More Bart-y Goodness
The coincidences keep on coming: In the last week, I've published a post on Roger Bart, and a post on Lionel Bart.
Bart, Bart...and now I've been reminded of another famous musical theater Bart: Bart Simpson, that is...
There is an episode in Season 4 of The Simpsons called A Streetcar Named Marge wherein they are doing a musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire, called Oh Streetcar!
In the episode they do a big "musical theater" finish as they shout "Streetcar". That has now become the cliche expression I use whenever somebody insists on a traditional big finish. It's also funny because in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, for many years, they used A Streetcar Named Desire as a songwriting exercise.
I think I'm outta Barts for now...I'll leave with a big finish and the some lyrics from the show Oh Streetcar! (also BTW, a take-off on Oh! Calcutta!)
Long before the Superdome
Where the Saints of football play...
Lived a city that the damned call home
Hear their hellish rondelet...New Orleans!
Home of pirates, drunks and whores
New Orleans!
Tacky overpriced souvenir storesIf you want to go to hell, you should take a trip
To the Sodom and Gomorrah of the Mississip'New Orleans!
Stinking, Rotten, vomiting, vile
New Orleans
Putrid, brackish, maggotty, foulNew Orleans!
Crummy, lousy, rancid, and rank
New Orleans!
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