"Methinks I feel a poem coming on." Doug Sills is my hero. :0) Thank you so much for sharing this- such a great show, and such an awesome performance! I hope to see more videos! :0)
So I know I’m a little late to this video, but I just wanted to express how much I love this scene in particular. I just finished playing Sir Percy a few weeks ago, and let me tell you, there was no moment that was more entertaining than this little poem. This little quatrain was such a great little moment. And Douglas Sills does such a great job playing this fashionable top. I remember during rehearsals I would watch this video for inspiration. So I’d like to thank not only Douglas Sills for his performance, but also to the lovely human who posted this video. Thanks so much.
Lol! Douglas's face when he says, "The Pimpernel is me!" at 0:41, like he expects some big praise or something. Love this show so much! Sills is pure gold.
Hey, Interested in getting a copy of the full Pimpernel video, honestly if you know anywhere I could by a video recording of the Broadway show I'd be really grateful too, I'm bummed this isn't easier to find, it's one of my favorite shows! Cheers, Lu
Douglas Sills is the best!! I'd watch anything with him in it. You can tell how much fun he's having in this show, and I just can't help having so much fun watching it! I love it!! Is this whole show available? I really want to see the entire thing!
We seek him heEeEeEre, we seek him theeEeEeRe, Those Frenchies... seeeEeEekH him... everPHywherEeEe. Is he in heaven? or, is he in ... heEeEell ? That demmed ... elusive ... Pimperneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel!
My criticism is the costuming of the women. Those full skirts, overfull, are anachronistic, totally. By the early 1790's, the years of the Terror, skirts had become narrower with a ribbon below the bust, more Grecian style. Marie Antoinette started this style in the last years of her life.
Whoever wrote the music, such as Where's the Girl, has no knowledge or doesn't care about the style of composition at the end of the 18th century. Look at late Mozart, early Beethoven, Haydn! It's right there for the modern composer. Just adjust! The music is unbearably inappropriate to the period.