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#26

re: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:22pm

They cut the only good song: "It's Only Love". Christine Andreas sang the hell out of that song.

I enjoyed Rex Smith in Version 2.0.

#27

I agree. I thought Rex Smith was much better than Terrance Mann...but that could partly be accounted to the book revisions between SP1 and SP2. I also preferred Rachel York over Christine Andreas. I really had an excellent time when I saw this show. I got perusal copies of the script from Tams-Witmark and seriously thought about directing it at the school I was teaching at...but alas I didn't have enough strong male singers or actors to pull it off.

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man

#28

re: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:10pm

Pardon my ignorance, but I've wondered this for years: what,exactly, is a "pimpernel"???

Thanks.

"There is no use trying," said Alice; "one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had the practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." --Alice in Wonderland

#29

re: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:15pm

a type of flower

#30

re: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:16pm

Really? Hm. They wrote a play about a freakin' flower??

#31

re: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:17pm

It was a symbol in the Blakeney family crest..and Percy had a ring with a pimpernel ensignia on it (if I remember correctly). Percy used this symbol to name his heroic alter-persona "The Scarlet Pimpernel."

#32

re: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Posted: 1/4/06 at 6:59pm

"Really? Hm. They wrote a play about a freakin' flower??"

that made me laugh, don't really know why, but it sounds so funny

~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~

#33

re: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Posted: 1/4/06 at 7:02pm

Thank you. :)

#34

re: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Posted: 1/4/06 at 9:23pm

"They wrote a play about a freakin' flower?"

NO...they wrote a play based on a VERY FAMOUS novel about a freakin' flower.

David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel

#35

re: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Posted: 1/6/06 at 3:32pm

I think The Scarlet Freakin' Flower would make a very enjoyable musical. I'd pay $100 bucks for that.

If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....

Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)

#36

re: The Scarlet Pimpernel

Posted: 1/6/06 at 3:41pm

Actually for all of the flack Frank has taken from the critics, the NY Times review of the Longbottom directed version came close to a rave.

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