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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
- There are a total of 80 general entries. We are selecting 30 for display.
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Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
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it's a boy. From 'It's a boy'.
good year. From 'Twenty-one'.
vibration land. From 'Amazing Journey'.
'Captain Walker, after much consideration, on the grounds of justifiable homicide, this court finds you __________'? | 'The Who's Tommy'
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not guilty. From the courtroom scene.
'Do you think it's alright, to leave the boy with ___________'? (Song: 'Do You Think It's Alright II') | 'The Who's Tommy'
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Uncle Ernie. Tommy is left with his Uncle Ernie and gets molested.
'How would you feel if I turned on the bath? Ducked your head under and started to _____'? | 'The Who's Tommy'
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laugh. From 'Cousin Kevin'.
never fear. From 'Eyesight to the Blind'.
What is the name of the gypsy woman who claims she will 'tear his soul apart'? | 'The Who's Tommy'
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Acid Queen. Tommy gets whisked away before she can do anything to him though.
silver ball. From 'Pinball Wizard', the most well-known song from the show.
heat. From 'Go To The Mirror'.
'This can't continue, it makes no sense. We're getting nowhere, I've lost all my __________'? | 'The Who's Tommy'
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confidence. From 'I Believe My Own Eyes'.
smash the mirror. From 'Smash the Mirror'.
'Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The pinball wizard in a ____________'? | 'The Who's Tommy'
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miracle cure. Hooray, Tommy is cured!
birds. From the song "Louder Than Words." Johnny, Susan, and Mike sing this line. This song is the finale.
Hair. Galt MacDermot, along with Gerome Ragni and James Rado, created the smash-hit hippie show "Hair". Interesting side note: my aunt's middle school health teacher was Gerome Ragni's brother. Cool.
Milan. One of the title's Two Gentlemen, Valentine sets off for Milan to seek his fame and fortune, and he is followed by his best friend Proteus, and Proteus is followed by his lover Julia (and in the musical, Julia's maid Lucetta as well).
She gets pregnant.. In the song "Two Gentlemen of Verona", which Julia sings with Lucetta and the female chorus, the ladies bewail their fate: they cannot travel to Milan to tell Proteus the news of Julia's pregnancy, because they, not being men, cannot travel alone.
Julia's. In the musical, the idea comes from the smart-mouthed maid, Lucetta, but Shakespeare's play give Julia the credit.
Crab. Poor Launce! He has a whole monologue bemoaning the fact that his entire family wept to see him travel to Milan with Proteus, but the dog never even shed a tear.
Raul Julia. Yep! Long before he was Gomez Addams, Raul Julia played the equally suave (and surprisingly well-sung) lover/traitor Proteus in "Two Gents" who wrote "one thousand love letters" and who sings some of the wittiest songs in the show.
Hispanic. Near the end of the musical, Julia bursts into her native tonuge--in song, no less!
The Duke. Yes, even the comic servant Launce gets hooked up with a milkmaid. Happily, Proteus returns to Julia and Valentine marries Silvia. In addition, in the musical, Thurio and Lucetta end up together!
The musical is one that does not take itself seriously. In fact, the last song mentions hysteria, penis envy, and other "issues". What does "Love" eventually "do" to the characters? | Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Musical
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Love drives them sane. During the final song in the show, the cast, with tongue in cheek, sing that "Love has driven me sane"...funny.
"Two Gents" not a terribly popular piece, which is surprising since it won a Tony for Best Musical! If you like the musical quality of "Hair" and the band The Fifth Dimension...it's sort of like that. Definitely worth a listen!
Kate McGowan. Interestingly enough, Kate McGowan proposes to Jim instead of the other way around, but the audience never finds out whether or not they actually marry.
Thomas Andrews. Andrews sings "In Every Age", a song about how Titanic was truly a "floating city".
sewing girl. We find this out in "Lady's Maid", where the third class sings about their hopes and dreams for America.
Edgar and Alice. By the end of the play, both Charles and Caroline and Kate and Jim are engaged to be married. Madame Aubert is Benjamin Guggenheim's mistress.
Alice Beane. Alice does, however, meake a big effort to "rub elbows" with the first class passengers. She sneaks to their deck, and dances with them ("I Have Danced").
Lookout. Harold Bride is the radioman, Frederick Barrett is a stoker, and Henry Etches is the chief steward.
Three. The song consists of Thomas Andrews, J. Bruce Ismay, and Captain E. J. Smith. When the ship is on her way down, these three argue over who fault the whole incident was.
Barrett. During the song "Staircase", we see Kate McGowan, Kate Mullins, and Kate Murphey trapped below deck with Jim Farrell. Barrett finds them and helps them up to the deck by way of the radio room.
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