Meanwhile, at the SF Opera House...

[jon_chaisson]

[SCENE: joncwriter and emmalyon are up in the balcony, listening to the opening overture to Rossini's The Barber of Seville...]

JONC: [Squirms in seat] Must...not...give...in....

JONC'S MIND: Ooooh, wait'll I get that waaabbit/Whaaat would you want with a wabbit? / Can't you see that I'm much sweeter / I'm your little señoriter / You are my type of guy / Let me straighten your tie / and I shall dance for you....

JONC: [Punching self in head] Damn it, stop it! Now!

JONC'S MIND: [Determined] How do?/Welcome to my shop/Let me cut your mop/Let me shave your crop/Daintily, daintily... Hey, you!/Don't look so perplexed/Why must you be vexed?/Can't you see you're next?/Yes, you're next, you're so next!

JONC: [Now trying not to imitate various physical movements of the cartoon] [Turns to Emm] Sorry....doing my best...

EMMA: [Patting Jonc on the knee] That's quite all right...

[Overture Ends]

JONC'S MIND: ehhh, NNNEXT!

JONC: [Twitching] Not funny!!

[END SCENE]

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For the record, yes, I quite enjoyed this opera! Very silly...not as nutty as the version of The Marriage of Figaro that we saw a few months previous, but nonetheless, it was great. I have to give them kudos for doing one hell of a job with the set. It's not often one gets to see a revolving set moving as much as this one did...

More later...too tired to write more!! :p

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ETA: This has to be the first time I've seen an opera, on stage or otherwise, that features the lead character riding a Vespa onstage.

Yes, a Vespa. As in a motorbike. Complete with one of those leather strapped helmet doowackies. Oh, and his long coat some how made me think of him as one of the newer Doctor Whos. Not sure why...

Comments

[chaoticmoth.livejournal.com]

lol, I am lucky I don't have it as memorized as you do, but I would probably still be flashing back to Bugs. :)

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

What was funny was that I also thought of this Tex Avery cartoon that uses it as well...



(btw--check out what has to be one of the most brilliant visual jokes in cartoon history...it's about 3:30 in)

[chaoticmoth.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I don't know the exact reference for the cowboy outfit. Now the "hair" on the film is definitely a great joke. :)

[anais-ninja.livejournal.com]

Wagner cannot be heard in my house for similar reason. Kill the wabbit, speaw and magic helmet, &c. My father exercises considerably less restraint than you.

[emmalyon.livejournal.com]

When I took conducting in college, we watched all of the operatic/classical music related Looney Tunes cartoons in class as a special treat after midterms.
Of course, being serious music students, we owned them all on video. :-)

[dasmarzipan.livejournal.com]

You sure you don't want to be an animation writer????