| re: Mentions in musicals |
| 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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