The Scarlet Pimpernel- Page 2

[melissa errico fan]

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.

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:33pm

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.

[lovepuppy]

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

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

Thanks.

[Enjolras77]

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

a type of flower

[lovepuppy]

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

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

[Enjolras77]

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."

[hannahshule]

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

[lovepuppy]

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

Thank you. :)

[jacobtsf]

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.

[Marguerite Chauvelin]

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.

[Peter]

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.