| re: Hidden puns in character names? |
| Posted by: stevemr 03:34 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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| All true. And all have opera connections of one sort or the other. Of course there are lots of other opera names that could have been picked, so let me suggest the possibility that Mazeppa's name was reverse-engineered, so to speak, in order to give Sondheim the ability to rhyme with "schleppa" |
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