
And when you send a letter home -- Your mother's voice rings in your ears
And then you'll cross the T's with kisses -- While your pen gets busy
And then you'll dot the I's with tears -- And all your sunshine turns to gloom
When you're a long, long way from home -- oh, yeah
When you're a long, long way from home -- from home -- from home
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
From www.bill-irwin.com:
"The Regard of Flight (PBS, Great Performances), on and off Broadway, across the U.S. and in Sydney, Australia (Off-Broadway c.1983, Broadway 04/07-26/1987)"
New York Times review from 1987:
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/13/the...
Playbill information from 1987:
http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Det...
"Synopsis: Creator Bill Irwin stars in an evening of physical comedy in the vaudeville tradition, featuring costars M.C. O'Connor and Doug Skinner."
Los Angeles Times review from 1991:
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-07-1...
'The Regard of Flight' at www.librarymedia.org:
http://librarymedia.org/MacArthur_Vids/Titles/regard_of_flight.htm
00:00 Introduction
00:27 Curtain open / Bill in bed
02:50 The lean effect which you have just seen
03:56 Now is this 'New Theater'?
04:32 Bill in bed
05:18 Profound and deep-seated mistrust of the proscenium
06:44 Manifesto
07:24 Places for a dance segment
08:14 Free association segment
08:48 Places for a dance segment
09:22 Have you got any hat tricks?
10:23 Places for a dance segment. [slower dance]
11:11 Stark kinetic image segment
11:26 Performance is an aspect of prophecy. It is a leap of faith.
12:22 Warning: costume change. [enter Critic]
13:56 Places for a dance segment
14:25 Warning: costume change
14:58 First homesickness song
-------- 'Home in Pasadena,' Warren/Clarke/Leslie, 1923
17:02 Warning: costume change. [Critic and coats]
17:54 Places for a dance segment. [Critic fight]
20:38 The rise of the actor as poet / liberation from the empty polish of conventional theater
21:06 Trunk business / imagery discussion / John the Baptist / Samuel Beckett
23:56 Second homesickness song
-------- 'When You're a Long, Long Way from Home,' Lewis/Meyer, 1914
25:54 Disguise / Find a NEW New Theater
28:18 Environmental staging
28:44 Use the device! / One of the deceptions of the bourgeois theater
30:02 I would like to involve you in the work at this time
31:29 We can create a New Theater without the baggage
32:46 Shakespeare! For a New Theater!
33:50 Trunk business
34:32 Will you my lord attend within the nobles France and Burgundy?
37:23 You cue the music when you're ready
38:58 Don't come--it's a trap!
40:44 This is Eddy [ventriloquist act]
42:44 Pantomime clown gets direction
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
14:58 First homesickness song
HOME IN PASADENA
(Words: Edgar Leslie/Grant Clarke, Music: Harry Warren, 1923)
Home in Pasadena,
Home where grass is greener;
Where honey bees hum melodies
And orange trees scent the breeze.
I wanna be a Home-Sweet-Homer,
And there I'll settle down
Beneath the palms
In someone's arms
In Pasadena, Pasadena town.
Gonna be an aggregation
Waitin' for me at the station
Pasadena town, Pasadena town
Oh, I want to be a roamer
Now with time to think it over
I want to settle down
Yes, I want to settle down
Oh, honey bees
Little bumblebees
Oh, mellow syncopated melodies
I know ????? [orange?] trees are softly swinging
While birds are sweetly singing in the breeze
I want to be a happy Home-Sweet-Homer
Never want to be a roamer
Pasadena town, Pasadena town
There away from all the worries
Of the city's hurry scurries
Every evening when the sun goes down
Beneath the ????? [... palm trees?]
Someone's captivatin' fascinatin' arms of...
[The Actor runs out of breath.]
