Question: ZIP
Question: ZIP
Question: ZIP#0
Posted: 4/26/05 at 11:28amIn the song Zip, the lyric "Will They Make the Metropolitan pay?", what exactly is this referring too. My friend wrote Ken Mandelbaum and even he only had ideas, but nothing solid. Anyone have any guesses or ideas?
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
re: Question: ZIP#1
Posted: 4/26/05 at 11:43am
Funny, I used to do this number in my act as well. The audience members tossed a napkin in the air everytime I said ZIP. The place was knee deep by the end of the song.
And you know, I have NO IDEA what that line means either...
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
re: Question: ZIP#3
Posted: 4/26/05 at 11:52am*catches napkin and uses it to wipe nose....recycling*
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
re: Question: ZIP#5
Posted: 4/26/05 at 11:57am
One has to presume something, and I presumed that The Metropolitan Museum was free at some point, and there was a debate whether to charge admission or not to defray expenses.
I think I came to this because, lo these many years ago, the Brooklyn Museum was free--as in walk through the door and you're in free. When I lived near it, it was the best entertainment in the neighborhood. There was also a raging debate then whether to charge or not. The fear was that it would lose its mission.
I could be very wrong, but that won't be a first.
re: Question: ZIP#6
Posted: 4/26/05 at 11:59am
Zip! Walter Lippman wasn't brilliant today.
Zip! Will Saryan ever write a great play?
Zip! I was reading Schopenhauer last night.
Zip! And I think that Schopenhauer was right.
I don't want to see Zorina,
I don't want to meet Cobina.
Zip! I'm an intelectual.
I don't like a deep contralto,
Or a man whose voice is alto.
Zip! I'm a heterosexual.
Zip! It took intelect to master my art.
Zip! Who the hell is Margie Hart?
Zip! I consider Dali's painting passe.
Zip! Can they make the Metropolitan pay?
Zip! English people don't say clerk, they say clark.
Zip! Anybody who says clark is a jark!
I have read the great Cabala,
And I simply worship Allah.
Zip! I am just a mystic.
I don't care for Whistler's mother,
Charlie's aunt, or Shubert's brother.
Zip! I'm misogynistic.
Zip! My intelligence is guiding my hand.
Zip! Who the hell is Sally Rand?
Zip! Toscanini leads the greatest of bands.
Zip! Jergens Lotion does the trick for his hands.
Zip! Rip Van Winkle on the screen would be smart.
Zip! Tyrone Power will be cast in the part.
I adore the great Confucius,
And the lines of luscious Lucius.
Zip! I am so ecletic.
I don't care for either Mickey Mouse and Rooney make me sicky!
Zip! I'm a little hectic.
Zip! My artistic taste is classic and dear.
Zip! Who the hell is Lili St. Cyr?
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
re: Question: ZIP#7
Posted: 4/26/05 at 12:07pm
Do you know the movie version?
They "cleaned" it up a bit....
re: Question: ZIP#8
Posted: 4/26/05 at 12:12pm
WOSQ. I'm not sure about that theory. "Will THEY make the Metropolitan pay"? I don't know if that implies free admission for others. Does it maybe have relation to the Dali painting?
Who are THEY making the Metropolian Pay? And for what?
Updated On: 4/26/05 at 12:12 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
re: Question: ZIP#9
Posted: 4/26/05 at 12:34pmDamn, this is gonna keep me awake tonight
re: Question: ZIP#10
Posted: 4/26/05 at 1:01pmAsk Miriam (Onceadancer2). I believe this show is one of her specialties.
re: Question: ZIP#11
Posted: 4/26/05 at 3:13pmEmail Peter Filichia -- even more so than Mandelbaum, this kind of question is right up his alley (and he's very nice, too).
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
re: Question: ZIP#12
Posted: 4/26/05 at 3:25pm
"They" to me, refers to the Powers-That-Be, the Board of the Met Museum.
Someone could also contact the Met Museum and ask then if they are the "Metropolitan" referred to in Zip. If they are, ask what the hell does this all mean.
Or ask Stritch.
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