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!

The internets are failing me. I guess I'll have to go see Iron & Wine by myself tomorrow. I'll just find a seat and have a laid-back concert experience. I'm still kind of broken from being in the pit, so it's probably for the best.

Five concerts in seven days: kind of tiring, yo.

I'd happily take you up on the offer but for the pesky geography thing. I just don't think I could make it there in time.

Five concerts in a week is a LOT, but sounds like a great way to OD on music.

Man, I love Iron&Wine. He's coming to play Manchester in a couple weeks to a sold out show. So, so amazing live.

Sia is the one vocalist Zero 7 has hung on to through all three of their albums, and she has three solo records--the most recent being the one tommyrot mentioned above. I prefer the work she's done with Zero 7, particularly on "When It Falls, " a cd I have listened to so much I have actually worn down the disc.

I really like The Sounds, a lot, but I really really really love Maja Ivarsson.

I think I can only take so much of her. She doesn't have the widest range, and her voice can be a little grating sometimes, when it's more like yelling than singing.

But it's cool to find other people who even know the Sounds! A friend of mine introduced me to them years ago, and they've come up on my Pandora without my help, but I haven't really heard anyone else ever talk about them.

I think I met someone on the way to the airport once. That was it.

Man, I love Iron&Wine. He's coming to play Manchester in a couple weeks to a sold out show. So, so amazing live.

He said in interviews that The Shepard's Dog was inspired by Swordfishtrombones.

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