Comments | chanaleh: The Five-Minute Sorcerer

chanaleh

The Five-Minute Sorcerer

Jul 15, 2005 17:29

Okay, so after almost 5 years of stalling... in anticipation of tomorrow's singthru, and at the prodding of mrmorse... here it is! Based, of course, on the G&S work. Likely not of interest to the uninitiated -- or else could be considered spoilerish, depending on your perspective.

( Don't be disrespecting me, bitch. I'm the tenor. )

g&s, humor, creative, m15m, writing

Comments 17

cycon July 15 2005, 23:02:43 UTC

LOL. Literally. ("ALINE: Meep!") :D

A couple corrections:

CONSTANCE: Forget Dr. Daly, I've found someone even older and mankier! Tra-la!

CONSTANCE: Goddammit, I liked being in love with Dr. Daly. Now I have to love this old pervert.

AHRIMANES: Shyeah. Remember the fine print? Penalty for breaking the contract is... ALEXIS'S LIFE! -- Or, y'know, yours.

AHRIMANES: Shyeah. Remember the fine print? Penalty for breaking the contract is... YOUR LIFE! -- Or, y'know, Alexis'.

chanaleh July 16 2005, 13:23:46 UTC

Re. Constance: You write it your way, I'll write it mine. ;-)

Re. Ahrimanes: Aaaaaaactually, hotshot, in my score we have an adapted Ahrimanes scene "19a" scored by David Larrick from text by Gilbert, and the exchange goes like this:

Wells: Avert this terrible disaster / Free me from my vow!
Demons: Free him from his vow / Hear him, hear him now / Ha ha! Ha ha! Ha ha! Ha ha!
Ahrimanes: If thou, audacious elf, will yield / Alexis to my grasp / And let his doom be signed and sealed / In Death's unpleasant clasp / Or, if thou will consent, thyself / To come below with me / I'll grant thy wish, presumptuous elf / I want, or him or thee!

cycon July 16 2005, 14:25:18 UTC

(goes and checks his Bradley)
You are right. I withdraw my correction. (David gave me a copy of his version of that scene once. I swear it's around here somewhere.)

However, I must reiterate that the point of Constance's song is not that she's thrown over Dr. Daly for the Notary, but how unhappy she is for having done so. C/F stage direction "Enter Constance, in tears..."; lyrics:

Dear friends, take pity on my lot
My cup is not of nectar

....

He's everything that I detest

....

Oh bitter joy! No words can tell
How my poor heart is blighted

and so on.

anonymous July 15 2005, 23:33:24 UTC

There's an amusing Isaac Asimov story built around the idea that in the original Sorceror plot, the ending was that everyone would get married, at which point they would immediately fall out of love with each other and the spell would be broken, at which point they could annul the marriages.

dpolicar July 15 2005, 23:34:03 UTC

er... that was me.

No, really. firstfrost July 16 2005, 06:10:30 UTC

While it may also have been you, it was Isaac Asimov first, as his story was published in 1958. :)

Re: No, really. anonymous July 16 2005, 06:31:28 UTC

pblllt.

Thread 5

evelio July 16 2005, 00:09:39 UTC

At the closing night cast party at Stanford the crew all get together and do something like this:

There is a 2 or 3 minute version of Sorcerer, Gondoliers, Pirates, Patience, and Pinafore.
They are a little more PG than yours though.

And just for context the Gondoliers one was knowns as Marco And Giuseppe's Excellent Adventure.

http://www.stanford.edu/~sfterman/savoyards.html

chanaleh July 16 2005, 13:29:21 UTC

"Dude!" "Excellent!" SO AWESOME. :-D

stevie_stever July 16 2005, 01:41:44 UTC

I wonder what this might do to a dude who has seen THIS before he's seen or done Sorceror. I may yet be broken for all time.

chanaleh July 16 2005, 13:45:06 UTC

Sorry, man. I warned you it might be spoilerish. (I just wasn't thinking of "spoiling" in that sense. :-)

coraline July 16 2005, 01:58:27 UTC

that was brilliant :)