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| re: Hidden puns in character names? | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 03:22 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 03:21 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Hidden puns in character names? - showtunetrivia 02:27 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| There's also an opera called "Mazeppa" by Tchaikowsky (very rarely done, though maybe still done in Russia). Sondheim also named the other stripper "Electra", which also has an eponymous opera written by Richard Strauss (and she's not a fun character by any means of the imagination). | |
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| Posted by: AlanScott 01:29 am EDT 04/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Hidden puns in character names? - PlayWiz 03:21 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| To give the devil his due, I am almost positive that all the stripper names came from Laurents. There are drafts at the Library for the Performing Arts from before most of the score was written, and it's amazing how much of the show is already there, even without a lot of the songs. No wonder Robbins supposedly said to Laurents out of town that it was his (Laurents's) show, a book writer's show, not the kind of show to which Robbins could make his special type of contributions. | |
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| i assumed Electra was for electricity. | |
| Posted by: dramedy 05:11 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Hidden puns in character names? - PlayWiz 03:21 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| Not the opera, but that makes sense with the other stripper name is an opera. | |
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| re: i assumed Electra was for electricity. | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 06:58 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
| In reply to: i assumed Electra was for electricity. - dramedy 05:11 pm EDT 04/19/20 | |
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| Yes, though of course Electra dates back to the ancient Greeks. Also, of course there is an opera (by Marvin David Levy) based on the O'Neill play Mourning Becomes Electra |
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