| re: Hidden puns in character names - On The Town |
| Posted by: Snowysdad 09:55 am EDT 04/20/20 |
| In reply to: re: Hidden puns in character names - On The Town - Michael_Portantiere 10:09 pm EDT 04/19/20 |
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Where ever Comden and Green were at work look for these insider jokes. A couple of my favorites include all the opera jokes in "Catch Our Act at the Met" from Two on the Isle
Dolores Gray: I'll play Lucia
Bert Lahr: and I'll play sextette
by Don Ameche
D. Gray: No Donizetti
Both: and we'll be putting the wriggle into Rigolett
and Dr. Kitchel the Dentist who writes songs on his air hose in Bells are Ringing. This comes from Harold Karr, composer of Ethel Merman's then recent musical Happy Hunting who had been a dentist and may very well have gone back to practicing after. Also lots of people in the news at the time mentioned in "Drop That Name." |
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