qotd, what this summer has been like for me, so far.*
July 13, 2012
Dotty: And I take the sardines. No, I leave the sardines. No, I take the sardines.
Lloyd: You leave the sardines and you hang up the phone.
Dotty: Yes, right. I hang up the phone.
Lloyd: And you leave the sardines.
Dotty: I leave the sardines?
Lloyd: You leave the sardines.
Dotty: I hang up the phone and I leave the sardines?
Lloyd: Right!
Dotty: We've changed that, have we, dear?
Lloyd: No, dear...
Dotty: That's what I've always been doing?
Lloyd: I wouldn't say that, Dotty my precious.
Dotty: Well, how about the words, dear, am I getting some of them right?
Lloyd: Some of them have a very familiar ring.
-- from Noises Off!, which continues to be my favorite play/movie about theater, although the TV series Slings and Arrows is a close second.
* I'm Dotty, btw.
I loved that play. When Younger Son was in high school he worked backstage at a local repertory theater. For a few weeks, while that play happened to be on, I worked in the public library, which was in the lower level of the same building; we would ride together to *work*. Every evening there would seem to be herds of thundering elephants galloping through the theater overhead. When I eventually saw the play, I finally understood why.
Posted by: kmkat | July 13, 2012 at 08:37 PM
Oh how I adore Noises Off.
Posted by: Heidi | July 16, 2012 at 10:22 AM
If you are Dottie then who is Lloyd?
Posted by: Karen | July 16, 2012 at 07:32 PM
I'd like to say that Scott is Lloyd -- but he's not doing much better than I am w/r/t sardines.
Posted by: Adrienne | July 18, 2012 at 11:07 AM