già la brunch è preparata
Oh, but this looks dire.
Not the fellow wallowing amidst the counterpane, obviously — he’s rather dishy if you like that type — but rather what he’s advertising. It’s a reworking of Don Giovanni called (La Cieca only wishes she were making this up) “The Gay Don,” to be previewed on July 4 at the London Pride festival in Trafalgar Square.
If MusicOMH can be trusted, the gaydaptation is “set in a 1980s club and with most of the Don’s conquests as men rather than women.”
…Zerlina becomes Zac a young James Dean type, Masetto becomes Marina the vampish fiancée of Zac who gets stood up, Don Ottavio is Olga the beautiful and imposing Russian immigrant who is besotted with Alan ( Donna Anna)…
Oh, you can write the rest for yourselves. La Cieca is going to sign off now as she imagines with a shudder the staging of “Là ci darem la mano.”
Me too -Ed. It even seems the wrong tone and hairiness to me. There’s at least one extra member in those sheets.
Sanford: I think you’re right. I got my right and left mixed up (clearly the photo has caused me to lose my bearings).
Suggests to me two males just coming out of
the sixty-nine position, possibly to rest before
joining the rest of the cast for Swan Lake?
You can just never tell about these Brit boys.
Don’t forget Archie Bunker’s immortal line:
‘England ain’t a kingdom, it’s a fagdom!’
These comments are not meant in any way
to be disapproving, I hasten to add. I am
still a bit rattled by the news of Sarah Palin.
She just might be a wonderful replacement
for Margaret Juntwait. Especially when it comes
to Russian opera.