Kismet

[ceebeegee]

Someone on "All That Chat" is saying Encores! may be doing Kismet this year. *Drool*...LOVE that show. One of my all-time favorite scores. When I did Me and My Girl, Amy Brackman and I used to sing "Rahadlakum" together all the time. "Let's discuss the nature of virtue...Virtue is its own reward....On days when my lord groweth restless/And bored with his sword and his gloom...'Tis sweet with the meat of the leechee nut/Combined with a kumquat and riiiind/The kind of confection to drive a man out of his Mesopotamian miiiiiind!"

I would LOVE to play Lalume, Wife of Wives. Marsinah has some great songs, but Lalume is much sexier.

Such wonderful poetry in that score. Sure, the music is great--you can't go wrong with Borodin. But the lyrics are incredible--"Strange spice from the South/honey through the comb, sifting/Imagine these on one eager mouth/And this is my beloved..."

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[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

I think I was Lady Battersby too--my character's first name was also Clara, I remember, and my husband's name was Frederick. Our Jacqui was pretty good so I was just aiming for understudy but I was very young-looking then, very small and thin, and much too girlish for Jacqui's boobalicious costumes. It's too bad, it would've been a fun role (I wasn't really interested in Sally, and not a good enough tapper at any rate). The show itself kind of bores me, but I had a great time with the cast of that show. Susan and I did it together (and she choreographed), and I think my friend Ryan swung for it.