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| re: I never really thought about it before | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 10:33 pm EDT 04/12/23 | |
| In reply to: re: I never really thought about it before - peter3053 09:08 pm EDT 04/12/23 | |
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| The line I see in the original Broadway script is Arthur saying to Pellinore, "What we did will be remembered. You'll see, Pelly." Those lines are not actually in the script from the first day of rehearsal. He also tells Tom, before he starts the final reprise, "And for as long as you live, you will remember what I, the King, tell you; and you will do as I command." That's all I see, unless I'm missing something. I didn't go through the whole script. I just looked in the places where I thought such lines might occur. Of course, there is the first scene in which Arthur comes up with the idea for the Round Table. but he says nothing about the world being round or about hundreds of years in the future. As for JFK, I don't have the Rich book, but it simply didn't try out in D.C., where Rich grew up. And the tour didn't get to D.C. till 1964. |
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| re: I never really thought about it before | |
| Posted by: peter3053 01:25 am EDT 04/13/23 | |
| In reply to: re: I never really thought about it before - AlanScott 10:33 pm EDT 04/12/23 | |
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| Yes, I never saw it in any script, the published one or the one I used from the liscensors when I produced a school production long ago. But the words were spoken by Burton, and were used in the Papermill revival (I had a friend in that one). I suspect the words were cut in the whole business of cutting the show down along the way. I swear to you with my hand held over a stack of Sondheim CDs (a solemn oath), the words were spoken. Arthur said that Merlin, who lived backwards, had told him of that future vision. |
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| re: I never really thought about it before | |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 01:37 am EDT 04/13/23 | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 01:35 am EDT 04/13/23 | |
| In reply to: re: I never really thought about it before - peter3053 01:25 am EDT 04/13/23 | |
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| Those lines are actually in the script that was licensed by Tams-Witmark (at least in the copy I have) and later by MTI. Thanks for bringing this up! I'm sure I have heard those lines, but I had forgotten. So it seems like perhaps, just perhaps, those lines were added after the opening. |
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