"Don't Rain on My Parade" origin question
"Don't Rain on My Parade" origin question
lida rose
Understudy Joined: 6/5/10
#1"Don't Rain on My Parade" origin question
Posted: 11/25/10 at 10:55pmSondheim sometimes talks about how he invented the phrase "everything's coming up roses" and then it entered into the cultural lexicon. Is that the case with "don't rain on my parade", or was it an idiom pre-Funny Girl?
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#2'Don't Rain on My Parade' origin question
Posted: 11/26/10 at 4:58pmYes, I remember nuns using that phrase in the 1950's.
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Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#2'Don't Rain on My Parade' origin question
Posted: 11/27/10 at 12:31pmActually, the expression was "Don't piss on my parade", butthe nuns cleaned it up.
#3'Don't Rain on My Parade' origin question
Posted: 11/27/10 at 12:40pmI believe it originated with the musical.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
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