War of the Words….

JoeyGirl and I are fighting it out. It’s a battle of word-craft. I took her challenge and wrote about Igor Stravinsky. Now, she took my challenge and wrote about Pope Benedict XVI and John Paul II. And I’ll have to step up my game… it’s hard to compete with Pope George Ringo.

Here is my challenge:

“Jenny, your challenge is to write a blog proposing a musical production of “Hitchhiker’s Guide,” using sets in the style of Gustav Klimt and music in the style of Duke Ellington (although if you really, really, really would rather avoid Klimt and Ellington, I’ll understand). I fully expect several examples of song titles, with summaries of who would sing them!”

Well, Joey-Girl, I believe that this musical has already been done. It’s called Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

I’m tempted to end with this little parry, but I suppose I should lunge. It really is scary to think of Donny Osmond as any character in Hitchhiker’s. Well, maybe he could play Arthur Dent. I love the idea of highly evolved mice singing in the tone of Cinderella as they are about to harvest Donny Osmond’s brain. That’s just about as relaxing as sending a cabbage through a lawnmower. Or perhaps, the music begins with the mice singing their backstory, but as their saws start Duke Ellington’s version of Caravan begins to play in the background. It could work. Then there could be a whole chase scene… like Tom and Jerry…but the mice chase Donny Osmond around.

“It just aint mean a thing if it aint got that swing…do whop do whop do whop do whop do….”

Zaphod Beeblebrox… he wore an outfit inspired by Klimt in the books anyway, didn’t he? That’s how I imagined it.

Marvin… he gets his own ballade. It’s just right.
Trillian… It’s not Ellington, but I want her to sing, “He’s so vain.”
Vogons… They need to do a nice soft shoe number. “Gloom, Despair, and Agony on you.”

That’s all I got. I still have to write a paper tonight. Let me think of a challenge. It has to be good.

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JoeyGirl Says:
February 29th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Masterful, dearest. Masterful.