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| Posted by: WaymanWong 12:38 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
| In reply to: re: "I Am Going to Like it Here" - keikekaze 04:48 pm EST 12/19/17 | |
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| I'm not AlanScott (nor have his encyclopedic knowledge), but Hammerstein based it on a pantoum, derived from pantun, a Malay verse form. It involves interwoven quatrains, and ''I Am Going to Like It Here'' is just another one of ''Flower Drum's'' enchanting songs. |
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| re: "I Am Going to Like it Here" | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 04:37 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
| In reply to: re: "I Am Going to Like it Here" - WaymanWong 12:38 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
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| Yes, thank you, Wayman--"pantoum" is the word I was looking for. | |
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| re: "I Am Going to Like it Here" | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 12:48 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
| In reply to: re: "I Am Going to Like it Here" - WaymanWong 12:38 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
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| I, like others, have always found it haunting--I remember my mom taking me to the movie when I was a child at the Lake Theatre in Oak Park, IL, and loving the whole show, but the simplicity of the song was so appealing to a child. My mother had grown up with the wife of the advance man for the Rodgers and Hammerstein organization, so when a touring company of one of their shows (or one the organization had produced) came through Chicago, my parents, who at the time were a young couple, poor as church mice, got comps--allowing them to see South Pacific, Flower Drum Song, and The Sound of Music, among others. And they somehow also saw My Fair Lady--as my mother remembered Anne Rogers, who I later saw as Lucille in the tour of No, No, Nanette. Memories. | |
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