| re: Was watching "Can-Can" movie for first time in many years/Gwen Verdon comparison (long) | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 12:05 am EST 11/26/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Was watching "Can-Can" movie for first time in many years/Gwen Verdon comparison (long) - PlayWiz 11:04 am EST 11/25/24 | |
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| Not only was Claudine onstage during "Maidens Typical of France," according to the licensed script (which, more than some others, has plenty of stage directions that seem like they must document the staging in some detail), at the beginning of the song, Claudine was the only one of the girls to manage to get out of the dock. The other girls try to get out and reach the president, but the bailiff holds them back. Claudine runs up to Aristide, "gesticulating wildly at him," until the bailiff manages to get her back in the dock. Here are the other verses of "Her Heart Was in Her Work" that are in the complete lyrics book. Both Porter on that recording, and Lynn Redgrave and Arthur Siegel on the Bagley just choose some of them, and they're not heard in the same order as they appear in the book. Pure Cecelia lived on Saint Street In a room too small by far, Till she met a big dressmaker one day And became his model star. She no longer lives on Saint Street, Now she lives on caviar Her heart was in her work. Sweet Maria was just a runner In a bank extremely swank, But the charming old bank president thought She deserved a higher rank. If no more she is a runner, ’Tis because she runs the bank. Her heart was in her work. So I say to you, young lady, If of marble halls you dream, When a job you get, be the boss’s pet, And you yet may reign supreme. How the other girls will holler, As you enter Chez Maxim, “Her heart was in her [gesture]” When Babette was in the ballet and the “Dying Swan” did do, Mister Pinch, the ballet manager, gave her a nightly rendezvous. Since the “Dying Swan” continues, Mister Pinch is dying too. Her heart was in her work. In a Turkish bath, Yolanda gave massage for twenty per, Till the rich Khedive of Egypt arrived and became her customer. Now that he has bought the bathhouse, the Khedive massages her. Her heart was in her work. So I say to you, young lady, if you wish for great éclat, Follow my advice, to your boss be nice And, in time, believe you moi, When they see your open carriage, they will yell, “Hip, hip hurrah!” Her heart was in her [gesture]” Widow Martin did the cleaning in a hotel quaint and prim, Till her dear employer noticed, one night, that her form was firm and trim. She has ceased to do the cleaning, now that she is cleaning him. Her heart was in her work. Bernadette once played the organ in the Church of Cherubim, Till a chic eccentric purchased the church just to satisfy a whim. Bernadette still plays the organ though the church belongs to him, Her heart was in her work. When Clarissa was a waitress in a restaurant, as it were, Monsieur Dupont, her proprietor, jumped ev’ry time she called him “Sir.” Now that she is Madame Dupont, Monsieur Dupont waits on her. Her heart was in her work. |
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