Lyn from dovegreybooks Yahoo Group (not to be confused with Lynne from dovegreyreader blog) sent me another little piece of information today – I hope she won’t mind if I quote her email:
The world has waited two centuries for this smart, song-filled & compelling investment opportunity (I’m not joking!)
If you click on the site, you’ll hear Darcy singing about Fine Eyes.
Well. Gosh. Of course, it does seem rather as though one can’t have anything on the stage without a song and dance accompanying nowadays, and it’s a miracle that Austenmania hasn’t led to this before. Bad as the 2005 film was in so many ways, at least it didn’t have Keira doing the can-can singing ‘It is a TRUTH uni-ver-salllllly ackNOWledged!’
But am I too quick to judge? Obviously I would go and see this, even if I expected it to be dire, and I imagine there are enough Pride and Prejudice addicts to make this sell out whatever the quality – but perhaps, just perhaps, it would actually be good? Stranger things have happened. And what if they took a selection of extant songs… how would that go… Lizzie could sing I Don’t Know How To Love Him then Learning To Love Him and finally Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man. Lydia could get I Could Have Danced All Night, and Sixteen Going On Seventeen, while Kitty would have to settle for You Can’t Get A Man With A Gun. And for Mr. Bennet, howsabout If I Were A Rich Man?
More suggestions in a similarly irreverent tone, please!
You know far too many songs from musicals.
I’m sorry, I’m crying from laughter (I actually am!), I can’t think! ….
Ok, one does spring to mind – could Jane possibly sing ‘Singing in the Rain’?
And surely the Bennet girls as a whole would break into a sparkling rendition of ‘Matchmaker, Matchmaker’???
Ooh! Lydia could sing ‘Bring on the Men’ – from Jekyll and Hyde … yes, there is such a thing, look it up on youtube.
I’ll stop now!
Simon – I read this early this morning and nearly upset my cup of tea over my laptop I was laughing to much. What a glorious idea all this is and, as with your post on Re-Reading, this has triggered off such a huge list of possibilities in my mind, that I have to post on this myself.
I will make sure that everyone knows that the original idea came from you!!
Glad it’s inspired you, Elaine – can’t wait to see what you come up with! I did have to take recourse to Wikipedia for song titles.
For Lydia the defiant “Don’t Rain on my Parade”?
Simon – have just posted on suggestions. Do take a look and let me know what you think?
Love the suggestion here about Matchmaker Matchmaker
For Wickham et al;
Thank Heaven for Little Girls from Gigi
Thank heaven for little girls
for little girls get bigger every day!
Thank heaven for little girls
they grow up in the most delightful way!
Those little eyes so helpless and appealing
one day will flash and send you crashin' thru the ceilin'
Thank heaven for little girls
thank heaven for them all,
no matter where no matter who
for without them, what would little boys do?
Thank heaven… thank heaven…
Thank heaven for little girls!
For Lizzie & Darcy – from "Beauty and The Beast":
Tale as old as time
True as it can be
Barely even friends
Then somebody bends
Unexpectedly
Just a little change
Small to say the least
Both a little scared
Neither one prepared
Beauty and the Beast
Ever just the same
Ever a surprise
Ever as before
Ever just as sure
As the sun will rise
Tale as old as time
Tune as old as song
Bittersweet and strange
Finding you can change
Learning you were wrong
Certain as the sun
Rising in the east
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the Beast
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the Beast