Tuesday Apr 18, 2006

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*tap tap tap*

This is for Adrienne the Magnificent. Who reads my journal daily, whom I miss terribly, and who just acquired an agent for her manuscript.

ahem


[CINDARELLA'S PRINCE]
Did I abuse her,
or show her disdain?
Why does she run from me?
If I should lose her,
How shall I regain
The heart she has won from me?

AGONY!
Beyond power of speech,
When the one thing you want
Is the only thing out of your reach.

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
High in her tower,
She sits by the hour,
Maintaining her hair.
Blithe and becoming and frequently humming
A lighthearted air:
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-

Agony!
Far more painful than yours,
When you know she would go with you
If there only were doors.

[BOTH]
Agony!
Oh, the torture they teach!

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
What's as intriguing-

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Or half so fatiguing-

[BOTH]
As what's out of reach?

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Am I not sensitive,
Clever,
Well-mannered,
Considerate,
Passionate,
Charming,
As kind as I'm handsome
And heir to a throne?

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
You are everything maidens could wish for!

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Then why no-?

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
Do I know?

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
The girl must be mad!

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
You know nothing of madness
Till you're climbing her hair
And you see her up there
AS you're nearing her,
All the while hearing her:
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-

[BOTH]
Agony!

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Misery!

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
Woe!

[BOTH]
Though it's different for each.

[CINDERELLA'S PRINCE]
Always ten steps behind-

[RAPUNZEL'S PRINCE]
Always ten feet below-

[BOTH]
And she's just out of reach.
Agony
That can cut like a knife!

I must have her to wife.

*****

Kudos and kisses to anyone who can tell me where that's from. tongue
VIEW 25 of 25 COMMENTS
jacksalt:
Really?
So what's your favorite show?

My wife's dad is a theatre professor- he built two University programs from scratch, lots of students on Broadway, movies, theatre- and his specialties are Shakespeare and musical theatre.
In fact, the woman who plays Ula in the most recent production of The Producers on Broadway was one of his students. She got replaced bu Uma Thurman in the movie, but she still plays Uma's body double.

My point though... *wheesh... wipes sweat from brow* is that he moved to NYC and left us his musical record collection. We must have 500 records of musical soundtracks, stretching back to the 1950's. Some pretty wild stuff.

And my wife co-directed an Anchorage Childrens Theatre production of Into the Woods a couple of years ago.

It was cute.

'S cool you keep up with your friend Adrienne.
smile
johnlennon:
not only will you get to hear my impersonation of him, i will also buy you a few roofie-coladas ! giggity! lol

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