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Published: 2008-01-06 02:46:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 156; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 0
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Fan art for Gilbert and Sullivan's "Yeomen of the Guard."I love, love, love this part of the Act I finale. Pheobe = my favorite Victorian Elizabethan nymphomaniac.
Again, I've never seen it live. The stage directions say "enter pheobe - she rushes to fairfax;" I have pretty much always interpreted this in my twisted mind as something like the following:
Pheobe: *glomp*
Fairfax: wtf?
(hahaha...okay, here's the actual recitative from the opera)
Pheobe: Leonard!
Fairfax: (puzzled) I beg your pardon?
Pheobe: Don't you know me? I'm little Pheobe!
Fairfax: (still puzzled) Pheobe? Is this Pheobe? What! little Pheobe? (aside) Who the deuce may SHE be?
...And if you still don't know what I'm talking about, it's an awfully long story and you should the opera up on Wikipedia. It's well worth the read.
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LOVE Fairfax's expression! "Aah! Strange girl hugging me!" I always pictured it just like this. Pheobe's hair is done beautifully, it really captures the movement. You know she hand flung herself into his arms.
That really was such a fun scene! Fairfax's confusion was so funny. He is such an amusing character. I always liked the bit about if he can't have life at least he has the next best thing (which is death). Although he really was a jerk.
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oh no! man in tights and poofy garments! hehehe i love his expression.
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He's a tower warder from the Elizabethan ages...poor guy has to have nasty poofy clothes...
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XD hehehe i hate the outfits guys wore in the 1600's... so ridiculous.
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I knowww...girls too, with those ruffled collars, pinched waists and farthingales...*shudders* lol
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oh yeah. but at least the women could have some good styles... in the less fancy stuff.
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