The Bells Have Made Me Deaf

There was a review of “The Pirate Queen” in the New York Times. It wasn’t so good. The reviewer claims it was restless and loud. It was produced by the same couple who produced “Riverdance”, if that gives any indication. It will be competing with a revival of “Les Miserables”, which closed in 2003, two blocks away. Here’s a snippet of the review, since you would have to sign up to see the whole thing:

The plot, in addition to its swashbuckling picturesqueness, aims to deliver firm thumps to feminist and nationalist reflexes. Grace (Stephanie J. Block) is not only a young woman who proves she can take charge in a man’s world (rather like the feisty young heroines of animated Disney musicals of the last two decades). She also speaks up (or sings up) against the oppression of the Irish by the English, which occasions full-hearted, intricately harmonized, standard-issue anthems in the second act.

Against a backdrop of lush-colored skies that suggest a Wild West sequence from an MGM musical of the 1950s, Grace proves her mettle to her chieftain/sea captain father (Jeff McCarthy) by saving a ship in a thunderstorm and fighting off a hundred or so bloodthirsty Englishmen.

I don’t see what this has to do with either the Grand National or The National the band. Kindly explain the relevance if any.

music? Ireland? sea horses?

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/theater/reviews/06pira.html?ex=1333512000&en=c7e19b0d13f98401&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

You’re right. I’ll try to pay more attention, even if I see the words, “nothing to do with” ahead of me.

Well congratulations… you certainly got the ‘nothing to do with’ posting prize of the week!

This is excellent music.

Does it make you purr? do things to your fur?

I can’t speak for Mr. Boo, but you sound like someone who could make me do both.

you ARE speaking for Mr Boo… in case you hadn’t noticed.

Ooops–caught with my pants down

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