Zoe ,'The Train Job'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Leading to someone's outraged "You can't cut to THE BLUES! The blues are TOO AWESOME!" (It was a VERY fangirl kind of work party.)
LOVE.
My "Bandom" station on Pandora has been throwing Boys Like Girls and Mon Frere at me a lot. BLG's pretty good, but I really like Mon Frere.
My "Bandom" station on Pandora has been throwing Boys Like Girls and Mon Frere at me a lot. BLG's pretty good, but I really like Mon Frere.
My regular station has a Boys Like Girls song, I think. Also, I have a Boys Like Girls cover of "Let Go."
[link] There you go!
Wow, there was some really great moments in that vid. I loved Dean whaling on the Impala as Bryar whales on the drums, the visual parallels between Dean and John, the demons pouring forth...
Good stuff.
Ok, you know how I just said that there was a Panic! inspired costume in the show I just did? Well they sing a panic song! and I just realized it. It is a drunken matchmaker singing about a wedding. I thought the song sounded familiar and I looked up the lyrics. Here is the youtube video-- I helped make the geranium dress which one can't see very well: [link]
All right, now I'm craving some context.
Um- it is really hard to explain, but the woman singing is a matchmaker who has been trying to matchmake for the girl in the pink dress. The girl in the pink dress is a spoiled young woman, whose parents are nouveau riche (think the entitled young people in college that we all talk about). The father ends up actually being manipulated into matching the daughter with his clerk, who has schemed to take over the business and bankrupt the father. The father ends up in prison for fraud and bankruptcy, which the clerk and daughter end up opening a Walmart type store.
Anyway, they sing that song just after the engagement has been announced.
Is it locally written, or is it a published play?
It is called A Family Affair, by Alexsandr Oestravky, who wrote it in 1849 in Russian. Clearly it has been somehow translated and modernized, which is what this theatre tends to do. I am not sure if the director translated and adapted himself (which we also tend to do, because with a play that old there are no royalties except to the translator). There is not a lot on google, as I looked for a summary before I typed one....
Ahhh, okay. An adaptation makes a lot of sense. Very cute!