Oh, Streetcar!
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Oh, Streetcar! is a musical version of Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire and was performed and produced in Springfield. It was directed by Llewellyn Sinclair and stared Marge Simpson as Blanche DuBois and Ned Flanders as Stanley Kowalski.
Production
In production of the play, Marge needed to get angry as part of her role but couldn't do it. She didn't have the will to smash a glass bottle. After getting angry at Homer, she perfected this role.
The Cast
Songs
Intro
- Llewellyn Sinclair:
- Perhaps we're all a little mad, we who don the cap and bells and tread beneath the proscenium arch. But tonight, you will all be transformed from dead-eyed suburbanites into white hot grease fires of pure entertainment!!! Except you, you're not working out, I'll be playing your part.
- Otto Man:
- Drag.
Long Before the Superdome
- Chief Wiggum:
- Long before the Superdome,
- Where the Saints of football play,
- Lived a city that the damned call home.
- Hear their hellish roundelay...
New Orleans
- Ensemble:
- New Or-le-ans,
- Home of pirates, drunks, and whores,
- New Or-le-ans,
- Tacky overpriced souvenir stores.
- If you want to go to Hell, you should take a trip
- To the Sodom and Gomorra on the Mississip.
- New Or-le-ans,
- Stinky, rotten, vomiting, vile,
- New Or-le-ans,
- Putrid, brackish, maggoty, foul.
- New Or-le-ans,
- Crummy, lousy, rancid, and rank,
- New Or-le-ans.
I Though My Life Would Be a Mardi Gras
- Woman:
- What's the matter, honey, are you lost?
- Marge:
- I'm lookin' for ma sister, Stella.
- Lisa:
- It's mom!
- Homer:
- Huh?
- Marge:
- Ma name is Blanche DuBois.
- I thought my life would be a Mardi Gras,
- A neverending party...
- Ha!
- I'm a faded southern dame
- Without a dime.
I am Just a Simple Paper Boy
- Apu:
- I'm collecting for The Evening Star.
- Marge:
- Come here, I wanna kiss you just once, softly and sweetly on your mouth.
- Apu:
- I am just a simple paper boy,
- No romance do I seek.
- I just wanted forty cents
- For my deliveries last week.
- Will this bewitching floozy
- Seduce this humble newsie?
- Oh, what's a a paper boy to...do?
- (she kisses him)
- Woo-hoo!
Stella!
- Ned Flanders:
- STELLA!!!
- STELLA!!!
- Can't you hear me yell-a?
- You're puttin' me through Hell-a?
- Stella, STELLA!!!!
She Flies
- (instrumental)
The Kindness of Strangers
- Marge:
- Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
- Ensemble:
- You can always depend on the kindness of strangers
- To pluck up your spirits and shield you from dangers.
- Marge:
- Now here's a tip from Blanche you won't regret.
- Cast:
- A stranger's just a friend you haven't met!
- You haven't met!
- STREETCAR!
Behind the Laughter
The songs for the show were composed by Alf Clausen and written by Jeff Martin. The song "New Orleans" gained a lot of controversy because of its lyrics portraying the city in a bad light. In response, in the following episode, Bart wrote on the chalkboard, "I will not defame New Orleans" as an apology.
Appearances
Episode – "A Streetcar Named Marge"