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| Best laugh of the day! | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 03:50 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Pygmalion—do you think professor and Eliza have a chaste relationship - mikem 03:15 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
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| It’s now the Roaring Twenties. Freddy is a bit long in the tooth to be a Bright Young Thing, but he’s still good-looking enough to pull it off. They have plenty of money—no need for Eliza to open a flower shop. Mrs. Eynsford-Hill had a stroke when learning the truth about Freddy’s intended bride, then another (this time, fatal) when Eliza gave birth to a seven month baby. Freddy was, of course, an officer in the war, and with the typical fortune of the brainless, came through unscathed. Eliza, meanwhile, manages their money with the same efficiency she used running Higgins’ affairs. The Professor, bereft of his twin pillars (his mother died in the flu epidemic) that kept order while he studied vowels, is now bankrupt. He and the Colonel have been taken under the wing of a middle aged niece of Pickering’s who runs a variety theatre. The old man had helped her family out when she was child, so she’s repaying his kindness. She doesn’t like Higgins, but while he lacks stage presence, he has a great act in which he guesses the origins of audience members. The Colonel has a comic turn, playing a Mancunian housewife, in full drag, gossiping about her neighbors. Higgins drilled him endlessly until he perfected the dialect. Eliza’s son, Hugh, began talking at nine months and has never shut up. He’s brilliant, inquisitive, impatient, and while only ten, knows he has nothing in common with his father. Eliza doesn’t, either. So one night, when Freddy is out drinking at a bash with Evelyn Waugh and the Mitford sisters, Eliza takes young Hugh to see a show.... Laura |
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| re: Best laugh of the day! | |
| Posted by: mikem 10:28 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
| In reply to: Best laugh of the day! - showtunetrivia 03:50 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
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| Thank you, Laura! I love your sequel to My Fair Lady. The drag Colonel Pickering is a great touch! Now you just need to get them to all go to Coney Island to meet up with The Phantom and Christine... Perhaps the two couples will find that their children were switched at birth! | |
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| re: Best laugh of the day! | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 11:22 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Best laugh of the day! - mikem 10:28 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
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| And drunken Raoul meets equally drunken and unhappily married Gaylord Ravenal at a poker match, and they sit around dissing their show biz wives! Laura, on a roll |
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| re: Best laugh of the day! | |
| Posted by: mikem 11:13 pm EDT 04/25/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Best laugh of the day! - showtunetrivia 11:22 pm EDT 04/23/20 | |
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| That's a good one! Maybe, like TV shows that have cast crossovers, musicals should all exist in the same universe. Then we could see an elderly Marius and Cosette attending Christine Daae's debut alongside Raoul, and stuff like that! | |
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