The first song, It Depends on What You Pay, is from The Fantasticks. Two fathers think setting up the daughter of one to be be rescued by the son of the other from an "attempted rape--I know you prefer abduction, but the proper term is rape!" perpetrated by El Gallo, also the narrator of the show. The fathers are shown to be fairly foolish throughout the show.
The second song, A Difficult Transition, is from Nunsense, a musical put on by--the conceit is--a bunch of nuns who sing and dance and make fun of themselves for singing and dancing. The show is gently satirical of Catholic school upbringings, and perhaps there is some irony to this song I can't detect, to do with the charities of Catholic Americans several decades ago and my mom being taught to pray for all the Communists who were bound for hell. But I can't detect it.
But I'm going to hell anyway because any time I've seen the show, the choreography for "Watusis had their business stuck in everybody's nose" has cracked me up.
The third song, Sobbin' Women, is from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. The manly man who is the lead singer has successfully "abducted" himself a loving wife and figures this is the best advice to give his younger brothers, who are snowed in up in a pass with the women in question. But the men are shown to be idiots--the women successfully fend the men off and treat them like, well, misbehaving boys until they learn their lesson and court the women properly.
So, hm. I have no point, but I wonder if context changes anyone's opinions.
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Date: 2006-12-20 01:48 am (UTC)The second song, A Difficult Transition, is from Nunsense, a musical put on by--the conceit is--a bunch of nuns who sing and dance and make fun of themselves for singing and dancing. The show is gently satirical of Catholic school upbringings, and perhaps there is some irony to this song I can't detect, to do with the charities of Catholic Americans several decades ago and my mom being taught to pray for all the Communists who were bound for hell. But I can't detect it.
But I'm going to hell anyway because any time I've seen the show, the choreography for "Watusis had their business stuck in everybody's nose" has cracked me up.
The third song, Sobbin' Women, is from Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. The manly man who is the lead singer has successfully "abducted" himself a loving wife and figures this is the best advice to give his younger brothers, who are snowed in up in a pass with the women in question. But the men are shown to be idiots--the women successfully fend the men off and treat them like, well, misbehaving boys until they learn their lesson and court the women properly.
So, hm. I have no point, but I wonder if context changes anyone's opinions.