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Top of the Tree or Mr. Gilbert & the Unlikely Yankee
A Victorian Rock Opera for the Ages
The Prior & Peripheral Perils of Pauline!
Back story as comix....
all aboard The "Albion Ewe"....
"Kept in the Attic and Raised by a Dictionary, no habits or girlish past-times ordinary
just the dictionary,
from Zophonese to Antiquary"
Job Interview ToTT
Pauline's thrilling escape backstory!
An ingenious Plot is hatched, and Miss P. discovers misdirection and improvisation.
Angry and frightened, in her mind she goes to the only place she knows....the Dictionary!
Back in the past, in NYC, Pauline and her Baba have a rare moment unsupervised by Auntie Zia, who still wishes the child was more Italian. She has begun letting her come downstairs for meals, and has given her a book of Italian Art.
Suddenly, she gets an idea!
Allowed out for supervised visits to the Art Museum, Pauline's escape plan is put into action early!
"Well, Mother was supposed to have wed a mafioso, Grandmother told me; that's how I know so!
At sixteen they expected me to marry one too, so I got on board a ship and now here I am with you,
an Unlikely Yankee at this Job Interview" ToTT
Pauline shares her early history with the Gilberts, which explains some of her oddness...
Miss P. in
Glesga' City, early 1870's
Snack Break!
Gilbert and Pauline in: "Nutloaf and Trifle", or "Box and Cox"
What's so Special about Trial by Jury
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