The road to Manderley
From time to time the younger queens ask La Cieca, “Why does all the camp date back decades? Did something happen to camp? Why is there no new camp? Where should we look to find our own 21st century camp?
Now La Cieca has an answer for you young queens. Look no further! Camp, with a capital C, is coming to a Broadway theater near you—soon! Or, uh, anyway—eventually!
And—oh, wait for it—the reprise bringing down the first act curtain!
Camp? Want Camp? Evelyn Lear and Patrice Munsel knew camp:
The lost complete version:
Please bring back JUNO and Reuben Ruben before Rebecca.
Lovers, ya know
Forget this Webberish -like Rebecca,notice the Mrs Danvers’ character, needs a few singing lessons. The voice changing coloe at every term and badly supported. Remember you are getting to be inflicted with a second camp ‘blast fart’ from A. L Webber soon when he once again ‘opens his English lunch’. – Phantom 2.
If you want something satisfying, all out, high flying notes and full blown operatic : try Blitzstein’s Regina, based on Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes.
Thank you, Harry and QPF, for bringing up two works I very much treasure — JUNO and REGINA. I wore out my copy of JUNO like JJ wore out his LNM. “We’re alive” is for me an anthem (likeMehitabel’s “Toujors gai,” and I’m quite aware of the commonality. Passages from REGINA stick in my mind like almost nothing else from that period. Every time someone mounts it — I’ve heard the Chicago and the Vancouver — I keep hoping that maybe this time it’ll be lifted into prominence. Not so far.
Now for a revival of THE GRASS HARP or 70 GIRLS 70 (with Rosie the elephant back in.)
‘coloe’ should have read ‘color’. Sorry.
Well, FZ’s agent has been telling everyone that it is coming to bway this season, (its gonna steal the tony’s away from spider-man folks…) and he is getting a group of london impresario’s together to make it happen for the spring…
FZ also set her agent up on a date with Renee… that didn’t work out…
The action will be relocated to Egypt, with Mansoura taking over from Manderley. A job lot of hardly used pyramids will make up the background, and Mrs Danvers will be a Sphinx-like figure. The unnamed heroine will be called Aida, and Maxim DeWinter will become Max DeSummer. To avoid offending some sensibilities Rebecca will be called Ribqa.
Book now.
Okay – wrong FZ…
Although . . . I like it.
One problem: anybody got any ideas how you burn down a pyramid?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_%28musical%29
The Viennese version was directed by our old pal Francesca Zambello. And according to Wikipedia, it is headed to Broadway.
It looks just as bad as can be imagined.
its worse actually… its the type of production you recommend to the terminally ill, since time seems to stop completely during the show…
Okay, spoiler alert question:
If it’s the Hitchcock version, do we assume that means in this musical debacle we will also be told that dear Max “didn’t mean” to kill Rebecca? So much more operatic if they hew to the novel and let him actually be the worm that turns.
Apart from the composer’s intentions and the author’s intentions we should in fairness also have the killer’s intentions.
I can see why a stage version would follow the screenplay closely because the Sherwood et al version is a very masterful condensation of what is after all rather tricky material (the girl as unreliable narrator in particular). The killing or accidental death of Rebecca is a MacGuffin more than anything else; the real point of course is the revelation that Max didn’t love Rebecca and that his odd behavior was not driven (as the girl assumed) by his torch for the late wife.