moon_custafer: neon cat mask (Default)
...but some people over here might find this relevant to their interests.

I decided a while back that in the unlikely event I ever get access to time travel, I will only use it for frivolous purposes. Specifically, for seeing long-ago theatrical performances that I only know from descriptions because they weren’t filmed or recorded. Even by those standards, Sitting Pretty is a show that fell into a black hole, so I will just have to listen to this recording of a remount in the early 1990s and try to imagine what it would have been like to see and hear this song performed by Dwight Frye (!) and Frank McIntyre.

https://youtu.be/EXKkLElsCWse

Date: 2018-04-25 02:58 pm (UTC)From: [personal profile] sovay
sovay: (Morell: quizzical)
he was sufficiently well-known as a dramatic character actor that the reviews he got were all along the lines of “wow, he can do musical comedy too? Cool!”

I just want to be able to hear him sing!

(Honestly, I kind of assume Dwight Frye could do anything, but most of it wasn't on film. Like seeing Elisha Cook Jr. in his cute fresh-faced dork phase.)

None were, and I have to assume that “When Vienna and I Were Young” is not a song that exists in our waking world.

. . . It may not be, but it chimes really closely with something I have heard, which I will try to remember well enough to run down for you.
Edited Date: 2018-04-25 02:59 pm (UTC)

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