As a big fan of Emily Dickinson, I couldn’t help but be tickled by this sketch on Prairie Home Companion, which gives us Broadway’s answer to Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet:…
(Are you ready for this?)
“Because I could not stop for death” the MUSICAL.
GK: As I recall, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” is a poem. A short poem.
NM: Yeah but they fleshed it out and made it into a musical. Four acts and an intermission and there’s going to be a huge field of grain plus a carriage pulled by horses-and she has a big romance with Henry David Thoreau, whoever he is, and there’s a big opening number…
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May 12, 2008 at 3:05 am
I Love both Dickenson and Keillor — being orginally from the frozne tunder of MN. As far as a musical – on Prairie Home – I think you have a keeper. I think Emily would probably get a laugh out of it also—-
keep on writing —— bkmackenzie
May 12, 2008 at 3:13 am
I also love both Dickenson and Kiellor, being originally from the frozen tundra of MN. As far as a musical — for Praire Home – I think you have a keeper.
“I could not stop for death, I was frozen to a tree, there the Mississippi flowed, it would not stop for me— so death did.”
Keep on writing —- bkmackenzie