Trivial Pursuit #101- Page 2

[Ellie3]

Posted: 4/8/05 at 7:31pm

Ooh! Remind me to shave, I don't want Lael getting beard-rash.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 4/8/05 at 7:31pm

Ellie and Lael, this is for you:

WITH SO LITTLE TO BE SURE OF


HAPGOOD:
With so little to be sure of,
If there's anything at all.
If there's anything at all.
I'm sure of here and now and us together.
All I'll ever be I owe you,
If there's anything to be.
Being sure enough of you
Makes me sure enough of me.
Thanks for everything we did,
Everything that's past,
Everything's that's over too fast.
None of it was wasted,
All of it will last:
Everything that's here and now and us together!
It was marvelous to know you
And it isn't really through.
Crazy business this, this life we live in-
Can't complain about the time we're given-
With so little to be sure of in this world,
We had a moment!
A marvelous moment!

FAY:
A marvelous moment!
A beautiful time.

I need you more than I can say.
I need you more than just today.
I guess I need you more than you need me.
And yet I'm happy.
All I'll ever be I owe you.

HAPGOOD:
The more I memorize your face,

FAY:
If there's anything to be.

HAPGOOD:
The more I never want to leave.

FAY:
Being sure enough of you
Made me sure enough of me.

HAPGOOD:
Come with me, Fay.
(The following is sung
SIMULTANEOUSLY)

FAY:
Thanks for everything we did,
...
Everything that's past,
Everything's that's over
Too fast.
None of it was wasted.
...
All of it will last:
...

HAPGOOD:
...
There's more to love
In me right now
Than all the bit of love
I've known before.
...
None of it was wasted.
...
All of it will last:

BOTH:
Everything that's here and now and us together!
It was marvelous to know you
And it's never really through.
Crazy business this, this life we live in-
Can't complain about the time we're given-
With so little to be sure of in this world,

FAY:
Hold me.
Hold me.


Music and Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim

Copyright © ASCAP. All rights reserved.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 4/8/05 at 7:34pm

You missed the song lyrics?

They were coming! They were coming!

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 4/8/05 at 7:34pm

Ooops! Spoke TOO soon!


The Trivial Pursuit Contestmaster is DEAD--

LONG LIVE the Trivial Pursuit Contestmaster!!!



(BTW, GREAT JOB Paradox).

[LaeloftheLakes]

Posted: 4/8/05 at 7:36pm

Well done, darling! It was a divine virgin foray into the trivial mists.





Well, there's a sentence I don't use every day!

[paradox_error]

Posted: 4/8/05 at 7:37pm

Thanks Mary_Ethel.

You leave very hard shoes to fill! I hope I can do your job justice!

And thankYOU Captain_Obvious. It's very appreciated!

[paradox_error]

Posted: 4/8/05 at 7:44pm

And Mary_Ethel.

Trivial Pursuits have long been one of my Favourite parts of BWW, so it has ABSOLUTELY made my year to carry on the tradition!


LONG LIVE MARY_ETHEL, THE GREATEST CONTESTMASTER WE'VE EVER HAD!!!

[LaeloftheLakes]

Posted: 4/8/05 at 7:46pm

Hear, hear!

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 4/8/05 at 9:00pm

Ah, I bet you say that to ALL the BWW Contestmasters...

[magruder]

Posted: 4/8/05 at 9:17pm

How about a little Trivial Pursuit #101-a:

- Name the two titles that the authors considered for the show, before settling on Anyone Can Whistle.

- Who was summoned in as a possible out-of-town replacement for Angela Lansbury?

- Which cast member fell into the orchestra pit in Philadelphia, killing a musician?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/8/05 at 9:35pm

Kill the posting of song lyrics Paradox. It's an affectation of MahemE's that was extremely annoying. Don't allow her to clone you.

Create your own trivia, in your own way. Be original.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 4/8/05 at 9:59pm

"Don't allow her to clone you."


Jose', I THINK you mean "Don't become a clone of ME."


Green is NOT a good color for you, Jose'.


Back to your Broadway Puzzlers...

[paradox_error]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 6:19am

Trivial Pursuit #101a

- The Natives are Restless and Side Show (which would later be taken by another wonderful, but not so successful show)

- Nancy Walker to replace Angie

- Tucker Smith fell into the Orchestra, landing on a musician, who died a week later.

[magruder]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 6:36am

All correct, of course!

For your bonus question, can you give us the full name of The Lady from Lourdes? (The boys are CRAZY for the Lady from Lourdes).

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 6:42am

Colette Antoinette Alouette Minstinguette Alfabette.

(I "researched" it. I admit it.)

[paradox_error]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 6:45am

Thanks for that one, Police Chief Magruder.

How am I supposed to remember this name:

Colette Antoinette Alouette Minstinguette Alfabette

[magruder]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 6:46am

That's the one! All the way from Lourdes to investigate the other baby miracles.

OK, here's another question. There is a scene change in Act One that Cora Hoover Hooper calls to a halt. Why?

[paradox_error]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 6:47am

Updated On: 4/9/05 at 06:47 AM

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 6:53am

Hmmm. So the cast can sit on chairs with programs and applaud the audience?

[paradox_error]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 6:57am

I'm probably not correct, seeing as it's Schub, not Cora, but in SIMPLE, Schub yells:

"Stop the music!"

Angry that a man (though Hapgood soon corrects him, woman) has switched groups...

That's all I can htink of...

[magruder]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 7:03am

This is such a minor moment in the show, but it amused me when I first encountered the script for Anyone Can Whistle. The scene change is proceeding, but she stops it because she has trouble with one of her gloves. Once she's ready, the scene change proceeds.

OK, one last question. There's a sly reference to an early Laurents-Sondheim show in Anyone Can Whistle. What is it?

[paradox_error]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 7:10am

" At the end of the act, Fay destroys the Cookies' records one by one, "freeing" them by erasing their identities as mental patients. The "Don't Ballet" is a musical and choreographic dramatization of this concept, as we see each Cookie break free and dance around the stage when his record is destroyed. The "Don't Ballet" (reportedly written by dance arranger Betty Walberg, not by Sondheim) is an extremely long, very strange piece that has often been cut or cut down in later productions. It starts with a parody of Gershwin's American in Paris played by a muted trumpet, then moves into the accompaniment vamp from "Everybody Says Don't." At one point, it imitates the West Side Story prologue musically and percussively, and it's unclear whether this is an intentional imitation, as a joke or maybe as some kind of commentary on theatre dance music at the time (this was seven years after West Side Story opened), or if Walberg did this unconsciously. She uses lots of heavy jazz chords which again sound more like Bernstein's West Side Story music than like Sondheim's music for Anyone Can Whistle. It all ends with another quotation of the American in Paris imitation, first by the trumpets then the piccolo. It even ends with big, full orchestral Gershwin chords."

[magruder]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 7:17am

Actually, something even more obvious... referring to a different Sondheim-Laurents show.

[paradox_error]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 7:20am

Oh god!

It is much more obvious! I just remembered!

Baby Joan

[magruder]

Posted: 4/9/05 at 7:21am

You got it! Smile, baby!