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re: Gigi. First preview

Posted by: bodacious 01:12 am EST 01/17/15
In reply to: Gigi. First preview - dramedy 11:29 pm EST 01/16/15

Thanks for the information.
I wouldn't have predicted 'The night they invented champagne' as an Act 1 closing number; the film version doesn't seem to leave one hankering to know what will happen next, as many Act 1 closers do. Does the show nevertheless leave the audience hanging in some way at the end of Act 1?


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re: Gigi. First preview

Posted by: lowwriter 05:00 pm EST 01/17/15
In reply to: re: Gigi. First preview - bodacious 01:12 am EST 01/17/15

Interesting. I've always thought of "Champagne" as one of the turning points of the film.


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I do think that is the major problem

Posted by: dramedy 03:03 pm EST 01/17/15
In reply to: re: Gigi. First preview - bodacious 01:12 am EST 01/17/15

Gigi wins the card game to get gaston to take her to the sea. And that is act 2opener. I just didn't think there was much conflict or cliff hanging in first act. It's a great closing number for act 1, but I think some of the conflict in act 2ahoukd be set up in act 1


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Gigi Act One Closer

Posted by: Erik_Haagensen 10:52 am EST 01/18/15
In reply to: I do think that is the major problem - dramedy 03:03 pm EST 01/17/15

In Lerner's 1973 stage adaptation for Broadway, "I Never Want to Go Home Again" was written specifically to end Act One. As Gigi, Gaston, and chorus cavorted happily upstage toward the end of the number, Agnes Moorehead's Aunt Alicia arrived downstage center, much to the shock of Maria Karnilova's Mamita. That's because Aunt Alicia hadn't left her apartment for years. But she has made an exception once she heard about the trip. She has realized that she might put Gigi into Gaston's bed, which means that such a trip will only compromise Gigi, as there is no agreement/contract in place. She arrives to cut it short, explains her reasons to Mamita, and ends by saying "From now on it's work, work, work; lessons, lessons, lessons" as the curtain slowly falls.


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