Have Another Drink My Dark-Eyed Beauty- Page 2

[jmaclover]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 12:24am

Actually, ....I just forgot what I was gonna say!

[MagicToDo82]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 12:26am

Well, THIS is certainly an interesting thread on SO many levels. Fiyero does the dancing? Really? I never knew that! Weird.

[jmaclover]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 12:29am

Fiyero dancing? what?

Are you talking about them moving together as blue diamonds on a green field? That wasn't dancing...

[Merrydothe]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 12:32am

hah!

[MagicToDo82]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 12:32am

Hehehe. I read the novel as well, and agree that it is a little naughty for 8 year olds to be reading. I, of course, enjoyed the trashy elements of it:)

[FabalaCohen]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 12:34am

Actually, I think my sis stopped during the first few chapters.

This is the girl who sat through Rent and the film version of Tommy twice, and likes Contact.

[jmaclover]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 12:39am

Don't we all like contact - oh, I mean Contact. LOL.

The book is very difficult to get through at the beginning but by the middle (where the pictures are if you have that version) it starts to pick up and get very good!

[FabalaCohen]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 10:50am

"The book is very difficult to get through at the beginning but by the middle (where the pictures are if you have that version)"

Is that the version with the show poster as the cover? I have the book club copy, but with the original cover of Elphaba holding Chistery. (However- I must say there is a very nice illustration of Fiyero around the middle. Mmm.)

[jmaclover]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 4:58pm

Umm, it's the copy they sell in the theatre - though I bought it at B&N. It has the Wicked poster on the front, yes.

It also has book discussion questions and a sample one of his other books in it.

[FabalaCohen]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 5:55pm

Ah. I'll have to see that then the next I see a B&N- there's only so much popular fiction a college bookstore can hold.

[ElphieZ]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 7:48pm

I too thought the novel was crap when I read the first 2 chapters. Then someone told me, after the first two crap chapters, its really good! So I read on through. I liked the novel! And I like the sense of humor. Its like shock-value humor. Don't forget the lil-menag you know what...I read and reread and was like, am I reading this right???

And I didn't know it was Fiyero dancing either! Why would they put Fiyero in that number, even if its back, rather than some ensemble member?

[musicalmjk]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 9:05pm

thats such a big suprise in the book, that elphie's the wizard kid. but i guess that's its a suprise if youve never seenheard the show before? the novel's a tough read that first section, is a little boring. but thankfully it picks up after that.

[jmaclover]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 10:06pm

MENAGE A TROIS!

[Up In Won]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 10:52pm

If you listen to the book on tape the first few chapters are better. I have the book too, and it's the tan one with the pivture of Elphie holding Chistery and then Killyjoy is at her side and there are some bees, i think. ANYWAY! I couldn't read teh book because the text was way too small (I'm legally blind...), so I got the book on tape and it's awesome. And, I like how he left then ending open like that so the end of the show is quite possible.

[cutiepie0882]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:15pm

It doesn't just imply. That's a big part to the ending of Wicked. The reason she was soo powerful and different was because she was 'a child of both worlds'. I didn't know that Joel Gray/George Hearn/or whoever is playing the Wizard isn't onstage at that point. That's weird because the actor would have plenty of time to change to his other costume.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:17pm

he's supposed to be younger, silly....

[FabalaCohen]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 1:10am

"That's a big part to the ending of Wicked. The reason she was soo powerful and different was because she was 'a child of both worlds'."

BUT if you notice, Nessa and Elphaba (in the novel) are different physically- Nessa being armless and obviously Elphaba's skin. The normal child, their brother Shell, is the child Melena has with her HUSBAND.

And the novel, Elphaba isn't that strong at magic.

[musicalmjk]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 1:19am

are you sure about shell?

[FabalaCohen]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 3:29am

Almost positive. I need to go reread it...again, but look at the siblings' parentage:

Elphaba- Melena w/ the Wizard. Is green due to the Elixar that Wizard gives to Melena

Nessarose- Melena w/ Turtleheart. Armless.

Shell- Melena w/ Frex. Normal- plus is the son they wanted all along (named in memory of Turtleheart).

[broadway_star_tomorrow]

Posted: 12/4/04 at 3:55am

melena- SKANK