See Also:
Billy Murray and Ed Smalle - Home in Pasadena (1924)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z32AEuLEilc
Murray and Smalle sing:
Gonna be an aggregation -- Waitin' for me at the station
In Pasadena town, in Pasadena town
Home [?] I long to be a rover -- Now each time I think it over
I want to settle down -- I want to settle down
Where honey -- Busy little bumblebees
Hum mellow, syncopated melodies
And orange trees are slowly swinging
While birds are softly singing on the breeze
I want to be a happy Home-Sweet-Homer
Never want to be a roamer
From Pasadena town, from Pasadena town
There away from all the worry of the city's hurry-burry
Every evening when the sun goes down
Beneath those spoony-Juney honeymoony palms
In someone's captivating fascinating arms
I'll be in P-a-s-a-d-e-n-a t-o-w-n, Pasadena town.
I'm going home.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
23:56 Second homesickness song
WHEN YOU'RE A LONG, LONG WAY FROM HOME
(Words: Sam M. Lewis, Music: Geo. W. Meyer, 1914)
[Skipping the first two stanzas.]
When you're a long, long way from home -- It makes you feel like you're alone
Its hard to find a pal that's true -- That you can tell your troubles to
And when you send a letter home -- Your mother's voice rings in your ears
And then you'll cross the T's with kisses -- While your pen gets busy
And then you'll dot the I's with tears -- And all your sunshine turns to gloom
When you're a long, long way from home -- oh, yeah
When you're a long, long way from home -- from home -- from home
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
From www.bill-irwin.com:
"The Regard of Flight (PBS, Great Performances), on and off Broadway, across the U.S. and in Sydney, Australia (Off-Broadway c.1983, Broadway 04/07-26/1987)"
New York Times review from 1987:
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/13/the...
Playbill information from 1987:
http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Det...
"Synopsis: Creator Bill Irwin stars in an evening of physical comedy in the vaudeville tradition, featuring costars M.C. O'Connor and Doug Skinner."
Los Angeles Times review from 1991:
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-07-1...
'The Regard of Flight' at www.librarymedia.org:
http://librarymedia.org/MacArthur_Vids/Titles/regard_of_flight.htm
His whole appearance was an in-joke for the audience; he'd just had a big success for The Regard of Flight so THEY (the hip NYC audience) knew who he was but al...
His whole appearance was an in-joke for the audience; he'd just had a big success for The Regard of Flight so THEY (the hip NYC audience) knew who he was but also knew that Middle America wouldn't have a clue. I adore Bill Irwin. For several years he had a contract with the Seattle Rep to develop a new play per year and I got to see a lot of his brand new works in a black box setting.
His whole appearance was an in-joke for the audience; he'd just had a big success for The Regard of Flight so THEY (the hip NYC audience) knew who he was but also knew that Middle America wouldn't have a clue. I adore Bill Irwin. For several years he had a contract with the Seattle Rep to develop a new play per year and I got to see a lot of his brand new works in a black box setting.
If you're watching videos with your preschooler and would like to do so in a safe, child-friendly environment, please join us at http://www.sesamestreet.org
...
If you're watching videos with your preschooler and would like to do so in a safe, child-friendly environment, please join us at http://www.sesamestreet.org
Break Dance at Bus Stop
Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization which also produces Pinky Dinky Doo, The Electric Company, and other programs for children around the world.
If you're watching videos with your preschooler and would like to do so in a safe, child-friendly environment, please join us at http://www.sesamestreet.org
Break Dance at Bus Stop
Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization which also produces Pinky Dinky Doo, The Electric Company, and other programs for children around the world.
A behind-the-scenes look at this awesome collaboration between Tiler Peck & Bill Irwin.
"Nobody works harder than Tiler. But she works hard and then she has fu...
A behind-the-scenes look at this awesome collaboration between Tiler Peck & Bill Irwin.
"Nobody works harder than Tiler. But she works hard and then she has fun." -Bill Irwin
Time It Was / 116 premiered at Vail International Dance Festival 2015.
Video by Nel Shelby Productions
A behind-the-scenes look at this awesome collaboration between Tiler Peck & Bill Irwin.
"Nobody works harder than Tiler. But she works hard and then she has fun." -Bill Irwin
Time It Was / 116 premiered at Vail International Dance Festival 2015.
