Trivial Pursuit #109

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Posted: 4/23/05 at 3:59pm

What kind of complexion will Billy Bigelow's daughter have?

[Marquise]

Posted: 4/23/05 at 4:00pm

acne prone. and she will resort to using pro-activ solution to get rid of unsightly blemishes on the skin.

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Posted: 4/23/05 at 4:02pm

An interesting answer, and certainly possible, but not the one I was looking for...

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 4/23/05 at 4:03pm

Pink and white
As peaches and cream

[Marquise]

Posted: 4/23/05 at 4:04pm

oops! my bad! this is carousel right?
okay, here goes:
she will have the skin of a girl slapped across the face by her father.
Updated On: 4/23/05 at 04:04 PM

[Marquise]

Posted: 4/23/05 at 4:05pm

peaches and cream?!!!
what is this girl made of? yogurt?!!

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Posted: 4/23/05 at 4:05pm

CONGRATULATIONS, GOV!!!

Well done, on identifying an obscure piece of information from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Masterwork, Carousel.

Carousel opened on Apr 19, 1945, and ran for a total of 890 performances.


For your bonus points:

What song, found in the score of Carousel, was originally written for a different Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical? What was the original name of the song, and what musical was it written for?
Updated On: 4/23/05 at 04:05 PM

[Marquise]

Posted: 4/23/05 at 4:08pm

June is Bustin' Out All Over.
It was originally written for South Pacific for the sailors to sing about a girl named June, it was cut out and then recycled for Carousel and re-written in a different context.

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 4/23/05 at 4:08pm

This Was a Real Nice Clambake was from Oklahoma and called This Was a Real Nice Hayride, I think.

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Posted: 4/23/05 at 4:08pm

Carousel is certainly not a light-hearted musical.

Based on Ferenc Molnar's play Liliom, it has a very dark story, involving spousal abuse, crime and death.

But in the end, good prevails, and a troubled soul can move on. (which is vastly different from the very dark ending of Liliom)

[Marquise]

Posted: 4/23/05 at 4:09pm

Oh okay that one was originally called This Was A Real Nice Roll In The Hay....

[Marquise]

Posted: 4/23/05 at 4:10pm

I love dark endings. They should have kept the original ending.

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Posted: 4/23/05 at 4:13pm

Well considering that South Pacific came after Carousel, I don't really think that was a possibility, Marquise! Another wonderful guess, though!

GOV is CORRECT!!!

This was a Real Nice Hayride was cut from Oklahoma! and later inserted into Carousel with a new title and new lyrics.

Many think this song is the downfall of the otherwise phenomenal score, but that's another thread!!!

Your prize:

A star, a real star, given by a strangely familiar stranger...

But if you don't want it, watch out! This stranger has no qualms about convincing you to take it...

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Posted: 4/23/05 at 4:16pm

SOLILOQUY

Billy
I wonder what he'll think of me
I guess he'll call me the "old man"
I guess he'll think I can lick
Ev'ry other feller's father
Well, I can!
I bet that he'll turn out to be
The spittin' image of his dad
But he'll have more common sense
Than his puddin-headed father ever had
I'll teach him to wrestle
And dive through a wave
When we go in the mornin's for our swim
His mother can teach him
The way to behave
But she won't make a sissy out o' him
Not him! Not my boy! Not Bill!

Bill... My boy Bill
I will see that he is named after me, I will.
My boy, Bill! He'll be tall
And tough as a tree, will Bill!
Like a tree he'll grow
With his head held high
And his feet planted firm on the ground
And you won't see nobody dare to try
To boss or toss him around!
No pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully
Will boss him around.

I don't give a hang what he does
As long as he does what he likes!
He can sit on his tail
Or work on a rail
With a hammer, hammering spikes!
He can ferry a boat on a river
Or peddle a pack on his back
Or work up and down
The streets of a town
With a whip and a horse and a hack.

He can haul a scow along a canal
Run a cow around a corral
Or maybe bark for a carousel
Of course it takes talent to do that well.

Aha-ha-ha-ha!
He might be a champ of the heavyweights,
Or a feller that sells you glue,
Or President of the United States,
That'd be all right, too
His mother would like that
But he wouldn't be President if he didn't wanna be!
Not Bill!

