THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL Douglas Sills 'The Creation of Man'

[leahfisher]

I don't think I'll ever accept the fact that I'll never see this musical live. It literally keeps me up at night

[anomienormie]

Mans really said men are put on earth to be pretty 🦚🕺🦚🕺🦚🕺

[mosshart]

I caught this at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles a couple years after seeing Scarlet Pimpernel 1.0 on Broadway and this was probably my favorite revision of the entire experience. The 1.0 audiences enjoyed the original version of this number for sure, but we just HOWLED and CHEERED for this presentation. Douglas Sills was even more at home in his role and I have to say I never tire of seeing any footage from this show at any stage of its production.

[dropUrPeaches]

I was lucky enough to see a production of this at a university (and even that was years and years back), but I'm so bummed I never got to see Douglas Sills performing this live! It's a crime how little known this musical is.

[JamesBrown-ijpx]

This is a BRILLIANTLY written, choreographed, and performed number! One of my favorite performances in Broadway history!

[juliemckinney]

It was wonderful and Douglas Sills made that part

[Shaeniff]

I got to see this show on Broadway in its original version. I quite like the rewritten version (I've seen various iterations around 20 times). But no one beats Douglas Sills. I was working on my Pimpernel thesis at the time, so you'd better believe it was beyond my wildest expectations that we happened to run into Sills after the production. He warmed my hands. I could seriously have swooned. Having read all 12 books in the Pimpernel series plus an embarrassing amount of affiliated materials, I can safely say Sills is the most definitive Pimpernel I've seen. Baroness Orczy would be pleased. For one thing, he was over six tall. Her greatest disappointment about the casting in the original black and white movie was Chauvelin towered over little Percy. Not so with this rendition.

[losttail]

This was such a great show, and I can't imagine anyone other than Douglass Sills playing this role. Happy that you uploaded this footage!

[AStageForTheKingdom]

YEEESSS!!!! Thank you so much for uploading this! There is so little good footage of this show. If you have more, please share it! This is some of the best I've seen!

[DanielRuf]

Thanks Aurora, great footage. I thoroughly enjoyed the show on broadway, think it was Version 2.0 and it starred the divine Rachel York in the female lead. I remember this number vividly and to see it again on here is such a treat.

[ashareeoo]

Thank you for even more Scarlet Pimpernel 👏😭

[cuatez]

Thank you for posting this! I adore this show and love seeing what the original production(s) was(were) like. Cheers!

[marcmantell]

once again and again...Thank you for your posts!

[raynwise]

WOW thank you for posting this! I saw the national tour with Ron Bohmer in the lead and I absolutely adored it!! Thanks so much for bringing back fantastic memories of this wonderful show!!!!

[tymotekaitis]

Now I see where Stan Lee and all of the Comic Book Creators got their Superhero inspirations from🌹🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏼‍♂️

[MichMeister]

I wish they'd make a new "The Scarlet Pimpernel" movie, whether musical or not. Actor Jonathan Bailey would be perfect for the role and actress Emma Mackey would make an excellent Marguerite.

[Reposessor]

do you have any more of the scarlet pimpernel? this is a good recording

[introvertsounds]

Please do post moreany barrett wilbert weed stufffss thankssss

[seymourkrelborn]

I have an untraded bootleg that's not listed on any trading lists or circles, interested in a trade?

[cuatez]

Even though I'm a big fan of this show, the one thing that does irk me a bit is that a big part of the plot hangs on the main character coming off as effeminate in order to seem unthreatening. I get that this is needed to make the story work, but the way it's played for laughs feels kind of homophobic now. I still love the score and listen to it often, but I never fully shake that feeling.