Hollywood Hearts: That Lusty Month of May

My plan was to write a lovely piece about May Day.  It will have to wait until next year since May Day, the first day of May, has passed. I ran out of time dress shopping. Whoever invented spandex should do time, along with the men, it had to be men, who designed three-way mirrors and dresses with horizontal stripes.  After that escapade and feeling the need to loose 20 pounds in  less than a week for an event I'll attend, I arrived home to eat three fish sticks and a bag of nuked broccoli.  Only nineteen  pounds, 15.99 ounces to go.

So for Alternate Plan B, and an equally fine plan it is, here is Julie Andrews singing The Lusty Month of May from the musical Camelot.  Listen closely to the clever words by  lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pljyjiIMH9o and read along below.  Too wonderful!

                                          Julie Andrews and Richard Burton from Camelot
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GUENEVERE sings:
Tra la! It's May!
The lusty month of May!
That lovely month when ev'ryone goes
Blissfully astray.
Tra la! It's here!
That shocking time of year
When tons of wicked little thoughts
Merrily appear!
It's May! It's May!
That gorgeous holiday
When ev'ry maiden prays that her lad
Will be a cad!
It's mad! It's gay!
A libelous display!
Those dreary vows that ev'ryone takes,
Ev'ryone breaks.
Ev'ryone makes divine mistakes
The lusty month of May!

Whence this fragrance wafting through the air?
What sweet feelings does its scent transmute?
Whence this perfume floating ev'rywhere?
Don't you know it's that dear forbidden fruit!
Tra la la la la! That dear forbidden fruit!
Tra la la la la!

GUENEVERE & CHORUS:
Tra la la la la [etc.]

GUENEVERE:
Tra la! It's May!
The lusty month of May!
That darling month when ev'ryone throws
Self-control away.
It's time to do
A wretched thing or two,
And try to make each precious day
One you'll always rue!
It's May! It's May!
The month of "yes you may,"
The time for ev'ry frivolous whim,
Proper or "im."
It's wild! It's gay!
A blot in ev'ry way.
The birds and bees with all of their vast
Amorous past
Gaze at the human race aghast,
The lusty month of May.

CHORUS:
Tra la! It's May!
The lusty month of May!
That lovely month when ev'ryone goes
Blissfully astray.
Tra la! It's here!
That shocking time of year
When tons of wicked little thoughts
Merrily appear.
It's May! It's May!
The month of great dismay.

GUENEVERE:
When all the world is brimming with fun,
Wholesome or "un."

GUENEVERE & CHORUS:
It's mad! It's gay!
A libelous display!
Those dreary vows that ev'ryone takes,
Ev'ryone breaks.
Ev'ryone makes divine mistakes
The lusty month of May!

Lyrics from: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/camelot/thelustymonthofmay.htm

Off or Off-Off Broadway?

You hear about Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway, right?  I always figured it had to do with small or low budget productions or shows working on improving their plots and staging. These shows weren't ready for the main Broadway drag so were housed a few blocks away, in lesser-known theaters.  I was wrong.  It's all about seating capacity. If a theater has 100 to 499 seats, it's considered Off-Broadway.  If there are less than 100 seats, it's called Off-Off Broadway!