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| re: Try "Love Me Tonight" - it's incredibly witty, funny, tuneful and delightful nm | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 05:40 pm EDT 08/25/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Try "Love Me Tonight" - it's incredibly witty, funny, tuneful and delightful nm - Ann 01:57 pm EDT 08/25/21 | |
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| I believe it was a term of endearment back then. I think Rodgers, Hart, and Chevalier immortalized the word with the song in Love Me Tonight, and it became one of Chevalier's signature songs. Jule Styne used the word in a song in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and then made a reference to Chevalier's use of it in a song from Do Re Mi. | |
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| re: Try "Love Me Tonight" - it's incredibly witty, funny, tuneful and delightful nm | |
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| Posted by: PlayWiz 05:51 pm EDT 08/25/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Try "Love Me Tonight" - it's incredibly witty, funny, tuneful and delightful nm - BroadwayTonyJ 05:40 pm EDT 08/25/21 | |
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| In opera, Mimi in "La Boheme" sings in her aria "Mi chiamano Mimi" which means literally "they call me Mimi", and she goes on to sing that she doesn't know why, because her real name is Lucia! (Me as either Marcello or Schaunard, waiting off-stage numerous times for the soprano to finish her aria and get her applause, which is the cue to call for Rodolfo and sing about Cafe Momus!). | |
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| re: Try "Love Me Tonight" - it's incredibly witty, funny, tuneful and delightful nm | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 07:29 pm EDT 08/25/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Try "Love Me Tonight" - it's incredibly witty, funny, tuneful and delightful nm - PlayWiz 05:51 pm EDT 08/25/21 | |
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| I think it's delightful the way Rodgers and Hart introduce the song in Love Me Tonight, although it's a little cheeky because Maurice is a common tailor and he doesn't know that Jeanette is a princess. | |
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| re: Try "Love Me Tonight" - it's incredibly witty, funny, tuneful and delightful nm | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 09:08 pm EDT 08/25/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Try "Love Me Tonight" - it's incredibly witty, funny, tuneful and delightful nm - BroadwayTonyJ 07:29 pm EDT 08/25/21 | |
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| That whole sequence is wonderful, starting with Jeanette's entrance, singing "Lover" on, and, at times, to her horse! It's interesting that the song is sung only once through, never even reprised in the musical score, yet it went on to become a standard. That entrance is designed to make the sight and sound of Jeanette singing as enchanting to the audience as she is to Maurice, and I think they succeeded. | |
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| Rouben Mamoulian -- Stage & Film Director | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 09:30 am EDT 08/26/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Try "Love Me Tonight" - it's incredibly witty, funny, tuneful and delightful nm - PlayWiz 09:08 pm EDT 08/25/21 | |
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| Rouben Mamoulian's direction of Love Me Tonight is so incredibly inventive and continues to influence other directors even today. The opening segment of the In the Heights film is an homage to Mamoulian's use of street sounds not only in Love Me Tonight, but also in the play Porgy and in the musical Porgy and Bess. Mamoulian had an interesting career in both theatre and film. His notable works on Broadway included Porgy and Bess, Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Lost in the Stars. Some of his best films are Queen Christina, Golden Boy, The Mark of Zorro, Blood and Sand, and Silk Stockings. The scenic design in his best works is particularly striking. There is also a fluidity and a look in many of his films which is highly stylized, even poetic. He was born in the Georgian area of the old Soviet empire. His family was of Armenian descent so I imagine he would be considered Asian-American. |
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