Emily's Musings

On no, not Emily!

Stumbled across this goofy operetta called Oh no not Emily! and now I'm completely hooked (and listening to the CD in iTunes)

"Oh No Not Emily" is a Gilbert & Sullivan-like operetta based very loosely on actual events. It is the story of Molly Writerblock, an aspiring poet, as she enters a graduate English program. There she meets another newcomer to the department who is attempting to sell a hitherto unknown original poem by Emily Dickinson. Add supportive parents, older, helpful grad students, an extremely knowledgeable professor and an unseen Dean who communicates entirely through memos, and you have the recipe for a show that will have your entire campus buzzing.

There are some great grad school lines. Plus, it has the classic "Yellow Rose of Emily" which sets Emily Dickinson poems to the tune of a Yellow Rose of Texas (because, as you know, almost all her poems can be sung to that tune)