A whoooooooole lot of pictures

To my credit, I purchased a disc of over 800 pictures from the photographer so I really showed a great deal of restraint.

Here are some of my favorites:

Algernon (Jadon) and Jack (Braeden) conversing in their British accents and looking like dandies.

Jack trying to recover his cigarette case

Jack (posing as Earnest) and his lady love, Gwendolyn

Jack proposes and is accepted. (They didn't wear khaki dockers in Victorian England but they were the pants long enough for Braeden's legs.)

...but then Lady Bracknell, Gwendolyn's mother, objects...there's the matter of his not knowing who his parents are and being found in a handbag at Victoria station as a baby (Brighton Line).

Gwendolyn comes back to find out where Jack's country estate is located...Algernon eavesdrops and gets the address.

Algernon shows up--posing as Earnest--and meets Jack's ward Cecily who is "very pretty and just eighteen".

Jack is faking the death of his fake brother Earnest to Dr. Chasuble and Miss Prism

But Earnest isn't dead after all!  Cecily encourages a reconciliation between the two "brothers." Jack squeezes Algernon's hand a little harder than necessary.

Cecily instructs "Earnest" on their engagement which happened months before they ever met (in her mind).

Cecily and Gwendolyn meet and instantly like each other.

Until they find out they are both engaged to Earnest

They learn neither man is named Earnest.

They immediately forgive each other.

but the men are not too happy...

They whistle their way to forgiveness...

And promise to be christened Earnest

Until Lady Bracknell shows up again

She decides she likes Cecily (because Cecily is wealthy) and instructs her in how to hold her chin.

Jack insists he won't allow Cecily to marry unless he can marry Gwendolyn.  One of my favorite lines of the play, when Lady Bracknell still refuses to give her consent (because of the whole handbag situation), Jack says, "Then a very passionate celibacy is all that any of us can look forward to."

But then Lady Bracknell sees Miss Prism and confronts her about what ever happened to that baby...

Jack produces the handbag and yes it is Miss Prism's and she did leave a baby in it...

Mother!

But she wasn't his mother, Algernon's mother was Jack's mother and they are brothers!

Looking in a book about his newly found father, Jack learn his name truly is Earnest.

And they lived happily ever after (except Lady Bracknell wasn't all that happy).

If you're still reading you are either related to me or extremely patient.  Here are two parting shots...the crew:  my darling prop manager front and center.

And the cast:

The End.