On Sun Dec 4, at SundayDec 4 9:00 PM, Mark D Lew wrote:

> The one thing I would say is unclear is where Darcy is quoted and it's not 
> immediately obvious where his words stop and mine begin.


The quoted text is blue in my document, but that didn't get preserved when I 
copied and pasted. No worries!

About your Ba-bel Bab-el thing, I would imagine that the singers would hear who 
sings it first, then pronounce it that way. Strangely, singers are very 
conformist that way. You might even have trouble getting them to sing it 
differently.


So high in my lovely Ivory Tower of Babel
high above the rabble 
(from the Prologue from "Godspell")


So they begat Cain
And they begat Abel,
Who begat the rabble
At the Tow'r of Babel.
(from The Begat from "Finian's Rainbow")

In both songs, the word is hypenated "Ba-bel" even though in the first instance 
it is clearly meant to rhyme with "rabble", which I think is a typo. The title 
in the score is even "Tower of Babble", another typo. Durned Broadway copyists! 
8-)

Christopher

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