So there was board overseer Glenn Hauman, chortling to a group of cyberfriends (including myself) about the big in-joke on “Angel” regarding “Corner of the sky.” At one point, a Wolfram and Hart partner states that this (W&H) is his little corner of the sky. Glenn found this hilarious. The rest of us stared through cyberspace at each other and didn’t get it, and Glenn didn’t elaborate.
Took me almost a whole day. Dang. I felt like Toby on “West Wing” bouncing the ball off the wall.
“Corner of the Sky” is a song from the musical “Pippin.” John Rubinstein played the character on “Angel” who made the comment. John Rubinstein originated the title role of “Pippin” on Broadway and sang that song.
Double dang. I’m losing my edge.
PAD
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I got the first part of the Pippen joke. But I had no clue that he orginated the part on Broadway. That is a great nod. I wonder if it was scripted or if he ad-libed it in?
John
SPOILER:
It was also how I knew Linwood Murrow was not long for this world. They got the joke in, no reason to keep him around as head…
SWISH! Right over my head. Missed that joke completely. The episode was very solid. There are a lot of good plotlines working and Cordy’s final line was great.
I read that one of the cast could possibly die. It’s too early for me to do anything more than just guess, although I do have an idea, which is probably wrong because Joss & co. are always going somewhere I never expected.
Bobby
Oops, I forgot Angel was on. Was it Sunday night? What happened? Did he get fished out from the bottom of the sea by some trawler and suddenly find himself speaking Vietnamese or something? No wait, that’s the other one, isn’t it.
I caught that one right away, as Pippin is one of my favorite musicals. I guessing George P
Beat ya to it.
Checked your link, Bill. If I’m reading your blog correctly, you posted it on Monday AM. Glenn made the observation on line before the episode was even over.
PAD
Well, yeah, but Glenn didn’t explain it. (And, actually, to be historically accurate: in my house when we were watching it, my wife Becky laughed first.)