So whatever happened to Mr. Lovett?- Page 2

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 12:57pm

What is "dropsy"?
I fear I may have it!
I'll google.....

[artscallion]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 12:58pm

He died from the unnecessary repetition of facts found in this thread.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 1:05pm

"from the Middle English; dropesie, from the Old French, hydropsie, from the Greek, hydrops from older Greeks, hydor meaning water"

It's the lines from bloating when you take your sox off at night. I gues his legs exploded from it, poor thing.

[Kad]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 1:07pm

I feel like, in the movie, something is said about it.

[D2]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 1:14pm

oh for crap's sake

[artscallion]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 1:24pm

Isn't there a movie of this show? Maybe someone can put it on their netflix, watch it and see if there are any clues and get back to us.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 1:30pm

I'm think he died from the unnecessary repetition of facts found in this thread.

[NoHSMisNotAMusical]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 4:07pm

Yeah, the 82 version drops a few lines (the Beadle's line about his daughter) and an entire verse of Pirelli's Miracle Elixir.

[tazber]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 4:33pm

So they dropped the dropsy line?

[sondhead]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 6:30pm

He IS dead in the Wheeler/Sondheim musical. Shortly after "By the Sea," she says:

"You know, it's seventeen years this Whitsun since my poor Albert passed on. I don't see why I shouldn't be married in white, do you?"

And Whitsun, if you're wondering, is the English Christian celebration of Pentecost, which is the seventh Sunday following Easter.

I think perhaps that line is not in the '82 video, but I think it's a wonderful line for her. Both funny and a window into her scruples.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 6:52pm

Thanks to all for the news of Albert and his passing. I deeply regret the omission.

[It's a fine life!]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 7:01pm

Mrs. Pat more is devious in her own way. I like the idea she and Mrs. Lovett are sisters.

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 7:03pm

"You know, it's seventeen years this Whitsun since my poor Albert passed on. I don't see why I shouldn't be married in white, do you?"

Funny, though it's in the script, I have never heard that line in production.

[sueb1863]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 7:04pm

Angela Lansbury also played Mrs. Potts in the Disney 'Beauty and the Beast' movie.

So whatever happened to MISTER Potts??? >_O

I detect a trend...

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 7:06pm

Mrs. Potts is definitely an old tart. She had to invent the "Mrs." for Chip's sake.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 9/6/12 at 12:07am

Multiple choice quiz.

a) He died in a baking accident.

b) He was excecuted for the murder of Edwin Drood

c) He was murdered by vengeful Cretan villagers for spurning their affections

d) He killed himself after realizing that his lifelong hunt for a French parolee was in vain.

e) He o.d.'d while partying with Efraim Levi and Fruma Sarah Wolf.


Updated On: 9/6/12 at 12:07 AM

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 9/6/12 at 4:08am

Wherever Angela Lansbury goes, a dead body always turns up.

Someone really ought to investigate that woman.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/6/12 at 6:15am

Murder, She Caused

[Scripps2]

Posted: 9/13/12 at 5:31am

Albert? 'e was a Pox Doctor's Clerk (to rhyme with lark), not that 'e ever let on to our Nellie, gawd 'elp 'er. She'd 'av been 'orrified 'ad she known. She always thought 'e worked for the Municipal Drainage Company.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 9/13/12 at 10:18pm

Was there ever a Monsieur Armfeldt?

More importantly, what happened to my mother?

thelateorratherlater
henrik egerman

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 9/13/12 at 11:01pm

I think it's clear that Madame Armfeldt was never married and that Desiree was the result of one her numerous liaisons.

And it is mentioned that Fredrik's first wife passed away (I think by Anne, when she's talking about the summer he was so sad and she decided she would marry him to make him happy again).

My question has always been was whether Fredrik's affair with Desiree was before or after his wife's passing? I'm 99.9% positive that the timeline for that is never really set in the libretto, so I guess it's up to the director and actor to make that decision.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 9/14/12 at 10:10am

Oh, no doubt mom is dead, but how? why? and what has it done to me?

I think you're right about Leonora, though.

[newintown]

Posted: 9/14/12 at 10:42am

She had an affair with a lout named Vronsky; it didn't work out well, and she threw herself in front of a train.

Or was that someone else...?

[Scripps2]

Posted: 9/14/12 at 12:21pm

I wonder whatever happened to Joanna's parents?