My boy, Bill! He'll be tall
And as tough as a tree, will Bill
Like a tree he'll grow
With his head held high
And his feet planted firm on the ground
And you won't see nobody dare to try
To boss him or toss him around!
No fat-bottomed, flabby-faced,
Pot-bellied, baggy-eyed bully
Will boss him around.

And I'm hanged if he'll marry his boss' daughter
A skinny-lipped virgin with blood like water
Who'll give him a peck
And call it a kiss
And look in his eyes through a lorgnette...

Hey, why am I talkin' on like this?
My kid ain't even been born, yet!
I can see him when he's seventeen or so,
And startin' to go with a girl
I can give him lots of pointers, very sound
On the way to get 'round any girl
I can tell him ...
Wait a minute!
Could it be?
What the hell!
What if he is a girl?
What would I do with her?
What could I do for her?
A bum with no money!
You can have fun with a son
But you gotta be a father to a girl
She mightn't be so bad at that
A kid with ribbons in her hair!
A kind o' sweett and petite
Little tin-type of her mother!
What a pair!

My little girl
Pink and white
As peaches and cream is she
My little girl
Is half again as bright
As girls are meant to be!
Dozens of boys pursue her
Many a likely lad does what he can to woo her
From her faithful dad
She has a few
Pink and white young fellers of two or three
But my little girl
Gets hungry ev'ry night and she comes home to me!

I-I got to get ready before she comes!
I got to make certain that she
Won't be dragged up in slums
With a lot o' bums like me
She's got to be sheltered
In a fair hand dressed
In the best that money can buy!
I never knew how to get money,
But, I'll try, I'll try! I'll try!
I'll go out and make it or steal it
Or take it or die!

Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II

Copyright © ASCAP. All rights reserved.

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Posted: 4/23/05 at 4:17pm

THIS WAS A REAL NICE CLAMBAKE

Nettie:
Dunno as I should've ate those last four dozen clams!

A girl:
Now look here, Orin Peasley,
you just keep your hands in your own pockets if you're so cold!

All:
This was a real nice clambake,
We're mighty glad we came.
The vittles we et
Were good, you bet,
The company was the same.
Our hearts are warm, our bellies are full,
And we are feeling prime.
This was a real nice clambake,
And we all had a real good time.

Nettie:
Fust come codfish chowder
Cooked in iron kettles,
Onions floating on the top,
Curlin' up in pettals.

Julie:
Throw'd in ribbons of salted pork,

Men:
An old New England trick.

Julie:
And lapped it all up with a clamshell,
Tied onto a bayberry stick.

All:
Oh, this was a real nice clambake,
We're mighty glad we came.
The vittles we et
Were good, you bet,
The company was the same.
Our hearts are warm, our bellies are full,
And we are feeling prime.
This was a real nice clambake,
And we all had a real good time.

Enoch:
Remember when we raked them red hot lobsters
Out of the driftwood fire?
They sizzled and crackled and sputtered a song
Fittin' for an angels' choir.

Girls:
Fittin' for an angels,
Fittin' for an angels,
Fittin' for an angels choir.

Nettie:
We slit 'em down the back and peppered 'em good,
And doused 'em in melted butter.

Carrie:
Then we tore away the claws and cracked 'em with our teeth
Cuz we weren't in the mood to putter.

Girls:
Fittin' for an angels,
Fittin' for an angels,
Fittin' for an angels choir.

A guy:
Then at last come the clams.

Guys:
Steamed under rockweed and poppin' from their shells.

All:
Just how many of 'em galloped down our gullets,
We couldn't say ourselves, oh,

This was a real nice clambake,
We're mighty glad we came.
The vittles we et
Were good, you bet,
The company was the same.
Our hearts are warm, our bellies are full,
And we are feeling prime.
This was a real nice clambake,
And we all had a real good time.
We said it 'afore and we'll say it again,
We all had a real good time!


Music: Richard Rodgers
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II

Copyright © ASCAP. All rights reserved.

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Posted: 4/23/05 at 4:19pm

Thanks for playing, and GOOD NIGHT!!!