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...course, inconvenient not to be able to fire a 21-gun salute when a foreign chief of state visits San José. But the Ticos have another way to do the honors: when a distinguished guest is expected, squads of schoolchildren are dispatched to the airport to sing songs of welcome...
...seems a bit much to bear until Pippin's grandmother, Berthe, provides the necessary comic relief. Berthe, played brilliantly by Thelam Carpenter, is a vivacious, sassy old lady who gets up to sing her jazzy number after excoriating the men's war games. "Men and their wars! Sometimes I think men raise flags when they can't get anything else...
...rings in the theme of the story. "No Time At All" is a spicy song, sung on the shoulders of "Berthe's Boys," a coterie of male dancers. A giant scroll bearing the lyrics is dropped from the roof of the theater, and Berthe waves briskly to the crowd, "Sing along now, one more time...
...mind. It is summarized in a provincial-government slogan: "De plus en plus en Québec, c 'est en français que ça se passe " (More and more in Quebec, it's in French that things are happening). Quebec has sprouted dozens of novelists, playwrights and chansonniers who sing their culture's praises?and bewail their unhappy history as a conquered people. One of the most popular plays in Quebec City, La Complainte des Hivers Rouges (The Red Winters' Lament), by Roland LePage, salutes the leaders of an abortive 1837 rebellion against the British with the lines...
...point, one of the male Monty Python members comes out on stage tackily dressed in a gold lame evening gown with cat's-eye spectacles. Adopting a feminine-sounding falsetto, he strikes up a paean to the virtues of Britishers: "The English have a quality/I'd like to sing about/It's not the sort of quality/That's bestowed on wog or kraut...