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Englishmen and cliche



In a message dated 3/19/2003 9:21:03 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
Keithjmoon70@aol.com writes:

> >>>For the most part, Roger's part at the and of TKAA has been pretty much 
> the same everytime he sings it.  Pete always has something to say seemingly 
> off the top of his head freestyle.  And it rhymes!  I wonder if Pete thinks 
> of 
> what to say before the show or if he takes a "daring" chance according to 
> how 
> he feels at the moment he says it. It's only a few lines. <<<<
> 
> I used to do musical theatre and Gilbert and Sullivan was my favorite.  
Don't delete yet, I am going somewhere applicable with this.  In Pirates of 
Penzance there is a song "Modern Major General".  The actor who played this 
would take a verse (or two) and change the words in the green room each 
performance to apply to someone special in the audience.  This songs words go 
very, very fast and most of the time he got all the words right but 
occasionally, due to the new verses each night, he'd miss it. 

What Rog and Pete do with TKAA is similar to this.

But, the thing I noticed in Pirates (which was written by Englishmen) was 
that, sometimes in order to make the words fit, phrases would have to be 
twisted around, not always being word for word correct, at least to my 
American speaking ear.

The bottom line is still that he, Rog, took poetic liberty to use the cliche 
cause it fit nicely and had a good ring to it.  Did he know we'd be analyzing 
it?  Nawww.

The only way we will know for sure is to hear it from Roger himself.


Love,
Jo

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