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| Last Edit: PlayWiz 07:50 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 07:45 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Mentions in musicals - MFeingold 07:18 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| The singer Marion Talley is mentioned in the song "It's You" in "Dames At Sea". Talley was a coloratura soprano at the Met -- about 200 or so leading citizens from her hometown of Kansas City including the Mayor chartered a train to NY and gave tons of publicity to her debut. A telegraph was set up backstage during the opera so her father could send dispatches to the Associated Press. She got reasonable notices that called her promising, but she couldn't live up to all the pre-performance hype and didn't last too many seasons at the Met. Cole Porter's "They Couldn't Compare to You" from "Out of This World" mentions Brünnhilde: After her, I met Calypso, Who was definitely a dipso, Then I fled to Big Brünnhilde, she was German. After snitching Eve from Adam, I attended Call Me Madam And shortly began to nestle Essel Merman. |
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| re: Mentions in musicals | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 09:14 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 09:08 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Mentions in musicals - PlayWiz 07:45 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| And some others: "It's An Art" from Working has the waitress comparing herself to Madama Butterfly (vocalizing a bit of "Un Bel Di") and Carmen (dancing to a pastiche of the opera's final Entr'acte), as well as to a swan dancer in Swan Lake. "Everybody's Girl" from Steel Pier also refers to Carmen, with a quote of the gypsy song that opens Act II. "West End Avenue" from The Magic Show mentions a soprano in an upstairs apartment who "tries to sing the Waltz from La Boheme." "The Germans At The Spa" from Nine quotes the iconic opening figure from Tristan Und Isolde at the lyric "be sure there's lots of German music playing." There's "Catch Our Act At The Met" from Two On The Aisle, and As Thousands Cheer has a number about the new donors at the old Met (with a quote from Pagliacci near the end. The latter revue also has a bizarre but funny scene where a radio broadcast of Lucia Di Lammermoor, a family radio drama, and a mustard sauce commerical vie for airtime simultaneously. In Passion, Lt. Torasso is an opera fan who decries the terrible local productions, singing a line from L'Elisir d'Amore. In "Come Up To My Place" from On The Town, when Chip suggests going to the now-defunct Hippodrome, Hildy explains that "Aida sang an A and blew the place away." In Carnival during "The Rich," Marguerite (the diva puppet) makes claims of her singing "Carmen in Aida", her Barbara of Seville, and "The Madame in Butterfly." The aforementioned "The 3 B's" from On Your Toes not only has the reference to Lady Macbeth From Minsky (no possessive on the name), but also "Puccini wrote 'Poor Butterfly.'" And a very honorable mention to Jonathan Tunick's clever throwing in the opening horn figure from Der Rosenkavalier at the final modulation in "A Weekend In The Country." Inexplicably and unforgivingly, the most recent Broadway revival cut that modulation, throwing away Tunick's fun quote with the bathwater. |
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| re: Mentions in musicals | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 09:19 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Mentions in musicals - Chromolume 09:08 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| Also "Johnny One Note" mentions "Aida" as well. | |
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| re: Mentions in musicals | |
| Posted by: andPeggy 08:35 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Mentions in musicals - PlayWiz 07:45 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| If we're going just with a mention: What a Waste from Wonderful Town Kid from Cape Cod Fisherman's family Marvelous singer Big baritone Rented his boat Paid for his lessons Starved for his studies Down to the bone Came to New York Aimed at the opera Sing "Rigoletto" his wish At the Fulton Market now he yells, "Fish!" |
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