Arizona Poppy

the urge to fit in

the urge to be loved

Edgar Wellington- her uncle on her mother's side. Mary Wellington- her mother's sister. Olive Wellington- their "beautiful" daughter.

Mr. Stinson did you completely misunderstand the book or did you do that on purpose and if the latter why.

Barney Snaith- a mysterious roustabout, rumoured to be a gigolo and felon.

Barney, a gigolo? XDDDDDD I did not see that coming, nor can I picture it.

Moving on:

Polish musical ✨

There are also some wild changes made there xD But I still enjoy it! It's really funny. Just not the closest adaptation you could imagine.

There is no Cissy. Or Mr. Frederick. Or looots of clan members.

Valancy (Polish name: Joanna) is an orphan. She's living with Cousin Stickles (here: Tekla) and Uncle Benjamin. They are married. Happily even.

The only other Stirlings are: Isabela. She is Olive's mother. Maybe someone didn't catch her name as Mary writing script and rolled with that. But there is also mention about her many chins. So maybe it's just frankenstein of Isabela and Mary I guess.

Olive. She is... herself. And Cousin Georgiana. She's also kinda herself.

Apart from that. Cecil exists. But his name is not Cecil. He is PARSIVAL. Why? I dunno.

There are also: Barney (Polish given name: Eddy), Abel, Redfern and (as I like to call him) Hot-Tap_Dancing-Postman!

There is whole tap dancing sequence when Hot-Tap_Dancing-Postman gives Joanna her letter from Dr. Trent (he exists as a recording) and they sing about what could be in this envelope and why wouldn't Joanna receive letters from some nice boy when she is so cool?? Delighful.

There is also no silver wedding dinner. All Stirlings gather to celebrate Joanna's birthday. Hurray! Tekla/Stickles guilt trip her about costs of a party. Boo.

Joanna just have enough of her family and go to work for Abel without any noble ideas for (absent here) Cissy. Just for money & freedom :D

There is no railway track scene, Trent just after year writes to Joanna another letter with something like "I was cleaning my desk and I saw I send you wrong letter before, Miss. But I saw you few days ago all so blooming near your husband and I believe you got to see another doctor and knew this for some time. Happy life! Sorry. XOXO"

Olive is (probably) ending as a Edward Beck's wife. Because all his storyline--

Because there is no Cissy there is no funeral. But writers wanted to somehow have proposal from Edward Beck (in Polish: freaking Rudolf Schulz). So at the very beggining of the show Cousin Georgiana just (as a birthday presents!) speak to all of the clan about how Rudolf Schulz would love to marry Doss! That he is proposing to her though her, as her relative. Joanna is like hell no, he's old and have gazillion children. Stirlings on the other hand: he has lots of money and tenement house in the market square!!! And not gazillion children, only a few. And three oldest daughters are in the marring age so they even don't count. You'll marry him, there's no other options for you, Doss! So Joanna escapes to work for Abel...

Before grande finale Olive is devastated. Parsivalis broke off their engagement. For who? For Beck/Schulz's eldest daughter! Because she has a larger dowry!

So what Cousin Georgiana propose after she can no longer tell Schulz about his and Doss' wedding? For Olive to catch him! Because he's now free! And rich! And she's also free! And poorer! Olive has objections about being mother-in-law to her ex-fiance but her mother is all in for this idea.

So even if we do not know how it ended per so. We know how Stirlings work. So please:

happy wishes to newlywed Mrs. Olive Schulz!

I still really love this show it's so camp please trust me! It only sounds like a hot mess!

I was able to find even some snippets! (which I downloaded some long time ago from stories of cast members)

Camera is looking away from them rather quickly but I hope you can feel this jolly energy <3

It moves to the second butler having fun backstage. Postman, when he don't delivers letters, is also a main butler in Stirling's house! Look how much fun they have when Uncles and Aunts are not looking xd:

And there is no Bollywood-like dance number at the end but it's still rather cheerful (look at them tapping stage in this kilts <33):

Magic is supposed to be a boon, but if you still have people hand milking cows who?? Is receiving the boon here?? Automated milking and pasteurisation spells please!! A quicker and less dangerous way, for both person and animal, to dock lambs than having to hold them under one arm and take a sharp knife to their tails with the other! Or even spells to remove the necessity of docking at all, if you insist it’s cruel and not good hygiene practice! A way to check eggs for blood in the yolk before cracking them both because yuck and because it’s prohibited in certain dietary practices! Venting mechanisms for industrial pipe work to prevent bursts! Safe disposal of waste!! WATER FILTRATION SYSTEMS IN URBAN CENTRES!! HOW INHUMANE TO NOT HAVE YOUR SEWAGE SYSTEM MANAGED BY MAGIC IF THAT IS WITHIN YOUR POWER!!