Andrew: I lost my temper, sorry, it's so hot in here.
Kitty: You need an elephant to help you install the 'A/C';) Cat on the hot tin truth.
Andrew: [his look!] Just what I need in my life, an elephant in the room.
Kitty: He/she could stay outside and make a trunk call;}
Andrew: You're supposed to be the 'cool cat' with all that fur!
Kitty: Weirdo cat, always something else when I'm supposed to be something.
Andrew: Rather you were weird than 'normal'.
Kitty: Really? [her eyes- 'do you mean that?']
Andrew: [longish pause] Really. [longer pause] What if I wrote you a cat on a broomstick song?
Kitty: I'm sure Mr.Schwartz wouldn't ignore Kitty?!
Andrew: Well, it ain't so much a question of ignoring you. Great songs get cut from out-of-town Broadway try-outs all the time. They almost cut Somewhere Over the Rainbow from the movie!
Kitty: [horrified eyes: 'not possible!']
Andrew: If you get the 'movie song' then, it's yours. If not, and I'm no Stephen Schwartz, but you could use mine in your act and say, 'hereby hangs a tail' and sing it in honor of the Cat Protection League and meow 'screw those witches'!
Kitty: [she breaks into La Marseillaise] Aux armes…!
Andrew: [LOL, long pause] I just thought of another song for you ma chat, now THIS would be really funny with Alec Baldwin. Not so much a make-over as a make-outahere.
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Kitty blindfolds Andrew [tugging his face mask over his eyes] leading him to the keyboard to sing him a birthday present:
The Royal Ballet/The Royal Opera House collaborated with indy company Zoo Nation to present The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. It's just about to finish it's streaming so well-worth catching it if you can. Wish the 'Royal' tentacles stretched so far when I was working there!:) This production is hip hop meets reggae meets everyone and was staged in The Roundhouse, London (sort of round Pioneer Works, Brooklyn) that stood derelict for decades being a performing venue in the '60's/'70s, The Doors played there in 1968.
"A bit of madness is key
To give us new colors to see
Who knows where it will lead us?
And that's why they need us"
While on the subject of thinking outside the box, Singer Annie Ross died a few weeks ago- a name not really known outside cabaret/jazz circles. She wrote a song that totally influenced my late teenage years (we are talkin' dinosaur to Spotify!) The moral of that story: just keep on doin' what you believe in and do it as defiantly as you can. Someone will notice you! It ain't no crime to do a Love Boat, but don't give up your night job as a mistress of tales and truth.
Check the date on Twisted, 1960 (written in 1952- hello Mad Men!)! We've come such a long way haven't we………;(
Maybe we should move on to another post. Yet isn't it yet another dimension?