Video by Nel Shelby Productions
Approriately for the downdown home of the New York Shakespeare Festival, Bill Irwin gives a crash course in Lear.
Video by Kevin Yatarola http://www.kebya.co...
Approriately for the downdown home of the New York Shakespeare Festival, Bill Irwin gives a crash course in Lear.
Video by Kevin Yatarola http://www.kebya.com
Approriately for the downdown home of the New York Shakespeare Festival, Bill Irwin gives a crash course in Lear.
Video by Kevin Yatarola http://www.kebya.com
Watch the Tony-winning performer develop a wide-range of physical movement with only a few props.
Bill Irwin is one of the most impressive performers in the business. Dramatically, he has wowed audiences with stirring turns in plays like ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' (for which he won a Tony Award) and ''Waiting for Godot'' (in separate productions, he's played both Lucky and Vladimir), among others. On the polar opposite end of the spectrum, he's made us laugh uproariously as a gifted clown and physical comedian in ''Old Hats'' and ''Fool Moon''. Now finishing up a run in Irish Repertory Theatre's ''On Beckett'', Irwin recently gave us a crash course in physical comedy that's bound to give you a trippingly good laugh while also stoking your imagination.
00:00 Introduction
00:27 Curtain open / Bill in bed
02:50 The lean effect which you have just seen
03:56 Now is this 'New Theater'?
04:32 Bill in bed
05:18 Profound and deep-seated mistrust of the proscenium
06:44 Manifesto
07:24 Places for a dance segment
08:14 Free association segment
08:48 Places for a dance segment
09:22 Have you got any hat tricks?
10:23 Places for a dance segment. [slower dance]
11:11 Stark kinetic image segment
11:26 Performance is an aspect of prophecy. It is a leap of faith.
12:22 Warning: costume change. [enter Critic]
13:56 Places for a dance segment
14:25 Warning: costume change
14:58 First homesickness song
-------- 'Home in Pasadena,' Warren/Clarke/Leslie, 1923
17:02 Warning: costume change. [Critic and coats]
17:54 Places for a dance segment. [Critic fight]
20:38 The rise of the actor as poet / liberation from the empty polish of conventional theater
21:06 Trunk business / imagery discussion / John the Baptist / Samuel Beckett
23:56 Second homesickness song
-------- 'When You're a Long, Long Way from Home,' Lewis/Meyer, 1914
25:54 Disguise / Find a NEW New Theater
28:18 Environmental staging
28:44 Use the device! / One of the deceptions of the bourgeois theater
30:02 I would like to involve you in the work at this time
31:29 We can create a New Theater without the baggage
32:46 Shakespeare! For a New Theater!
33:50 Trunk business
34:32 Will you my lord attend within the nobles France and Burgundy?
37:23 You cue the music when you're ready
38:58 Don't come--it's a trap!
40:44 This is Eddy [ventriloquist act]
42:44 Pantomime clown gets direction
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
14:58 First homesickness song
HOME IN PASADENA
(Words: Edgar Leslie/Grant Clarke, Music: Harry Warren, 1923)
Home in Pasadena,
Home where grass is greener;
Where honey bees hum melodies
And orange trees scent the breeze.
I wanna be a Home-Sweet-Homer,
And there I'll settle down
Beneath the palms
In someone's arms
In Pasadena, Pasadena town.
Gonna be an aggregation
Waitin' for me at the station
Pasadena town, Pasadena town
Oh, I want to be a roamer
Now with time to think it over
I want to settle down
Yes, I want to settle down
Oh, honey bees
Little bumblebees
Oh, mellow syncopated melodies
I know ????? [orange?] trees are softly swinging
While birds are sweetly singing in the breeze
I want to be a happy Home-Sweet-Homer
Never want to be a roamer
Pasadena town, Pasadena town
There away from all the worries
Of the city's hurry scurries
Every evening when the sun goes down
Beneath the ????? [... palm trees?]
Someone's captivatin' fascinatin' arms of...
