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Southern California has this glamorous... yet entirely false reputation as having such an abundance of....resources, that you can get round the clock service from fiercely competitive vendors.
I was laughing about this, when "Who Will Buy?' from Oliver! started playing in the windmills of my mind. It's my least favorite of movie musicals I might add.
Granted, ‘who will buy this wonderful feeling and put it in a box for me?' is a request anyone would love actualized, but lyrics such as ‘I'm so high I swear I could fly' ? hmm.
Southern California has this glamorous... yet entirely false reputation as having such an abundance of....resources, that you can get round the clock service from fiercely competitive vendors.
I was laughing about this, when "Who Will Buy?' from Oliver! started playing in the windmills of my mind. It's my least favorite of movie musicals I might add.
Granted, ‘who will buy this wonderful feeling and put it in a box for me?' is a request anyone would love actualized, but lyrics such as ‘I'm so high I swear I could fly' ? hmm.
I don't think roses,
strawberries. milk or...knives ,as the spoken background would suggest, bone us up quite so fast as other chemically created options do
This musical seems ripe for an adaptation into the party world. A modernization...a bit of re-writing and uh...tweaking of the story. And not unprecedented. Rent was a Broadway hit and is descended from opera's La Bohemė, written in the 1800's.
This musical seems ripe for an adaptation into the party world. A modernization...a bit of re-writing and uh...tweaking of the story. And not unprecedented. Rent was a Broadway hit and is descended from opera's La Bohemė, written in the 1800's.
SO--Move the setting from dusty Victorian London to dazzling Los Angeles. Refresh character names and welcome The Artful Slammer,
Fag-in of course, and Nancy Boy...btw whatever happened to lovely songstress Shani Wallis?
I dare you to watch the You Tube clip when you find yourself 'flying 'and not scream for mercy. (this is the ENTIRE 9:14 song...) You have been warned.
Oliver! went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1968. They truly don't make 'em like this anymore.
https://youtu.be/WhyqQL7Hglg?si=uzlPQg5hqm0PsVHv
I dare you to watch the You Tube clip when you find yourself 'flying 'and not scream for mercy. (this is the ENTIRE 9:14 song...) You have been warned.
Oliver! went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1968. They truly don't make 'em like this anymore.
https://youtu.be/WhyqQL7Hglg?si=uzlPQg5hqm0PsVHv
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