parterre box

110 comments

• CALLASORPHAN says:

  paddypig, good one and another one that I had not heard.

  on September 8, 2006 at 1:09 PM
• ljc says:

  Fritz Wonder Lick? Adelina Kaupatti? My Cousin Vinay?

  on September 8, 2006 at 9:49 PM
• CALLASORPHAN says:

  ljc, I could have licked Fritz!

  on September 9, 2006 at 9:54 AM
• rysanekfreak says:

  And how could we forget Jessie Normous?

  The first time I heard that one, I spewed and choked at the same time. Nearly died.

  on September 9, 2006 at 11:45 AM
• CALLASORPHAN says:

  yes rysanekfreak, that is so funny. It reminds me of when Jane Egland sang Norma. I read somewhere something to the effect that–”Jane Eglan, last night sang her first Enorma.”

  on September 9, 2006 at 12:18 PM
• ljc says:

  There has to be a pun about that great speaking actor Werner Klemperer doing Klinksor, but I don’t want to type it for cyberspace.

  on September 9, 2006 at 6:01 PM
• ljc says:

  Many decades ago there must have been truckloads of puns about Clara Butt, so I don’t have an original one. There was one critic who so hated Nordica that he never referred to her as anything but “that woman from Maine.”

  on September 9, 2006 at 6:12 PM
• ljc says:

  OK, I forgot the Disney cartoon character, Dame Clara Cluck.

  on September 9, 2006 at 6:17 PM
• paddypig says:

  We use to call her Jesse Enormous or Jesse Norma Desmond after she did Makrapolous Affair.

  on September 11, 2006 at 10:00 AM
• mrsjohnclaggart says:

  Those of a certain UN PC era will remember The Darkie at the Top of the Stairs, La Schwartze del destino, and a singer called The Toilet by so many standees that it used to take me a few seconds to think of her name. Then there was Pigoletta, known to extras and chorus backstage.

  on September 11, 2006 at 3:17 PM