[The Actor runs out of breath.]
See Also:
Billy Murray and Ed Smalle - Home in Pasadena (1924)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z32AEuLEilc
Murray and Smalle sing:
Gonna be an aggregation -- Waitin' for me at the station
In Pasadena town, in Pasadena town
Home [?] I long to be a rover -- Now each time I think it over
I want to settle down -- I want to settle down
Where honey -- Busy little bumblebees
Hum mellow, syncopated melodies
And orange trees are slowly swinging
While birds are softly singing on the breeze
I want to be a happy Home-Sweet-Homer
Never want to be a roamer
From Pasadena town, from Pasadena town
There away from all the worry of the city's hurry-burry
Every evening when the sun goes down
Beneath those spoony-Juney honeymoony palms
In someone's captivating fascinating arms
I'll be in P-a-s-a-d-e-n-a t-o-w-n, Pasadena town.
I'm going home.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
23:56 Second homesickness song
WHEN YOU'RE A LONG, LONG WAY FROM HOME
(Words: Sam M. Lewis, Music: Geo. W. Meyer, 1914)
[Skipping the first two stanzas.]
When you're a long, long way from home -- It makes you feel like you're alone
Its hard to find a pal that's true -- That you can tell your troubles to
And when you send a letter home -- Your mother's voice rings in your ears
And then you'll cross the T's with kisses -- While your pen gets busy
And then you'll dot the I's with tears -- And all your sunshine turns to gloom
When you're a long, long way from home -- oh, yeah
When you're a long, long way from home -- from home -- from home
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From www.bill-irwin.com:
"The Regard of Flight (PBS, Great Performances), on and off Broadway, across the U.S. and in Sydney, Australia (Off-Broadway c.1983, Broadway 04/07-26/1987)"
New York Times review from 1987:
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/13/the...
Playbill information from 1987:
http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Det...
"Synopsis: Creator Bill Irwin stars in an evening of physical comedy in the vaudeville tradition, featuring costars M.C. O'Connor and Doug Skinner."
Los Angeles Times review from 1991:
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-07-1...
'The Regard of Flight' at www.librarymedia.org:
http://librarymedia.org/MacArthur_Vids/Titles/regard_of_flight.htm
His whole appearance was an in-joke for the audience; he'd just had a big success for The Regard of Flight so THEY (the hip NYC audience) knew who he was but also knew that Middle America wouldn't have a clue. I adore Bill Irwin. For several years he had a contract with the Seattle Rep to develop a new play per year and I got to see a lot of his brand new works in a black box setting.
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A behind-the-scenes look at this awesome collaboration between Tiler Peck & Bill Irwin.
"Nobody works harder than Tiler. But she works hard and then she has fun." -Bill Irwin
Time It Was / 116 premiered at Vail International Dance Festival 2015.
Video by Nel Shelby Productions
Approriately for the downdown home of the New York Shakespeare Festival, Bill Irwin gives a crash course in Lear.
Video by Kevin Yatarola http://www.kebya.com
William Mills "Bill" Irwin (born April 11, 1950) is an American actor, clown, and comedian. He began as a vaudeville-style stage performances and has been noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He has also made a number of appearances on film and television, and he won a Tony Award for his role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf on Broadway. He is also known as Mr. Noodle on Sesame Street's "Elmo's World", and regularly appears as a therapist on Law and Order SVU.
Irwin has created several highly regarded stage shows that incorporate elements of clowning, often in collaboration with composer Doug Skinner. These works included The Regard of Flight (1982), which ran on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in April 1987 for 17 performances.Largely New York (1989), Fool Moon (1993),The Harlequin Studies (2003), and Mr. Fox: A Rumination (2004).Mr. Fox is a production that Irwin has worked on for years, a biography of 19th century clown George Washington Lafayette Fox that also has autobiographical elements. In 2013, he teamed with his occasional partner David Shiner to create and perform in the Off-Broadway "clowning revue-with-music" Old Hats.Old Hats won the 2013 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue.