The composers of “Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice,” Lindsay Warren Baker and Amanda Jacobs, have set up a MySpace page for the play with a few selections from the demo soundtrack. “Fine Eyes,” the first song that will play when you access the page, is sung by Colin Donnell in the part of Darcy; the second, “Not Romantic,” is sung by Jennifer Hope Wills as Elizabeth Catherine Brunell as Jane Austen; and the finale is Colin Donnell, Jennifer Hope Wills as Elizabeth Bennet, Catherine Brunell as Jane Austen, and the rest of the cast. Enjoy!

Pam Ottridge, AGM co-coordinator, asked us to remind those traveling from the U.S. to Canada for the JASNA AGM to be sure to bring your passport! Or you might not get back home! Don’t be calling us to bail you out!

And do look for the Editrix and Cub Reporter Heather L. Keep an eye out for Team Tilney and you’ll find us. We would love to meet AustenBlog readers!

Alert Janeite Jen K. wrote to remind us of something Cub Reporter Heather L. mentioned last week: Theater Ten Ten in New York City, which staged Lynn Marie Macy’s magnificent adaptation of Northanger Abbey last year, will be staging Ms. Macy’s play Innocent Diversions, November 16 through December 16, 2007.

It is December, 1803. Join Miss Jane Austen and her family & friends, who have arrived at Manydown Park, the Hampshire estate of the Bigg-Wither family, for a Christmas celebration. At the persistent urging of her hosts, Jane has consented to be Mistress of Ceremonies and preside over their Holiday theatricals, which are to highlight her own outrageously funny early writings.

Movieweb.com has some more videos with various cast members of The Jane Austen Book Club. They are kind of hilarious because the (male) reviewer is so astonished that he liked the movie, and keeps asking the cast members how to convince his audience to see it, other than the fact that Princess Leia’s stepfather is in it. (That would be Jimmy Smits, who played Senator Bail Organa in Star Wars Episodes II and III, which was pretty much the only thing that kept us from opening our jugular vein with a dull spork while watching those films; that, and a sick fascination with how many elaborate outfits Padme managed to extract from her tiny suitcase after she eloped with Anakin.) Really, is Jane Austen that scary?

Then this review, which is rather lukewarm anyway, has a strange misperception about Janeites.

There are some people who are so crazy about Jane Austen that they know everything about the English novelist’s life (like, how she only wrote six novels or that she never married).

These are not the people who should see “The Jane Austen Book Club,” a super oozy chick flick.

It’s the ones who like Austen-inspired movies including “Emma” or even “Clueless” who will enjoy this tale of Sacramento readers who create a book club in which they read only Austen.

Why in the world would they think those two groups are mutually exclusive? Janeites who really know Jane generally love Clueless, because it really gets Jane. Same with TJABC. It’s not intensive Jane Austen content for Janeite geeks, but it’s infused with her work nonetheless. Why wouldn’t the fanatics love that, as long as it’s done well? Which, of course, is the point: it must be done well. It’s not a matter of modern or period work, it’s a matter of quality.

Ms. Place has officially moved Jane Austen’s World to its new home, and recreated the old blog into Jane Austen Today, which will “explore Jane Austen as we see her today through movies, books, music, fan fiction and the Internet.”

The winners’ names have been drawn in our The Jane Austen Book Club movie poster contest.

Congratulations to April, who won the grand prize of a poster and a copy of the film tie-in edition of the novel and a signed copy of The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World, and also Liane, Robin, Maisy, Ann, Kate, Jenna, Rebecca, Patrizia, and Brenda, who won posters. Thanks to all who entered!