DROWSY CHAPERONE Question for the Real Fans!

i can do it when i get home if no one else does it first

Don't you mean, "Ms. Van De Graaff, is it true..."

It's a little different from Vandergraff.

Updated On: 10/16/07 at 02:26 PM

Reporter: "Ms. Van de Graaff, is it true you're giving up a successful career to marry a man on the stage?"

Janet: "Yes."

Reporter: "So you won't be returning to the stage, ever?"

Janet: "I shant."

Reporter/man in chair: "You shant?"

Janet: "I shant."

Feldzeig: "I have a question: How can you give up the footlights when you know very well you got greasepaint in your veins?"

Janet: "Oh Victor, if you think this is about vanity, you couldn't be more wrong..."

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Updated On: 10/16/07 at 03:26 PM

In the London version it was:

Reporter: Miss Van De Graff, is it true you're giving up a successful career to marry a man you hardly know.

Janet: Yes, Robert and I met on the lido deck of the Isle de France. He amused me with stories of his father's oil interests, we spooned briefly and then he proposed.

Reporter: So you won't be returning to the stage, ever?
Janet: I shan't

Reporter: You shan't?

Janet: I shan't

Reporter: Can we quote you on that?

Janet: Of course, one more question ... yes

Chaperone: Why in the world would anyone put olives in a gibson?

Feldzig: I got a question, How can you give up the footlights when you know very well you got greasepaint in your veins?

Janet: Victor please...

Feldzig: Janet, Janet I'm begging you, don't go off, stay with the follies , I'll give you anything you want. I'll ... I'll ... oh fine, I'll even put your name above mine on the marquee.

Janet: Oh Victor, if you think this is about vanity, you couldn't be more wrong ... [SINGS] I don't want to show off no more ...



That might not be exact but it is what I heard

Updated On: 10/16/07 at 04:27 PM

By the way...it's veins. Goodness gracious.

Whoops. I'll fix that.

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Wow, you have excellent memories! It's funny, I hear Sutton's voice when I read those lines.

Thank you for sharing that turqoisefish. I agree it closed too soon. I think the advertising just didn't hit the right audience. That was too bad. I know they went through a lot of trouble to put it all together. Maybe it went to London too soon?

They did say they were planning to take the show Internationally. Sometime after the North American Tour so it may come back to London or somewhere nearby if enough people really want the show to return. I hope you get another chance to see.

I've only seen it once but have the CD and love to listen to it. I can't wait for the Tour to come to me, finally. Again, thank you for sharing.

I loved the lines, basically saying, He told her his Daddy is rich, so she spooned with him some and now they are getting hitched! The shallowness of all of this is too sad but still very funny.

Updated On: 10/16/07 at 07:54 PM

"Thank you for sharing that turqoisefish. "




Because no one else ever does, with me.

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I don't remember if it was in the London production, but in NY, right before "Stay with the Follies," Feldzig says, "Dump the mug!"

I love that line.

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You're sure it's not "you're giving up a successful career on the stage to marry a man"?

Does she marry a man on the stage?

What would spoil the ending?

Is the line "give up a successful career on the stage to marry a man"? or "give up a successful career to marry a man on stage"? The latter doesn't make sense to me.