think pink!
La Cieca is of course delighted to learn that dear John Waters intends to have Pink Flamingos adapted into an opera — though, sadly, he might as well forget about having the work premiered in his home town.
La Cieca can’t imagine which currently active composer might be up for the daunting task of setting to music the text “Now, Mama, that’s just egg paranoia. I think you’re being very silly. There will always be chickens. Why, there are so many chickens now that we can eat some and let some of them live in order to supply us with eggs. Chickens are plentiful, Mama. The world will never be without chickens. You can be sure of that.”Â
But she (La Cieca, that is, not Babs Johnson) is ready to entertain discussion on how the opera should be cast. And she’ll warn you right now you get zero points for the obvious suggestion of Lauren Flanigan for Connie Marble.
UPDATE: An old favorite, but still the front-runner, so far as La Cieca is concerned.
I nominate Stephen Costello for the part of Crackers.
Well Sir Morosus (comment 57^),yes it is. It could be said ‘his stiff upper lip (Ades) would be was being stretched above his class station’ even for operatic fellatio, especially since it concerned a Duchess, no less!
Your comment opens up the Pandora’s box of British blind hang ups. The British still don’t get it and I do not think they will ever get it. Where the subject pf sex and setting it to music is concerned. ‘Free wheeling sex behavior ‘ to the British attitude always has dark and often sinister tones to it. Subjugation of one form or another on many levels is never far away ‘in the mix’.
Look how little Bennie Britten tackled it. Skating around the bushes, but never confronting it full-frontal. Observe anything a little ‘touchy’ about the British and in the politest of tone, you are told to’ lighten up’ Jeepers! They need to get off their little myopic culture island and have a look back in at themselves. For any British composer …to touch a John Waters work, although I am not enamored of a lot of it,bringing such z hue,would be pure heresy.
The blunt point I wish to make ” Just F##k enough of the British” in bed and you quickly learn their common central mental hang ups.