Just found out about this show! Carolee is truly a fabulous and underrated actress and singer. I've recently became a fan of hers this year and she NEVER fails to impress. She sings her FACE OFF in this song
@@ronaldmoskovitz6630 Absolutely. I'm not someone who typically has a definite favourite casting in any production-- but Douglas IS Percival. Untouchable.
When I look at you, what I always see Is the face of someone else who once belonged to me Still I can hear him laugh And even though that melody plays on, he's gone When I look at you, he is standing there I can almost breathe him in like summer in the air Why do you smile his smile? That heaven I'd forgotten eases through, in you If you could look at me once more With all the love you felt before If you and I could disappear into the past And find that love we knew I'd never take my eyes away from you When I look at you, he is touching me I would reach for him, but who can hold a memory? And love isn't everything That moonlight on the bed will melt away, someday Oh, you were once that someone Who I followed like a star Then suddenly you changed, And now I don't know who you are Or could it be that I never really knew you from the start? Did I create a dream? Was he a fantasy? Even a memory is paradise for all the fools like me Now, remembering is all that I can do Because I miss him so, when I look at you
i saw the original version on the same day I saw the original production of Ragtime. I saw Ragtime at the matinee and then this show...needless to say I was still shook after seeing Ragtime so nothing could compare after that lol.
You and me both. Hahaha. I was sort of disappointed when I searched it on YT when I saw her clip singing this song. Linda Eder's version was awesome definitely but when I heard this one it was like an immediate click; "This! This is how she sang this song!"
Marguerite is married to Sir Percy, one of the wealthiest men in England but whose considered an eccentric, dimwitted fool. While living together happily suddenly she gets news that her brother has been arrested during the Terror of the French Revolution and this sets off a chain reaction of lies, betrayal, and tension for all involved. She is manipulated into providing intelligence to support the French agent Chauvelin, whom she had an romantic liaison with when storming the Bastille in her earlier days of being an actress before her marriage. He has come from Paris to England to hunt for the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel (spoiler: it is Percy in disguise) who is saving French aristocrats from being executed. Marguerite is torn between doing everything she can to save her brother, remain loyal to her husband, and not reveal her past but Chauvelin blackmails her with the threat to reveal their former relationship and she is afraid of her husband finding out and leaving her - a significant concern and social and moral dilemma especially in the 18th century particularly for an unmarried woman to have relations out of wedlock and also presumed adultery with how the misunderstandings and interactions of the play progresses even though that's not the case. Personally, I find Chauvelin in the musical intriguing (and I truly wish this dynamic was present in the book, what a missed opportunity and higher emotional circumstances!) because it appears he genuinely has some remnants of affection for Marguerite, a lost dream of their shared love, and is torn himself with what he's forcing her to do in his hunt for the Pimpernel but Chauvelin will do whatever he can to survive the Terror himself. Here Marguerite is watching her husband getting his portrait painted and she is noticing how he is pulling away, being cold, and distant, seemingly uncaring and as though he no longer loves or even cares for her - causing her to doubt herself, who he is, and if their marriage and love was even real to begin with. I have not had the pleasure of seeing the full musical myself unfortunately so I am unsure precisely which part of the play this scene is in but I believe its after Percy realizes his wife is not being loyal/hiding things from him, implying he believes she's having an affair with Chauvelin, her former love. Percy will show himself to ultimately be the most elusive and witty yet altogether its a game of shadows and misunderstanding that culminates in who can trust who to not betray them. I hope the full broadway musical can be released on film one day, ideally at this rate like how Les Mis or The Phantom has been treated - I'll keep that hope alive!
