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I started life as an orphan, a child of the streets
Every one we capture says he's an orphan. The last three ships we took proved to be manned entirely by orphans, and so we had to let them go. One would think that Great Britain's mercantile navy was recruited solely from her orphan asylums - which we know is not the case.
-Frederic, The Pirates of Penzance
But what if it were the case? I like to imagine the Pirates of Penzance capturing the HMS Pinafore, only to find that it is crewed by orphans from the workhouse in Oliver!, all barely able to dance a proper hornpipe because they're suffering from the terrible nutritional deficiencies of a gruel-fed childhood mixed with scurvy. Or possibly the spunky little orphan girls from Annie.
Why yes, I have a very overactive imagination. Why do you ask?
srah - Wednesday, 7 November 2007 - 7:15 PM
Tags: annie, gilbert and sullivan, hms pinafore, imagination, musicals, nablopomo, nablopomo 2007, oliver, the pirates of penzance
Comments (7)
T-bone - November 7, 2007 - 9:26 PM - ℓ
me too!! that show was awesome. And by awesome, I mean totally lame. but still kind of awesome.
Little Shop of Horrors.
Seymour is the bomb.