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The Scarlet Pimpernel
#25re: 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.
#26re: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Posted: 1/4/06 at 3:33pmI 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
lovepuppy
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
#27re: 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
#28re: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:15pma type of flower
"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
lovepuppy
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
#29re: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:16pmReally? Hm. They wrote a play about a freakin' flower??
"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
#30re: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:17pmIt 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."
"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
#31re: 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~
lovepuppy
Broadway Star Joined: 12/7/05
#32re: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Posted: 1/4/06 at 7:02pmThank you. :)
"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
#33re: 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
Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#34re: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Posted: 1/6/06 at 3:32pmI 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)
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)
Peter
Leading Actor Joined: 5/28/03
#35re: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Posted: 1/6/06 at 3:41pmActually 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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