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holmes_minorExcuse me? Excuse me, everyone! I think that was the bell for the end of the interval, so if you all could start making your way back to your seats… No, Mrs. Small-Hobbit, I really don’t think there’s time for another glass of champagne. If you could make your way back to our box with us, dear! (Can you prop her up a little, Mrs. P?)
Yes, Mrs. P., it was kind of Mr. Holmes to pay for a box at the opera for us all. Least he could do, to be fair, after that punch-up in my pantry with a miscreant. Three fruit pies and a whole leg of mutton! All ruined! And that chafing dish will never be the same again. Yes, yes, I know I should stop ruminating upon it. It’s only upsetting me. Off you go, Mrs. P.! Go and get Mrs. S-M sitting down.
What do you think of the production so far, La Poetisa? It’s quite a charming revival of Iolanthe, don’t you think? Mr. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan are so clever, aren’t they? Oh, you’re writing a critical essay about the libretto. I see… Er, could you try not to make Mr. Gilbert cry this time? I believe he and Doctor Watson have a nodding acquaintance and well—
Oh, this is our box, isn’t it? Let’s get ourselves settled and… Actually, could I have a quick word, Mrs. Frankles, before you sit down? It’s about the… um, “singing.” You really have to stop doing it.
No, you can’t join in even when it’s the chorus singing.
No, not even during the loud parts.
I said no, Mrs. Frankles. Please go and sit down.
And I’d better take my seat too… Oh, I’m really looking forward to the second half, Mrs. P.! One of my favourite songs is coming up in a little while:
Oh, foolish fay
Oh, has Mrs. Small-Hobbit decided to take a nap? I say… Mrs. P.? Are you responsible for the ink moustache on Mrs. S-M’s upper lip? Yes, it is most impressive and, yes, beautifully drawn. But that really wasn’t my point, dear.
You know, I don’t think any of you are taking this comic opera seriously enough.
Well, at least maybe after the performance we will all be inspired to produce our own poetry. I have also jotted down a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “The Sign of the Four”:
At the Lyceum Theatre the crowds were already thick at the side-entrances. In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and beshawled, bediamonded women.
And here is the list of poetry forms:
221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, barzelletta, beeswing, blackout poetry, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cherita, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, clogyrnach, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, débat, décima, descort, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, enuig, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, hay(na)ku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, nonsense verse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, puente, quatern, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rimas dissolutas, rime couée, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, tricube, trine, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle, xenolith
(Ah, the lights are being turned down and the curtain is going up. Here we go everyone!)
Yes, Mrs. P., it was kind of Mr. Holmes to pay for a box at the opera for us all. Least he could do, to be fair, after that punch-up in my pantry with a miscreant. Three fruit pies and a whole leg of mutton! All ruined! And that chafing dish will never be the same again. Yes, yes, I know I should stop ruminating upon it. It’s only upsetting me. Off you go, Mrs. P.! Go and get Mrs. S-M sitting down.
What do you think of the production so far, La Poetisa? It’s quite a charming revival of Iolanthe, don’t you think? Mr. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan are so clever, aren’t they? Oh, you’re writing a critical essay about the libretto. I see… Er, could you try not to make Mr. Gilbert cry this time? I believe he and Doctor Watson have a nodding acquaintance and well—
Oh, this is our box, isn’t it? Let’s get ourselves settled and… Actually, could I have a quick word, Mrs. Frankles, before you sit down? It’s about the… um, “singing.” You really have to stop doing it.
No, you can’t join in even when it’s the chorus singing.
No, not even during the loud parts.
I said no, Mrs. Frankles. Please go and sit down.
And I’d better take my seat too… Oh, I’m really looking forward to the second half, Mrs. P.! One of my favourite songs is coming up in a little while:
Oh, foolish fay
Oh, has Mrs. Small-Hobbit decided to take a nap? I say… Mrs. P.? Are you responsible for the ink moustache on Mrs. S-M’s upper lip? Yes, it is most impressive and, yes, beautifully drawn. But that really wasn’t my point, dear.
You know, I don’t think any of you are taking this comic opera seriously enough.
Well, at least maybe after the performance we will all be inspired to produce our own poetry. I have also jotted down a quotation from Dr. Watson’s work, “The Sign of the Four”:
At the Lyceum Theatre the crowds were already thick at the side-entrances. In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and beshawled, bediamonded women.
And here is the list of poetry forms:
221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, barzelletta, beeswing, blackout poetry, blitz poem, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cherita, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, clogyrnach, colour poems, compound word verse, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, débat, décima, descort, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, echo verse, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, enuig, epigram, epistle, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, florette, found poetry, free verse, ghazal, haiku, hay(na)ku, In Memoriam stanza, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, lies, limerick, line messaging, list poem, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, musette, nonsense verse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, puente, quatern, quintilla, renga, rhyming alliterisen, riddle, rimas dissolutas, rime couée, rispetto, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, shadorma, sonnet, stream of consciousness, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, tricube, trine, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle, xenolith
(Ah, the lights are being turned down and the curtain is going up. Here we go everyone!)
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Date: 2024-05-05 08:58 pm (UTC)In disguise as a man
In fact a very peer
Just because I can
With a fa-la-fa-la-la
I shall confuse the hero
And maybe the heroine too
Dressed now as a pierrot
With my faithful cockatoo
And a fa-la-fa-la-la
And at the end of the story
I'll bring the couples back together
Giving myself all the glory
As I wave my magic feather
With a fa-la-fa-la-la
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Date: 2024-06-25 06:32 am (UTC)Holmes: the Musical
Date: 2024-08-06 04:18 am (UTC)there’s talk about a bright new West End show
great hoofers and fine warblers, they’ve all got
but plot? it’s much forgot by the whole lot
why any of my chronicles could be
the stuff of operatic comedy
Consider that Bohemian affair,
the casting’s done, the lady lead’s right there
a king in a mask, a scandalous task,
a twist at the end, what more could one ask?
forsooth, the possibilities abound
the ‘Fire!’ alone would bring the house right down
Or what about that business with the hound?
a booming bittern chorus would astound
and moorland ponies dancing round a mire
what more could a vox populi desire?
the curse (and worse) will leave ‘em all agog:
the hero being upstaged by a dog!
But let’s forget the diva and the pup,
the theatre-going public knows what’s up
they want spectacle with all the trimmings
we’ll give ‘em chapter one, our beginnings
A Study in Red—first of many hits
(as long as we cut out the Utah bits)
To play a long-suffering landlady
a very fine soprano it should be;
for Watson, a tenor like no other;
a double bass for my portly brother;
but as for sleuth, the part is self-embossed:
stage shall reclaim the actor it once lost!
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Date: 2024-08-06 06:35 am (UTC)Re: Holmes: the Musical
Date: 2024-08-06 08:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-08-06 08:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-08-06 03:37 pm (UTC)Re: Holmes: the Musical
Date: 2024-08-06 08:35 pm (UTC)Re: Holmes: the Musical
Date: 2024-08-06 08:36 pm (UTC)Re: Holmes: the Musical
Date: 2024-08-06 09:46 pm (UTC)Some other favourites:
forsooth, the possibilities abound/ the ‘Fire!’ alone would bring the house right down
A Study in Red—first of many hits/ (as long as we cut out the Utah bits) (So true, Holmes, so true ^^)
but as for sleuth, the part is self-embossed:/ stage shall reclaim the actor it once lost! ^___^
Re: Holmes: the Musical
Date: 2024-08-06 10:33 pm (UTC)I like the line about Fire, too. And self-embossed!