Barberous
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Is there a similar 'sun and moon' myth outside of the show?Random question. Is the 'sun and moon' metaphor of the show based on (or similar to) a pre-existing myth, something about the sun and the moon's doomed love because they cannot coexist together in the sky? (This is true poetically, if not scientifically.)
And while I'm asking random questions, at the end of 'The Heat Is On In Saigon', Gigi says something like "Take me to America" and a guy says "Shut up, b*tch." Is that John, or some other random soldier?
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Oli-Ol
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Not sure about your second question but there are several myths about the sun and moon arguing with each other and so not being able to coexist in the same sky. Can't remember any actual references but I think there was an egyptian one and an Indian opne and a korean one that I've read somehwere recently...
sorry not to be more help!
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jackrussell
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Re: Is there a similar 'sun and moon' myth outside of the sh | Barberous wrote: | | And while I'm asking random questions, at the end of 'The Heat Is On In Saigon', Gigi says something like "Take me to America" and a guy says "Shut up, b*tch." Is that John, or some other random soldier? |
I wouldn't swear to it, but if I recall correctly, it isn't John, just one of the company. I think it goes "Shut up b!tch. I don't want to hear it. I'm going to get a beer. Don't move."
Although he's far from perfect, I don't think John is ever made out to look quite that unsympathetic.
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Vanessa20
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I seem to remember hearing a story like that once, but it was long ago.
But the musical's "sun and moon" metaphor may also be inspired by the original libretto of Madame Butterfly. During Butterfly's love duet with Pinkerton, she compares herself to the moon goddess, and calls Pinkerton "the eye of the firmament," which translators often take to mean the sun.
(Ends shameless opera babble.)
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