Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for September 22, 2011
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Transcript:
Dad: Hey, Petey! How's school? Petey: It's, um... um um um um um um pfghlh UM ay yiy iyi neememooo... Dad: I think I opened a can of worms. Alice: EW! Can I have one?
What I mean by “inefficient” is that not a lot happens in an opera, but it takes a long time for it to happen.
Princess: Here comes my father, we are surely undone!Stableboy: Yes, here comes your father, we are surely undone!Chorus: Oh, here comes her father, they are surely undone!Princess: If he finds us alone together, he will kill you!Stableboy: Yes, if he finds us alone together, he will kill me!Chorus: Oh, if he finds them alone together, he (the King) will kill him (the Stableboy)!
Then the soprano delivers a ten-minute aria telling the tenor that there’s not a second to lose, and to get on his donkey and flee, and he doesn’t actually leave until she finishes. It’s like lengthy descriptive passages in old novels; I’m tempted to skip over them, just to advance the plot.
I do like the sets and costumes, though…