Mi vida loca, plus a Snapefic update

[fire_everything]

I feel a bit of a churl. For the last month I’ve had just enough spare time and energy to read f-listy posts as they went by, but not enough for the back-and-forth of commenting. This despite the fact that several of you were undergoing crises of fandom identity, making declarations of sexual identity, and posting delightful updates about your

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[kellychambliss]

Oh, god, yes -- a Snape novel? That promises to be well-written? Of course I'm willing to wait for this WIP to P. Bring it on

[fire_everything]

*singing* I get OUT HERE! Buenos Aires! Stand back! You oughta know what you’re gonna get in me…

Sorry, couldn’t restrain myself there. It must have been such fun to do Evita! I can’t remember - does Mrs. Duarte have any solo singing parts? Anyway, you at least got to sing that one song where the all classy people go, “Tart, you better go wait on me at Harrods!,” right?

Oh, I’m glad to hear about the bike. :) So what if it’s a little dinged up? It’s the best bike in the WHOLE WORLD, you know. Everyone wants it! (Especially Dudley Dursley Francis Buxton!) And if you can’t whinge on LJ when things are whingeworthy, then what the hell is it there for?

Heh. I also have a copy of The Things They Carried which I’ve never read! Though that one I’ve owned for only seven or eight years

[kellychambliss]

Lovely -- an "Evita" fan. I had a blast being in that show. There's a LOT for a chorus member to do; I was on stage at least half the running time of the show, maybe more. Being an "aristocrat" was great -- not only did I have a wonderful costume (plumy hat, lorgnette), but the lyrics, as you say, are really enjoyable:

Such a shame she wandered into our enclosure;
How unfortunate this person has forced us to be blunt
No, we wouldn't mind seeing her at Harrod's
But behind the jewelry counter, not in front

Mrs. D doesn't have any actual solo lines, but "Eva's family" gets several nice, threatening bits in the "Eva, Beware of the City" number:

She really brightened up your out-of-town engagement;
She gave you all she had, she wasn't in your contract;
You must be quite relieved that no-one's told the papers. . .so far!

But I (as a chorus member, not Eva's mother) had two (count 'em, two!) solo lines in "Rainbow Tour."

Now I'm wishing I could do this show again.

[fire_everything]

Oh, yeah! I love the army's part in that song, too. "If it's her that's using him/He's exceptionally dim/Bitch!" I love how adult and illusion-free the lyrics are throughout the show, and how cleverly they skewer all the major characters.

Your comments inspired me to put the soundtrack on yesterday for the first time in several years (the Madonna version, 'cause I'm a person of low culture and have barely been exposed to Patti LuPone). After all, I can count this show as part of my ridiculous gringa crash course in Latin American history and culture, right? I looked up the Spanish lyrics in "Buenos Aires," and figured out for the first time that "Florida! Corrientes, Nueve de Julio" are all major streets in B.A. Never say that show tunes are not educational!

[kellychambliss]

I can count this show as part of my ridiculous gringa crash course in Latin American history and culture, right?

You betcha. Line on the vita. Of course I went and read up on Eva while I was in the show -- I figured the play didn't give the most balanced picture. So I learned a lot while doing something just for my own selfish fun (no professional benefit and certainly no money earned).

Madonna did quite a creditable job as Evita, I thought, although, diva that she is, she took ALL the songs for herself, even the one female solo that, in the play, is sung by someone else ("Another Suitcase").

And you're so right about the grown-up lyrics; there are so many great lines (like the bewildered discarded lovers. . ."Argentine men call the sexual shots". . .um, don't they? /g/)

Just a little touch of. . just a little touch of. . .just a little touch of star quality.