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Post by WireHangers on Feb 12, 2023 22:31:43 GMT
Trying to get suggestions for a replacement for Fester’s line in One Normal Night, the original line is “are you folks right for the mezzanine?” or the alternate is “was rehab right for Charlie Sheen?”
So far all I have “is Camilla right to be Queen?”
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
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Post by mkb on Feb 13, 2023 11:01:56 GMT
It would help to have the full lyrics for context.
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Post by mkb on Feb 13, 2023 11:12:13 GMT
Andrew Lippa's lyrics according to Google are:
Wednesday:
They're normal people.
Not like you,
Not like me,
Please can't we be an average family?
One normal night,
That's all I want,
That's all I need from you.
One normal house,
Without a mouse
To feed a plant or two!
You must admit we're not what people call "laid back".
So can't we muse a bit, and lose the basic black?
Whoa, one normal night,
With normal people on their way!
Just one normal night...
(Spoken):
Whaddaya say?
Morticia:
One normal night?
Wednesday:
To be polite,
To do the least you can.
Gomez (Spoken):
One normal eve?
Wednesday:
Can you achieve
A kind of common man?
You have to swear to me,
Yes, promise to the core.
It's almost six o'clock,
They're almost at the door!
On all the Addams ancestors
Who've ever walked aright,
One normal night!
Ancestors:
Doo doo doo doo (x3)
Doo doo
Lucas (Spoken):
Wait! This is the place where I first saw her! Wednesday, with a crossbow. And she looked like Diana The Huntress!
Mal (Spoken):
Who?
Alice (Spoken):
He's just expressing himself, dear. "Expressing is the poet's art. Just simply say what's in your heart."
Mal (Spoken):
Lucas, your mother's rhyming again. I say we take a rain check and go back to the hotel.
Lucas (Spoken):
No!
(Sung)
One normal night.
No, not one poem,
Not one inspiring word.
One normal scene,
Complete routine.
Tonight can't be absurd!
Please don't embarrass me,
(Spoken)
Or be completely rude.
(Sung)
Don't make a fuss about the house,
About the food!
Whoa, one normal night.
I know it's big, but can't you see?
This one normal night is for me!
Fester (Spoken):
He seems like a nice young man!
Ancestors (Spoken):
They're not right for each other/He's from Ohio/It'll never work
Fester (Spoken):
Not right for eachother?! What do you mean, "They're not right for each other?"
(Sung)
Was Napoleon right for Josephine?
Was nausea right for Dramamine?
Were the 80's right for the drum machine
Who's to say?
Who's to say?
Was ballet right for Balanchine?
Was Polio right for the Salk vaccine?
Were you folks right for the mezzanine?
Who's to say?
(Sung)
One normal night is a perilous trick.
Normal is hard to attain.
Children are crazy, and parents are quick,
Passions are hard to explain.
But this is their moment, and this is your chance,
So if you don't want to remain,
Start singing of love!
Ancestors:
What?
Fester:
Love!
Ancestors:
No!
Fester:
Love!
Ancestors:
Why?
Fester:
Love!
Ancestors:
Ugh!
Fester:
Only affairs of the heart.
(Spoken)
Your turn!
Ancestors:
Bringing them love!
Fester:
Yes!
Ancestors:
Love!
Fester:
Yes!
Ancestors:
Love!
Fester:
Right!
Ancestors:
Love!
Fester:
Good!
Fester:
Love lets your spirits depart,
So let the normalcy start!
Fester/Ancestors:
Protect and rally round,
Let's aid them and abet
One normal night is what they'll...
Fester:
Get!
Addams Family/Ancestors:
One normal night,
One normal night,
One normal night,
Wednesday wants:
One normal night,
One normal night,
One normal night,
Give her just:
One normal night,
One normal night,
One normal night,
Wednesday wants:
Gomez/Morticia/Ancestors:
One
Fester/Ancestors:
One
Grandma/Pugsley/Ancestors:
One
Wednesday/Ancestors:
One
Addams Family/Ancestors:
One normal night.
We'll comprehend.
we'll tend her every need!
Wednesday:
All I want,
All I ask.
You'll tend my every need!
Beinekes:
When we arrive,
We'll come alive,
To make this night succeed!
Lucas:
Just be respectable,
Don't make an odd remark.
Mal/Alice:
Okay, okay.
Wednesday:
Keep undectable, our passion for the dark.
Addams Family/Ancestors:
Just as you say.
Wednesday/Lucas:
And then it's paradise,
Right here in Central Park!
All:
In one normal,
Informal,
One normal...
Doorbell:
[Foghorn]
All:
Night!
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Post by mkb on Feb 13, 2023 11:59:05 GMT
It's a difficult one. There are several hundred words ending with an "een" sound, but trying to find something relevant is hard. Certainly nothing that comes close to the mezzanine joke at the audience's expense.
The best I could think up:
Were the Vardys right for Wayne and Coleen?
Is eggplant right as aubergine?
Were pronouns right for the inbetween?
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Post by anthony40 on Feb 13, 2023 12:09:38 GMT
I have seen a touring production of The Addams Family so know how and where it sits in the show.
What about : "Are they (as in Lucas's parents) ready to scream?"
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Post by adrianics on Feb 13, 2023 12:10:02 GMT
When I played Fester back in 2019, we did "was Brexit right for Halloween", which got a great response at the time but might be a little obscure now! I concur with mkb's vardy/colleen suggestion  |
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Post by WireHangers on Feb 13, 2023 18:44:26 GMT
Some great ideas! The Vardy/Rooney one is brilliant.
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Post by fiyerorocher on Feb 13, 2023 19:17:44 GMT
Didn't the UK tour rewrite the whole part, since we don't use the word mezzanine in most theatres here? I remember 'were you folks right for the cheapest seats?' but don't recall everything they were rhyming it with
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