New Vid: "It Depends On What You Pay" (Dollhouse)

[giandujakiss]

Song: It Depends On What You Pay from The Fantasticks
Artist: Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones

Fandom: Dollhouse

Summary: You've come a long way, baby.

Spoilers: Through "Haunted"

Sizes: 30.8 MB (540 x 360 .avi), 13.3 MB (420 x 280 .wmv)
Length: 2:48

Download from Sendspace: The .avi file is here and the .wmv file is here.

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Comments

[giandujakiss]

Actually, The Fantasticks is an excellent musical - one of my favorites. There's a reason it ran for 42 years (and then was revived just a few years after closing). And Stephen Sondheim totally ripped it off for Into the Woods.

In the song, the word "rape" is used as a synonym for "abduction." The singers are plotting to stage an abduction of a girl so as to provide an opportunity for her boyfriend to heroically intercede and save the day. So nothing in the show requires anyone to actually be raped, but the humor of the song was rooted in the use of the word "rape" over and over.

But, that said - I'm glad you thought the vid was well done!

[rachelmanija]

My old theatre professor told me that he was once invited to a production of that show at a Catholic boys' school. The monks had apparently decided that "rape" was too risque, especially since it meant "kidnapping," and so substituted.... "snatch."

A twelve-year-old Catholic boy gleefully sang,

It's a snatch for pleasure
It's a snatch for fun
It's an open little schoolgirl snatch

My professor said one of the very worst moments of his entire life was taking an elderly monk into the men's room and telling him what "snatch" meant.

[giandujakiss]

That is hilarious. And is it okay that I find it a little delightful that the monks didn't know the word "snatch"?

[very_improbable]

...that is mind-blowing.

And I think it is probably the most amazing "It Depends on What You Pay" story possible, but maybe second place is the one related on the talk page for The Fantasticks's Wikipedia entry, in which a community-theater El Gallo dropped the line "I know that you prefer 'abduction' but the proper term is rape" before performing that song.

The audience was very quiet.

[rachelmanija]

Oh dear.